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At the edge of the urban sprawl, exurban communities are experiencing rapid growth and change. Longtime residents of rural heritage collide with newcomers from urban and suburban backgrounds. This creates a place of conflicting ideologies and distrust. Many ecclesial models have been imported to and utilized in exurbia; however, there has been little written about what a theologically and contextually faithful ecclesiology for exurbia looks like. In this paper, Mount Airy, Maryland is studied as a prototypical exurban town in order to assess various ecclesial models in light of the unique characteristics of the exurban context and a missional theological framework built upon the principles of embodiment of mission, engagement in acts of mission, proclamation of mission, peacemaking, and relationship with culture. This paper shows that incarnational ecclesial forms are integral to a missionally and contextually faithful expression of church within Mount Airy specifically, and exurbia generally.
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KeywordsUrban, Rural, Exurbia, Ecclesiology, Missional, Missio Dei, Maryland
Degree AwardedD.Min.
Awarding InstitutionNazarene Theological Seminary
Supervisor or ChairAlexia Salvatierra
Peer Reviewed?No
Pages154
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