I'm very excited to announce that Reconstructing Methodism: Crucial Issues Facing the Global Methodist Church will be released the first week of September. The book contains the talks from the Reconstructing Methodism Conference held this past April at Christ Church in Birmingham, Alabama. I'm deeply grateful to Bill Kierce, Jennie Lovell, and the team at Francis Asbury Press for prioritizing this project to make it available ahead of the Convening Conference coming up later in September in Costa Rica.
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From the Back Cover
The launch of the Global Methodist Church (GMC) did not come in a theological vacuum. Starting in 1972, the United Methodist Church (UMC), our predecessor, explicitly built its ecclesial house on the sandy foundation of theological pluralism, leading to its structural instability now expressed in schism. Its intent to house a broad range of theological perspectives proved unsustainable. This context clarifies one of many tasks that the GMC now faces. This new denomination must build its ecclesial house on a solid foundation marked by rigorous theology that will provide a strong basis for effective mission to our neighbors and the nations. We offer this book as a starting point for that task. Each chapter takes up a question characterized by some tension or debate in our earlier denominational life and offers theological shepherding regarding how the GMC might proceed.
Contributors
I'm particularly excited to have such a great line-up of contributors for this volume, including Bishop Scott Jones, Jason Vickers, Andrew Thompson, Madeline Carrasco Henners, Bill Arnold, Paul Lawler, Angela Pleasants, Chris Bounds, Chris Lohrstorfer, Dan McKee, and Douglas Sweeney. This book is only possible because of their diligent work offered in service to the Global Methodist Church.
Dr. Matt O’Reilly (Ph.D., Gloucestershire) is Lead Pastor of Christ Church in Birmingham, Alabama, Director of Research at Wesley Biblical Seminary, and a fellow of the Center for Pastor Theologians. A two-time recipient of the John Stott Award for Pastoral Engagement, he is the author of Paul and the Resurrected Body: Social Identity and Ethical Practice, The Letters to the Thessalonians, and Bless the Nations: A Devotional for Short-Term Missions. Connect at theologyproject.online and follow @mporeilly.
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