The MATUL Commission - a global cadre of educational practitioner-scholars

Leadership development among the 1.4 billion urban poor

Integrating and publishing new fields: urban poor church- planting; theology of land rights; economic discipleship...

Pioneering paradigms of city leadership

Commentary on Faith Integration - Viv Grigg Portfolio

This portfolio discusses four decades of work establishing a new academic domain of Urban Poor Missiology, and responds to a request to review the faith integration dynamics within that process. For evaluators it is likely easier to download the Word doc version for review, then follow links on the website.

1. Estabishing a New Domain

Lifestyle and Values of Servants.jpgThis portfolio discusses four decades of work establishing a new domain of Urban Poor Missiology, and the faith integration dynamics within that process.
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2. Six Paradigms, Six Artifacts

Companion to the Poor.jpgThe reflections are based around six artifacts: a monograph, two books, one of several new fields of knowledge, the creation of a global Commission ...

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3. Differentiating the Domain

The Spirit of Christ and Postmodern CityDeveloping a Domain of Knowledge draws from parallel and overlapping domains.  Is there adequate basis for defining Urban Poor Misssiology as a new domain?
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4. Creating New Theologies

Transformational ConversationsDevelopment of a new missiological paradigm for theological engagement with urban issues. Based on processes refined in over 30 city consultations with city leaders and urban poor workers, this is interfaced with a theory of "knowledge as webs" to generate a process that has been used by urban workers as a research paradigm...

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5. Conclusions

Has the discussion adequately demonstrated the formation of a domain? Has it demonstrated professional skills of faith integration at a professorial level? ...

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Urban Discontinuity -> Action -> Reflection -> Publishing ->Training -> Transformational Movements

Designing, delivering, multiplying the academic fields that underlie the flourishing of multiplication of urban poor movements for transformation.