Child, Church, Mission

CHILD, CHURCH MISSION: INTER-CHRISTIAN PERSPECTIVES
This timely book fills a gap in the theological thinking about the Church and its mission. Most research on church and mission with a child in view tends to be denominational in character. Yet a child cannot be a denominational being, and in their work with children and young people Christians need to draw on theological and practical insights drawn from across the traditions of the Church. The author is an Eastern Orthodox theologian, and the book bears the marks of this tradition. Yet he writes from an inter-Christian perspective and so Christian leaders and organisations called to be alongside children in the name of Jesus will discover that it will enrich their work no matter which Christian tradition they belong to.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Valentin Kozhuharov is an Eastern Orthodox theologian who for a decade taught Christian theology and Christian Pedagogy in his native Bulgaria, then was a missionary with the UK's Church Mission Society. He spent seven years in Moscow teaching and doing inter-Christian mission work. Since then he has been a freelance lecturer, reviewer, dissertations' examiner and translator; member of a dozen Christian scholarly communities; author of nine books and more than 50 other scholarly research pieces; member of the Executive Committee of the International Association for Mission Studies (IAMS), Vice-chair of its Academic Committee and IAMS' representative for Europe.