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

This portfolio discusses four decades of work establishing a new domain of Urban Poor Missiology, and the faith integration dynamics within that process.

2. Six Paradigms, Six Artifacts

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

3. Differentiating the Domain

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

4. Creating New Theologies

Transformational Conversations Development 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..

5. Conclusions

A field of knowledge of ten principles of Biblical Economics developed from 35 years work in the slums are applied to national economic issues in New Zealand in a book, Kiwinomics; applied to the slums in an economicdiscipleship.org site of podcasts for oral learners; multiplied through graduate students to many churches...