Write the Vision: The Church Renewed

by Wilbert R. Shenk

Write the The Church Renewed

Paperback

First published May 1, 1995

About the author

Dr. Wilbert R. Shenk, who is well known both as an international missiologist and as a specialist in the area of Anabaptism and Mission, has been the main speaker. He has edited a book with the same title, that is still a classic in this field. Until 2005 Shenk served as professor of mission history and contemporary culture at Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, California/USA. He lives in Elkhart, Indiana/USA. Dr. Peter F. Penner is Director of the Institute of Contextual Missiology at the International Baptist Theological Seminary (IBTS) where he has served since 2001 in different capacities. Prior to this, he was involved with the St. Petersburg Christian University (SPCU) in St. Petersburg, Russia six years as Rector and four years as Academic Dean as a missionary of the German Missionary Fellowship (Deutsche Missionsgemeinschaft). He is married to Katharina, who was actively involved at SPCU and presently continues to serve with him at IBTS. They have two children and live in Prague, Czech Republic.

Reviews

[Anieta · Rating 4 out of 5]

Write the Vision is an academic look at the question of the relationship between church and culture, how to "be in the world but not of the world" and maintain a missional message that reaches both individuals and cultures.

And while Shenk doesn't specifically answer that question, he provides a variety of lenses through which to view the question, and he does so with constructive criticism.

"One thing apears certain: when the church in the West is truly renewed, it will be a church with integrity and a clear sense of its mission to its own culture. The two elements are indivisible" (3).