Salt, Light, and a City, Second Edition

Foreword

“Salt, Light, and a City is no cloying attempt at a simplistic universal model for the missional church. Graham Hill insists we do the hard work of engaging Trinitarian theology, contemporary missiology, and broad understandings of ecclesiology to find a way forward. In brief, it is an invaluable addition to any library of research into the missional paradigm.”

Michael Frost

“If you want to know the theological conversation, and if you are tired (as I am) of everybody and her brother shooting up missional rockets that are supposed to solve all our problems (and don't), then Salt, Light, and a City will slow it all down to a genuine conversation with biblical foundations interacting with the major theologians and issues. This is the most important book I have ever read on the church and its mission. Graham Hill has a profound grasp of important theologians and he shows how each theologian contributes to a robust missional ecclesiology.”

Scot McKnight

“Graham Hill ranges far and wide in order to construct a viable ecumenical, but distinctly missional, ecclesiology. In so doing, he provides us with a classy, intelligent, and passionate contribution to one of the defining issues of our time.”

Alan Hirsch

“It is increasingly clear to me that Christian understandings of both the nature and the mission of the church are in considerable disarray today. Graham Hill's highly important book offers the beginnings of a profoundly important exploration of both questions, together. Salt, Light, and a City is a must-read.”

David P. Gushee

“Graham Hill writes from a Protestant evangelical perspective, but this is a broadly based study, drawing on insights from all the historic traditions as well as biblical understandings and case studies that highlight the experience of those who are operating on the missional edge today. This is a significant contribution to the ongoing discussions about missiology and ecclesiology that will take the conversation forward in creative and well-informed directions.”

John Drane

“Salt, Light, and a City is a global tour and an expounded select bibliography all in one package. Dealing with key traditions and themes, the book considers what can be said about mission and the church through key voices in the conversation. An array of angles and perspectives opens up the terrain. A helpful study indeed.”

Darrell L. Bock

“Like never before, the missional movement in the West needs a bigger, broader, and more inclusive dialogue. Missional churches everywhere need better theology lest they will devolve into mere pragmatics. This is the promise of Graham Hill's project Salt, Light, and a City: a bigger, broader, more inclusive and better missional theology for world Christianity as we come together to be churches in God's Mission in the days to come.”

David Fitch

“It is a theological imperative for students and practitioners of missional ecclesiology to have an ecumenical appreciation for the manifold expression of God's mission among the Body of Christ in the West. This book is one of the finest introductions to that task that you will find. Alongside the (forthcoming) second volume of this series, which centers on the thought and experience of non-Western and other marginalized voices, Hill is offering Western church leaders a resource of incomparable value as we seek a faithful witness to God's global mission.”

J.R. Rozko

“It is a meaningful experience to be a part of a tribe, but if our understanding of the nature and purpose of the church becomes tribal, it becomes limited. Graham Hill takes us to the mountaintop and gives us a breath-taking view of the global missional church. If you don't want to settle for a reductionistic understanding of the missional church, then pick up this book, and re-imagine what the church can be.”

J.R. Woodward