Foundations for Mission

by Emma Wild-Wood (Editor), Peniel Rajkumar (Editor)

Overview

This volume provides an important resource for those wishing to gain an overview of significant issues in contemporary missiology whilst understanding how they are applied in particular contexts. Contributors from across the globe and from different Christian traditions explore foundations for mission. The chapters examine in what ways experience, the Bible, and theology are foundational for mission and how they together inform the missional thought of different traditions. The book also raises questions about the continued use of foundations as a helpful metaphor mission reflection and impetus. Graduate students and scholars surveying the field will find this a useful and accessible way to understand changing trends within mission studies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781912343270
Publisher:	Regnum Studies in Mission
Publication date:	01/01/2013
Series:	Edinburgh Centenary , #13
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	331
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Emma Wild-Wood is Director of the Henry Martyn Centre for the study of Mission and World Christianity, Cambridge. Previously she taught in Congo and Uganda. She has written on East African Christianity.

Peniel Rajkumar is Associate Professor in the Department of Theology and Ethics at the United Theological College, Bangalore. He has written on Dalit theology.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Exploring Foundations for Mission Emma Wild-Wood Peniel Rajkumar 3

Part 1 Exploring Experience as a Foundation for Mission

The Restless Result Between 'Is' and 'Ought' Janice Price Anne Richards 17

When Margins Inform and Re-form Mission Deenabandhu Manchala Peniel Rajkumar Dayam Joseph Prabhakar 30

The Importance of Historical Inquiry in Mission Beverly Eileen Mitchell 43

Mission as Testifying to the Experience of Meeting with God Zlatina Karavaltcheva 55

Part 2 Exploring the Bible as a Foundation for Mission

Towards a Missiology Inspired by the Book of Proverbs Jacques Matthey 69

Biblical Foundations for Liberative Mission from Latin America Néstor Míguez 85

The Bible in and through Mission and Mission in the Bible in Postcolonial Africa R. Simangaliso Kumalo 96

The Biblical Foundation for Mission from a Middle Eastern Experience Mary Mikhael 111

Part 3 Exploring Theology as a Foundation for Mission

Christology and Trinity in Mission Damon W K So 123

The Spirit in Mission Christina Manohar 138

A Theology of Mission from an Orthodox Perspective Petros Vassiliadis 154

Creation and Kingdom-Centered Theology for Missio Inter-Gentes Edmund Kee-Fook Chia 163

Part 4 The Bible, Theology and Experience Together

Roman Catholic Perspectives on Foundations for Mission Robert Schreiter 179

A Missiology of Listening for a Folk Church in a Postmodern Context Mogens Mogensen 190

Foundations for Mission in a Movement of World Evangelization Harold Segura Valdir Steuernagel 205

The Theological Motivations for Pentecostal Mission Wonsuk Ma 220

Conclusion: Setting Sail for the Future Emma Wild-Wood Peniel Rajkumar 239

Appendices

Appendix 1 'Theme 1: Foundations for Mission' in Daryl Balia and Kirsteen Kim (eds), Edinburgh 2010: Witnessing Today (Oxford: Regnum, 2010) 255

Appendix 2 'Theme 1: Foundations for Mission,' in Kirsteen Kim and Andrew Anderson (eds), Edinburgh 2010: Mission Today and Tomorrow (Oxford: Regnum, 2011) 283

Bibliography 291

List of Contributors 305