Theology of missions

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Theology of Missions

Introduction

The introduction will briefly define what mission theology is and then proceeds to examine five of its essential characteristics: mission theology seeks to be multidisciplinary, integrative, definitional, analytical, and truthful. For the past thirty years mission theology has taken a backseat to mission practice, which, after the two world wars and particularly in the 1960s, began to borrow heavily from the social sciences: sociology, anthropology, linguistics, economics, politics, statistics, sociology of religion, and so forth. Whether Roman Catholic, Orthodox, conciliar, evangelical, or Pentecostal/charismatic, the major missiological agendas that dominated the scene after the early 1960s dealt primarily with the strategy and practice of mission.

Regardless of the theological tradition, missiology concerned itself with a host of activist issues and agendas like the role of the church (its clergy, structures, and members) in the mission enterprise, relevant economic and sociopolitical action, liberation, evangelism, church growth, relief and development, Bible translation, theological education, mission-church partnerships, church-to-church sharing of resources, dialogue with people of other faiths, and the relation of faith and culture . Unfortunately, in the midst of such busy global activism, the deeper questions of mission theology were too seldom asked. During the last ten years this has begun to change, and people of all theological stripes in mission today are reexamining theological presuppositions that underlie the mission enterprise.

Discussion

At the end of the 20th century about a third of the world's population belongs to one of the factions of the Christian religion. Christians are the religious community in the most extensive and diverse, and have churches in many nations of the world. Sign of the dynamism of the Christian religion is beyond the demographic center of Christianity from Western countries to Latin America , Africa , Asia and the region of the Pacific , where more than half of Christians living in the world. This trend has accelerated due to the damping effect of the Christian establishments in Europe. Christianity, a religion universal, religion is for people facing different nations and different classes, could spread to many places due to the method of the mission.

The term "mission" comes from the Latin verb "mittere" meaning to send. Hence the word mission carries with it the idea of "submission", "delegation", "order received". We can also relate to its Greek equivalent "apostello" from which comes the word apostle. This idea of "shipped" it is present in the Old Testament to refer to those whom God chooses and sends (for this we used the Hebrew term "saliah"). This "submission" is not understood in a geographical sense, but neither exclude, but in the theological sense. New Testament - second, after the Old Testament , part of the Bible, Christian , developed over 51-96 AD, a collection of 27 books, depicting events from the life of Jesus and the early Church and the instruction addressed to Christian communities, traditionally dated to the second half -century , some biblical scholars date the books is also part of the first half of the ...