[Ministry, Mission, And Money: The Role of Money and Its Impact on the Church And Her Mission]
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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CHAPTER 2: CHANGING MISSION, GLOBAL FLOWS AND CHRISTIAN MOVEMENTS1
Global developments 1910-20102
Different globalizations3
Global divisions and local identities5
World religions and indigenous spiritualities7
Contemporary trends in world Christianity10
Independent Christian movements10
Christian migration12
Christian plurality16
Changing mission17
Mission as contextual17
The pneumatological paradigm20
The church as dynamic23
Christian influence and the global future26
CHAPTER 3: GOD'S MISSION IN CHRIST'S WAY28
Recovering the vertical element of Christian spirituality29
Ecclesiology and mission - beyond integration31
Gospel and cultures - revisit syncretism and the dialogue on world views32
Creative interface between Christ and Spirit38
Towards a Wisdom-shaped mission40
CHAPTER 4: GOD'S MISSION AS PRAXIS FOR HEALING AND RECONCILIATION47
The missional church and its missionary praxis49
God's mission as praxis of healing52
Reconciling mission and mission as reconciliation58
END NOTES66
CHAPTER 2: CHANGING MISSION, GLOBAL FLOWS AND CHRISTIAN MOVEMENTS
Since Christianity is a world religion, changes in worldwide Christianity both reflect and affect global affairs and transnational issues. From its inception the IRM has demonstrated this in its holistic approach and global scope. In its pages are developments in the global landscape over the last one hundred years, although with significant shifts in the contributors. These developments include the breakdown of imperial Christendom and the rise of the present world order, how the people of the world are described and relate to one another, and the configuration of religions. Three trends in world Christianity impinge on contemporary mission: the rise of independent Christian movements and the migration of Christians result in an ever-increasing plurality of Christian expression. In view of this, this article argues that mission should be contextual, mission theology expressed in pneumatological terms, and the church understood as a dynamic movement [33].
Christianity is and always has been a world religion - globally widespread, locally rooted and interconnected. Changes in worldwide Christianity, therefore, are often closely related to global affairs and transnational issues. The Christian movement sometimes follows and sometimes leads world developments but it is never separable from them. The IRM, by its nature as a world missionary journal, represents the interrelation of the Christian movement with global affairs. Preceding Edinburgh 1910 was a thorough research project, based on reports from all over the world, which described missionary activity and responses to it. It considered not only the numbers converting to Christianity and church life but also wider social changes and political trends. Over the last one hundred years the IRM has continued this holistic approach and global scope.
Global developments 1910-2010
Around the centenary of the World Missionary Conference, the IRM carried preparatory articles related to a new study process, Edinburgh 2010, which produced ...