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Niemandt, CJP. "Ontluikende kerke – ‘n nuwe missionêre beweging. Deel 1: Ontluikende kerke as prototipes van ’n nuwe missionêre kerk." Verbum et Ecclesia 28, no. 2 (2007): 542–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/ve.v28i2.121.

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The article describes Emerging Churches as a 21st century phenomenon. Emerging churches are not a new denomination, but are experimental forms of church life, found in all denominations; formulating and living Christian faith in a post-modern world. The importance of emerging churches is that they serve as risk-taking prototypes, researching ways of being a relevant church and expressing faith in a current language. Serving older churches with new insights which they can consider. They are a new expression of church. Emerging churches should be understood in terms of their strong missional ori

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Phan, Peter C. "Teaching Missiology in and for World Christianity: Content and Method." International Bulletin of Mission Research 42, no. 4 (2018): 358–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2396939318775265.

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The article begins with a brief definition of “World Christianity” and elaborates three theses for conceiving the relationship between missiology and theology, the understanding and practice of Christian missions, and the teaching of missiology. I argue that outside missiology there is no theology. I also reject the separation between church history and missiology, the division between the historic churches of the West and the “mission lands” of the rest, and a narrow focus of the goal of Christian missions on conversion and church-planting. Finally, I recommend a shift from “church history” t

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Lewier, Bayanangky Alexander, and Agustinus M. L. Batlajery. "Studi Eklesiologi GPI Papua Dan GPIB." ARUMBAE: Jurnal Ilmiah Teologi dan Studi Agama 1, no. 1 (2019): 60–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.37429/arumbae.v1i1.182.

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The aim of this article is to explore how the Protestant Church in Papua (GPI-Papua) and the Protestant Church at West Indonesia (GPIB) run their mission in the world. As representatives of the church on the earth, both churches carry the same mission. As the church they are called and sent by God to fulfill their duty which is to serve the world. The method developed in this study is the document study which mneans that the study focuses on some important documents of these churches. This study found out that the presbyterial-sinodal system which is adopted by the GPI-Papua and GPIB will crea

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Cronshaw, Darren. "Missio Dei Is Missio Trinitas: Sharing the Whole Life of God, Father, Son and Spirit." Mission Studies 37, no. 1 (2020): 119–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15733831-12341699.

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Abstract Missio Dei (“the mission of God”), and grounding the mission of the church in the character of God as a missionary God, is one of the most important theological (re-)discoveries of the twentieth-century. The concept is limited, however, if focused on one aspect of God as sending God, model of incarnational mission or empowerment for mission. This article argues that missio Dei is missio Trinitas (“the mission of the Trinity”). It explores the richness of missio Dei from an explicitly trinitarian perspective and its implications for local congregations, in conversation with missional c

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Rooy, Sidney H. "The Latin American Council of Churches and Missions: an Historical Approach." Mission Studies 20, no. 1 (2003): 112–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157338303x00070.

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AbstractIn this article, Sidney H. Rooy chronicles the development of the Latin American Council of Churches (CLAI) up to and including its 2001 Assembly in Baranquilla, Colombia. This organization, the author explains, understands the church's mission as rooted in the mission of God as such. Because of this, mission is not only about individual conversion and church-centered concerns, but about witnessing to justice in the world and peace and reconciliation among peoples.

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Stevanus, Kalis, and Yunianto Yunianto. "Misi Gereja Dalam Realitas Sosial Indonesia Masa Kini." HARVESTER: Jurnal Teologi dan Kepemimpinan Kristen 6, no. 1 (2021): 55–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.52104/harvester.v6i1.61.

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In general, the problem of mission today is related to a one-sided emphasis on one side. One emphasizes and maintains the context of the humanitarian field with all its problems and challenges so that it tends to ignore the text. While others are fixated on the text and ignore the context. It is undeniable that the mission paradigm will influence and determine its missionary practice. This paper is intended to contribute theoretically about the importance of reconstructing the Church's mission paradigm that is relevant to the context of today's Indonesia, and practically the churches in Indone

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Peter C. Phan and Klaudyna Longinus. "Nauczanie misjologii w świecie chrześcijańskim i dla niego. Treść i metoda." Annales Missiologici Posnanienses 24 (December 31, 2019): 85–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/amp.2019.24.6.

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The article begins with a brief deﬁ nition of „World Christianity” and elaborates three theses for conceiving the relationship between missiology and theology, the understanding and practice of Christian missions, and the teaching of missiology. I argue that outside missiology there is no theology. I also reject the separation between church history and missiology, the division between the historic churches of the West and the „mission lands” of the rest, and a narrow focus of the goal of Christian missions on conversion and church-planting. Finally, I recommend a shift from „church history” t

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Liston, Gregory J. "Spirit, Church and Mission." Evangelical Quarterly 92, no. 1 (2021): 21–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/27725472-09201003.

