The Anglican Mission in America (AMiA) Theological Vision serves to connect and enable the Society to achieve our vision and purpose. It expresses a clear and comprehensive balance between beliefs and behaviors, outlining and describing who we are, what we do and how we do this together.

What is a Theological Vision?

In his book Center Church, Tim Keller suggests that churches and organizations create statements that lean too much toward doctrine (orthodoxy) or too much toward practice (orthopraxy). He says something is missing between our “hardware” (theological foundation) and our software (ministry practice). We need a “middleware.”

Middleware is the general technical term used to describe a system that connects different or otherwise separate applications or components together. That “middleware” for the Church is what Keller calls a “theological vision for ministry.” He defines a theological vision as a “faithful restatement of the gospel with rich implication for life, ministry and mission in a type of culture at a moment in history.”

The Anglican Mission Theological Vision is organized in seven sections: