Date of Award
2018
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Doctor of Ministry (DMin)
First Advisor
Alvin Luedke
Second Advisor
Daniel Anderson
Abstract
This mixed method Action Research project sought to answer the question: How might an AR intervention involving engaging Scripture playfully expand missional imagination? The study documented play in the engagement of Scripture within worship services, Bible study, and board meeting devotions. Appreciative Inquiry interviews and a congregational event provided insight into the growth of missional imagination in this congregation. Lenses employed include those of the theology of play, narrative imagination, the Bible as metanarrative, the creative Word made flesh, playful passages, and participation in the perichoretic relationship of the triune God. Missional leadership is imagined as perichoretic play.
Recommended Citation
Nye, Sarah Birkedal, "The Spirit's Playground: How God Speaks Through Scripture to Develop Contagious Missional Imagination" (2018). Doctor of Ministry Theses. 42.
https://digitalcommons.luthersem.edu/dmin_theses/42