Alan Hirsch

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Alan Hirsch (2006)

Alan Hirsch (born October 24, 1959 in Johannesburg , South Africa ) is a South African theologian, author, church planter, pastor and missionary scholar. He is counted among the leading figures of the worldwide movement of the emerging church .

Life

Hirsch grew up in a Jewish family in Johannesburg and Cape Town . He served two years in the South African Army and then studied economics and marketing in Cape Town. In 1983 he moved with his family to Australia , where he met Christians and converted to Christianity. He attended the Australian College of Theology (ACT) . After graduating in 1989, he and his wife Debra accepted an offer from the South Melbourne Church of Christ . This church was renamed the South Melbourne Restoration Community by them . Hirsch and his wife led this fellowship for 15 years until 2004. In 1994 he also became director of the “Mission, Education and Development” department of the Churches of Christ in Australia (Victoria and Tasmania Conference) . He then began church planting among the poor and disadvantaged people of Melbourne . In his book The Forgotten Ways , he described this mission, incarnation, and community process. Hirsch also founded the Forge Mission Training Network training school to deepen and apply this new type of mission and church planting work, which is heavily based on the New Testament , especially the Acts of the Apostles . He is a co-founder of the Missional Church Building program at Wheaton College near Chicago. He is also an associate professor at Fuller Theological Seminary , George Fox Seminary and other universities in the US, Europe and Australia. He is editor of the Baker Books series Shapevine and IVP line Forge and co-editor of Leadership Journal .

criticism

As a representative of the emerging church movement, Hirsch has been criticized negatively, especially by conservative evangelicals .

Works

In English

  • The Forgotten Ways: Reactivating the Missional Church. 2006
  • with Darryn Altclass: The Forgotten Ways Handbook: A Practical Guide for Developing Missional Churches. 2009
  • with Michael Frost: ReJesus: A Wild Messiah for a Missional Church. 2009
  • with Debra Hirsch: Untamed: Reactivating a Missional Form of Discipleship. 2010
  • with Lance Ford: Right Here Right Now: Everyday Mission for Everyday People. 2011
  • with Dave Ferguson: On the Verge: The Future of the Church as Apostolic Movement. 2011
  • with Michael Frost: The Faith of Leap: Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage. 2011
  • with Tim Catchim and Mike Breen: The Permanent Revolution: Apostolic Imagination and Practice for the 21st Century Church. 2012

In German translation

  • With Michael Frost: Shaping the Future: Innovation and Evangelism in the Church of the 21st Century. C & P Verlagsgesellschaft 2008. ISBN 978-3-86770-077-1 (Original title: The Shaping of the Things to Come: Innovation and Mission for the 21st-Century Church )
  • The Wild Messiah: Mission and Church redesigned by Jesus. edition novavox 1. Neufeld , Schwarzenfeld 2010. ISBN 978-3-937896-75-5 . (Original title: A Wild Messiah for a Missional Church )
  • Forgotten Ways: The Rediscovery of the Church's Missional Power. Neufeld, Schwarzenfeld 2011. ISBN 978-3-86256-025-7 (Original title: The Forgotten Ways: Reactivating the Missional Church )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Forge International . Retrieved August 2, 2014.
  2. ↑ Missional church movement on www.wheaton.edu ( Memento of 8 August 2014 Internet Archive ). Retrieved August 2, 2014.
  3. ↑ Alan Hirsch's website at www.theforgottenways.org . Retrieved August 2, 2014.
  4. ↑ Rudolf Ebertshäuser's criticism of Alan Hirsch and his work Forgotten Paths ( Memento of the original from August 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.das-wort-der-wahrheit.de
  5. ↑ Phil Mertens' blog post on Alan Hirsch
  6. ↑ Alan Hirsch at Neufeld-Verlag  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved August 2, 2014.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.neufeld-verlag.de  
personal data
SURNAME Hirsch, Alan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African theologian, pastor, church planter, mission scientist, and author
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Johannesburg , South Africa