OMSC Encounters Orthodoxy

Jennings, J. Nelson

doi:10.1177/239693931403800207

International Bulletin of Missionary Research

2014

DOI: 10.1177/239693931403800207

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OMSC Encounters Orthodoxy

J. Nelson Jennings

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Mission and Contexts

Jennings¹

2014

International Bulletin of Missionary Research

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A person's understanding of Christian mission-whether as evangelism, evangelization, witness, proclamation, prophetic dialogue, service, or whatever else-is inexorably intertwined with that person's context(s). Likewise with anyone's practice or reception of mission. The significance of context applies also to a whole people's understanding, practice, and reception of Christian mission. Our multifaceted settings shape how mission is conceived, conveyed, and caught.I do not anticipate much pushback from readers of the International Bulletin of Missionary Research on this claim. I would not be surprised, however, to find a range of viewpoints about the relative importance of the universal meaning of Christian mission versus contextually particular sensibilities about what mission involves.David Bosch persuasively demonstrated the point about mission's contextual particularity through tracing the way the church's understanding and practice of mission have been shaped by the various milieus in which it has carried out mission. In this issue of the IBMR, Volker Küster advocates "intercultural theology" as necessary to avoid truncated, contextually confined views of mission (or of anything else). Gloria Tseng brings to light "the historical peculiarities of the indigenization of Christianity in China during the early decades of the twentieth century."

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