An Emerging Paradigm for Mission

Bosch, David J.

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“…This comment highlights exactly the difficulty faced by students of African Independent Churches, or, as I prefer to call them, African Initiated Churches (henceforth, AICs). 2 The ten dency is to start with presuppositions drawn from one particular African country and then to apply them in sweeping generaliza tions for the rest of the continent. Over time, however, as knowl edge of these churches increases, many exceptions are discov ered.…”

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Recasting Theology of Mission: Impulses from the Non-Western World

Shenk¹

2001

International Bulletin of Missionary Research

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D avid J. Bosch completed writing his magisterial Transforming Mission: Paradigm Shifts in the Theology of Mission in 1990. 1 Although Bosch intimated in articles in 1983and 1984that new, non-Western patterns and paradigms wereemerg ing,2 in Transforming Mission he worked out his analysis within the framework of the missionary movement from the Western Christian tradition. The last third of Transforming Mission is a study of the way the logic of "mission in the wake of the Enlightenment" has been played out as an essentially Western initiative.The past decade has proved to be pivotal in geopolitical terms. Along with the end of the cold war and the globalization of the world economy, a sea change in the locus of Christian initiative has taken place. Churches in Asia, Africa, and Latin America are now sending thousands of missionaries to other regions and countries, while the decline and disorientation of the churches in the West is a matter of mounting concern. Today the West presents a particularly demanding missiological challenge.Recent surveys of mission theology reveal the continued domination of Western voices, with no discernible shift during the 1990s. 3 Western theology of mission has continued on an essentially unchanged trajectory. Even recent initiatives to de velop a theology that engages contemporary Western culture as A vital theology of mission flows from a missionary engagement of culture. a missionary frontier-an urgent priority-have been signifi cantly stymied by the historical burden of the Western theologi cal tradition.Since the Christian majority is now to be found outside the West and missionary initiatives from the churches of Asia, Africa, and Latin America are at the cutting edge of the Christian world mission, we must ask: What kind of theology of mission will best serve the global Christian mission in the future? What fresh theological resources can be brought to bear on this new phase of the Christian mission? It is time to listen to voices from the non-Western world that can help construct a theology ca pable of empowering the global church for participation in the missio Dei.My thesis is that (1) a dynamic theology of mission develops where there is vigorous engagement of culture by the Gospel, accompanied by critical reflection on that process; that (2) this process is decisive for shaping Christian identity; and that there fore (3) we must look to the evolving Christian movement in Asia, Africa, and Latin America to discern defining themes. Although various scholars have argued for the term "missionary

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Recasting Theology of Mission: Impulses from the Non-Western World

Shenk¹

2001

International Bulletin of Missionary Research

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“…Flemming concurs, affirming that it is “how the gospel revealed in Scripture authentically comes to life in each new culture” (2005: 13–14). It is not simply indigenization, rather, it “suggests a far more comprehensive and profound process of accommodating the gospel to the total life of a people” (Bosch, 1983: 495). Haleblian broadens the scope, describing contextualization as “that discipline which deals with the essential nature of the gospel, its cross-cultural communication and the development and fostering of local theologies and indigenous church forms (1983: 97).…”

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Contextualization is complicated: A case study of contextualized worship arts in Mozambique

Meyers

2016

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The enormous demographic change of Christianity worldwide is forcing a reexamination of basic questions about Christian identity and the relation of local Christian communities to other Christian groups and traditions. Christianity has been both an agent and a product of the flattening and shrinking of the world. What are the implications of globalization for contextualized worship arts? Through an ethnographic study of 12 urban churches, conducted from 2012 to 2014 in Beira, Mozambique, this article explores the challenges of globalization for developing contextualized worship arts.

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The Family of God: An Ecclesial Model for HIV Prevention in Africa

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Meme²

2008

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The traditional means of forming human identity and shaping moral values within traditional African communities have been undermined by a Western philosophical presupposition: the conception of the self as an individual, autonomous agent. Through the forces of colonization and globalization, this conception of the self has undermined the processes of identity formation that have traditionally taken place in African communities, creating a profoundly disturbing loss of moral identity among urban youth. We will argue that efforts at HIV prevention must address this issue. Specifically, we will propose the ecclesial model, “the family of God,” as a means for promoting HIV prevention.

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An Emerging Paradigm for Mission

Cited by 4 publications

References 6 publications

Recasting Theology of Mission: Impulses from the Non-Western World

Recasting Theology of Mission: Impulses from the Non-Western World

Contextualization is complicated: A case study of contextualized worship arts in Mozambique

The Family of God: An Ecclesial Model for HIV Prevention in Africa

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