TRANSFORMED IMAGINARIES: NETWORKED INTEGRAL MISSION
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14860372Keywords:
Missiology, theological imagination, socio-technical imaginary, integral mission, marginalityAbstract
Transformed Imaginaries: Networked Integral Mission.
The church talks a great deal about transformation but often seems unsure about what precisely its end goal should look like. In imagining a new order, God’s kingdom come, it is sometimes rather vague about how it might get there. Our unequal world is still crying out for good news, for the church to fulfill its calling. Imagination is key to our ability as a church to hear and understand scripture and live out the gospel – but how do we examine and interrogate it? This article proposes that a sociotechnical imaginary can be a useful paradigm in our efforts to understand imagination and embody its imaginings. It will also set out a situated understanding of transformation as a method of integral mission with radically different implications for the privileged and the oppressed and offer a possible vision of a gospel-imagined end state towards which we might direct our course.
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