Slum Dwellers' Theology: Pedagogy in the Slums: Volume 1 (Slum Dwellers' Pedagogy)

1.4 Billion slum-dwellers. Thousands of movements of churches among them. Very spiritual churches! Yet needing to understand the Gospel of the Kingdom of God and how it impacts poverty, injustice, education, health care, environment, land rights... For twenty years a cluster of activist theologians have worked together globally to develop the MA in Transformational Urban Leadership training slum leaders in holistic theology. A domain of knowledge, Urban Poor Missiology, has developed. A style of education, or pedagogy, based on story-telling, contextual analysis, and action-reflection has emerged that includes 23 areas of knowledge. These ideas have also developed through grassroots Slum Leaders' Learning Networks. This book is a call to now scale up these ideas, multiplying Learning Networks and developing Urban Leadership Institutes in the mega-cities for both sum leaders and policy makers who can change the structures that cause the poverty of the slums. Dr Viv Grigg has pioneered movements in multiple cities among the urban poor, and written paradigm-forming books about incarnational mission in the slums, church-planting among the urban poor, apostolic orders, transformative citywide revival, theology of land rights and city leadership.