Mission in the Twenty-First Century: Exploring the Five Marks of Global Mission

by Andrew Walls (Editor), Cathy Ross (Editor)

Overview

Aimed at both practitioners and church leaders as well as academics and students of missiology, Mission in the 21st Century: Exploring the Five Marks of Global Mission offers fresh insights into the theology and the everyday practice of mission. It brings together scholarly reflection and praxis for the reflective practitioner. Contributors, predominantly from the Majority World, write on the Five Marks from their contexts and bring ideas gained from their own experience for application by those engaging in mission anywhere. The book includes both case studies and stories to ground this application. Mission in the 21st Century has global relevance as a resource for churches seeking to equip themselves for mission in our turbulent world.

About the Author:
Andrew F. Walls, is currently Honorary Professor in the University of Edinburgh and a regular visiting professor at the Akrofi-Christaller Institute of Theology, Mission and Culture in Ghana. He is founding editor of the Journal of Religion in Africa

About the Author:
Cathy Ross works for the Church Mission Society in Oxford where she oversees the Crowther Centre for Mission Education. She is also J.V. Taylor Fellow in Missiology at the University of Oxford

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781570757730
Publisher:	Orbis Books
Publication date:	05/28/2008
Pages:	219
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.70(d)

Table of Contents

Contributors     vii
Foreword   Rowan Williams     xi
Introduction: Taonga   Cathy Ross     xiii
The Five Marks of Mission     1
To Proclaim the Good News of the Kingdom
Ken Gnanakan     3
D. Zac Niringiye     11
To Teach, Baptise, and Nurture New Believers
Emmanuel Egbunu     25
Ande Titre     37
To Respond to Human Need by Loving Service
Melba Maggay     46
Haami Chapman     53
To Seek to Transform Unjust Structures of Society
Valdir Raul Steuernagel     62
Bev Haddad     77
To Strive to Safeguard the Integrity of Creation and Sustain and Renew the Life of the Earth
Calvin B. deWitt     84
Dave Bookless     94
Issues in Mission     105
'Whose Religion is Christianity?' Reflections on Opportunities and Challenges in Christian Theological Scholarship: The African Dimension   Kwame Bediako     107
Migration and Mission: The Religious Significance of the North-South Divide   Jehu J. Hanciles     118
The Church and its Missionary Vocation: The Islamic Frontline in a Post-Christian West   Lamin Sanneh     130
Reading the Bible in the Non-Western Church: An Asian Dimension   Moonjang Lee     148
Worship is Nothing but Mission: A Reflection on Some Japanese Experiences   Ken Christoph Miyamoto     157
Education as Mission: Perspectives on Some New Opportunities   Gerald J. Pillay     165
Discipleship: Marked for Mission   Tim Dakin     175
Afterword: Christian Mission in a Five-hundred-year Context   Andrew F. Walls     193
Notes     205