The answer to Tony's question is that the book available for $38 in the States is Resurrection and Discipleship, the earlier and larger book by Lorenzen. It's also the one from which Graeme quotes.
The one shown on the right is the book I quoted from (Stuart's copy which I'm still clutching) which expands on the earlier sections on Discipleship and Justice. And it is indeed expensive wherever it's for sale - the $21.95 one on Amazon is from a US seller who doesn't so international shipping.
"The cross unmasks the world as the "world" - bereft of love and therefore of God, driven by selfishness, self-interest and violence. Where the "world" remained true to itself by fording Jesus to the cross, God remained true to God's self. God, being love, identified with the victim, took the crucified one onto God's own being, and thereby created new life out of death. The violence of the world was transfigured into a new ontology; the ontology of justice. That means that at the center of life, in the foundation of being, there is not nothing, but God; there is not violence but nonviolence; there is not war but peace; there is not hatred but love." (page 79-80)
Now I have issues with the term "missional". Far too agenda driven, dominating, smacking of ideological imperialism and conquest or control seeking. For Christians the preferred and New testament term is "witness". And that last sentence about what is at the center of life is as comprehensive, challenging and attractive as any statement of the church's call to witness as I know. And if nonviolence, peace and love were further up the agendas of Baptist communities we might be able to stop agonising about models and methods of mission and start affirming the models and methods of the God revealed in Christ - peace-making, reconciliation, love, the grace of generosity and the generosity of grace. Or so it seems to this baptist with a small b, or to this small baptist :)
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