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Abstract This article utilises the methodology of Third Article Theology to explore the church’s missional role in the world. Initially arguing that ecclesiology and missiology are mutually informing doctrines, it develops a dialogical and pneumatological approach for viewing missiology from the vantage point of ecclesiology. This contrasts with and complements the more common approach where missiology is seen as determinative of ecclesiology. The final and major section of the article uses this approach to sketch out the constituent features of the church’s mission, particularly when the Spir

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van Dyck, Steven. "Sola Scriptura in Africa: Missions and the Reformation Literacy Tradition." Evangelical Quarterly 90, no. 1 (2019): 61–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/27725472-09001004.

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This theoretical reflection addresses issues arising in the history of world Christianity, in particular regarding mission churches in Africa since the nineteenth century. The article first evaluates the development of oral, manuscript and print communication cultures in western culture, and their influence since the first century in the Church. Modernity could only develop in a print culture, creating the cultural environment for the Reformation. Sola Scriptura theology, as in Calvin and Luther, considered the written Word of God essential for the Church’s life. The role of literacy throughou

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Dancák, Pavol. "The Church and Freedom in the Post-modern World." E-Theologos. Theological revue of Greek Catholic Theological Faculty 1, no. 1 (2010): 52–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/v10154-010-0006-6.

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The Church and Freedom in the Post-modern World The postmodernism abandons a concept of reality and therefore it avoids the possibility of objective knowledge. The Church opens itself to the whole world without difference and refuses any unilateral alliances because the Church's mission is to spread evangelism to men. Nowadays, very important is defending of man's freedom and protecting freedom from egoism is the actual challenge of these times.

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Kavunkal, Jacob. "Mission or Evangelization?" Mission Studies 21, no. 1 (2004): 55–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1573383041154393.

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AbstractIn this article, Indian missiologist Jacob Kavunkal notes the ongoing debate about the use of "mission" or "evangelization" to describe the task of the church in the world. One group, especially Europeans, use "mission" to designate the verbal proclamation of the gospel, and "evangelization" to designate other aspects such as social justice work, inculturation and dialogue. Another group, especially those from Latin America, define "mission" and "evangelization" in exactly the opposite way. Kavunkal argues, after a biblical and historical analysis of both terms, that the two terms shou

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Niemandt, Cornelius Johannes Petrus. "Transformative Spirituality and Missional Leadership." Mission Studies 33, no. 1 (2016): 85–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15733831-12341435.

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The importance of transformative spirituality for missional leadership is explored. Missional leadership is defined as the transformation of people and institutions to participate, through meaningful relations and in the power of the Spirit, in God’s mission. Missional spirituality is discussed in the context of the missional church, focusing on what the churchis, does, how the churchorganizeswhat it does, theappropriate leadership, andmissional spirituality. This article brings together ideas from the missional church movement and the World Council of Churches (Together Towards Life: Mission

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Birkey, Del. "The House Church: A Missiological Model." Missiology: An International Review 19, no. 1 (1991): 69–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/009182969101900106.

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This article focuses on the house churches of the New Testament and their unique socio-physical structure. Since all the churches of the New Testament were communities small enough to meet in somebody's private home, certain theological and sociological ramifications arise out of this stark reality. From this data we can observe a “missionary model” which has relevancy for contemporary mission and church planting. Examples of effective church decentralization in the Two Thirds World further support this thesis.

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Susanto, Hery. "Gereja Yang Berfokus Pada Gerakan Misioner." FIDEI: Jurnal Teologi Sistematika dan Praktika 2, no. 1 (2019): 62–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.34081/fidei.v2i1.23.

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ABSTRACTEcclesiology is a part of systematic theology which is studying about church. Churches in this era has been developed and shaped in many forms. Obviously the churches tend to build their own authority and kingdom. In this article, describing about how important as church to be Christ centered and realize their main obligation to spread the Gospel as Missio Dei (mission from God). The method that been used is historical approach as shown in the scripture, specially the Book of Acts. The challenge that has been found recently is that the church should keep on working among people in post

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Dries O.S.F., Angelyn. "“Awash in a Sea of Archives”: Key Research Sources in the United States for the Study of Mission and World Christianity." Theological Librarianship 5, no. 2 (2012): 23–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.31046/tl.v5i2.232.

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The essay describes some holdings from five key mission archives in the United States, with the suggestion that mission archives can prove a valuable source to understand the intersection between mission and world Christianity and can raise questions about the relationship of one to the other, especially since the fulcrum of Christianity has shifted from Europe and North America to areas once considered “mission countries.” The sources hold a myriad of further research possibilities, that include the visual and performing arts in relation to inculturation; literature, the history of print, oth

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Šimko, Miroslav. "The Icon in the Byzantine Liturgy." E-Theologos. Theological revue of Greek Catholic Theological Faculty 2, no. 2 (2011): 200–209. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/v10154-011-0019-9.

