Download or read book Community of Missionary Disciples: The Continuing Creation of the Church written by Stephen Bevans and published by American Society of Missiology. This book was released on 2024-09-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive book on ecclesiology from a mission perspective - a kind of ecclesiological companion to Constants in Context. The book unpacks Vatican II's statement that the church is "missionary by its very nature" and addresses the author's insight that the church is never "founded" once and for all, but is continually called into being by God's mission across time and place.