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The Icon in the Byzantine Liturgy The icon is very connected with the liturgical mystery, therefore it can not be separated in any ways and looked for out of this mystery. It is an integral part of the liturgy in which the mission of the Church is revealed. In the church the icon, that speaks to the believer in spiritual language, helps the believer occurs higher, sublime world surrounded by heavenly beings. As we meet in the church with the world of the visible and the invisible, it is necessary to have boundary between these two worlds. However, this separation is only possible with the fact

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Kangwa, Jonathan. "Resilience and Equality in the Household of God: Peggy Mulambya Kabonde’s Search for Justice." Expository Times 131, no. 8 (2019): 339–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0014524619883180.

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The World Council of Churches (WCC) commemorated its 70th anniversary in 2018. Over the years, the WCC has engaged with issues that affect women in the Church and society. It has challenged patriarchy in Church structures; calling for justice, partnership in mission and the ordination of women. The WCC initiated a decade of Churches in solidarity with women (1988 to 1998) to promote the visibility of women in the Church. Using storytelling as a heuristic tool and in the spirit of the WCC’s decade of Churches in solidarity with women, the present paper documents the life and work of the Rev. Dr

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Schuster, Jürgen. "Karl Hartenstein." Mission Studies 19, no. 1 (2002): 53–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157338302x00053.

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AbstractThis article is a study of the life of Karl Hartenstein (1894-1952) and his contribution to world mission. Three contributions of Hartenstein to mission theology are outlined, focusing on Hartenstein's approach to (1) the theology of religions and the missio Dei (missio), (2) ecumenism (unio), and (3) eschatology and suffering (passio). In the first place, Hartenstein's contribution to the theology of religions and the development of the idea of missio Dei was considerable. Regarding the former, his understanding of religions began with Barth's rejection of religion as unbelief, but wa

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Tiénou, Tite. "Integrity of Mission in Light of the Gospel in Africa: A Perspective from an African in Diaspora." Mission Studies 24, no. 2 (2007): 213–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157338307x234851.

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AbstractTite Tiénou, born in Côte 'Ivoire, but currently an émigré presently living and teaching in the United States, examines the integrity of mission in light of the Gospel by exploring the church as African and the implication of this for mission, the meaning of mission in Africa, the place of Africa in the world, the opportunities for the integrity of mission in Africa and the requirement of integrity for the agents of mission. Tiénou believes that mission will be fruitful at the personal and collective level in Africa to the extent that churches and missionaries make integrity a moral an

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Wenk, Matthias. "Reconciliation and Renunciation of Status as God's Final Aim for Humanity: New Testament Thoughts on the Church's Mission and Unity." Journal of Pentecostal Theology 19, no. 1 (2010): 44–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/174552510x489964.

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AbstractNot infrequently the concern for unity (both ecumenical and social) and the concern for mission are played off against each other among Pentecostals. In this article it is argued that these two topics neither oppose each other nor do they simply reflect the two sides of the same coin. Rather, the Missio Dei precisely is to bring back to unity all aspects of life in a world suffering from division and alienation. By analyzing the relation of mission and unity in some of the New Testament books, it is argued that the mission of the church is inseparably linked to the topic of unity; divi

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Hunter, Harold D. "A.J. Tomlinson’s Emerging Ecclesiology." Pneuma 32, no. 3 (2010): 369–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157007410x531916.

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AbstractThis study seeks to engage the question of how A.J. Tomlinson formulated the theological platform that influenced the ecclesiologies of various Churches of God. The cast includes R.G. Spurling and R. Frank Porter, a forgotten figure but one who, together with Spurling, organized the Holiness Church at Camp Creek in western North Carolina on May 15, 1902. I will argue that, absent the intervention of A.J. Tomlinson on June 13, 1903, the work of Spurling, Porter, and W.F. Bryant would have suffered the ill-fated demise common to hundreds of like works in Appalachia. Yet Tomlinson was mor

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Priana, I. Made. "Misi Gereja Menghadirkan Kerajaan Allah di Bumi." SANCTUM DOMINE: JURNAL TEOLOGI 4, no. 1 (2019): 12–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.46495/sdjt.v4i1.14.

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This article tries to show that the mission of the church is to present or to embody the kingdom of God in this earth. The kingdom of God mission is not church oriented mission but the world oriented mission. The kingdom of God mission is God’s mission which is done by Jesus that the world will exist and run as it is designed by God, that is the world under God’s sovereignty. As God sent Jesus to present the kingdom of God in this earth, it does likewise Jesus sends the church to actualize the mission of Jesus (John 20:21). Church mission is actualization of Jesus’mission that is by words and

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Minton, Thomas D. "In the Shadow of Cathedrals: A Case Study of Marginality Created by “Cathedral Culture” in Basel, Switzerland." Missiology: An International Review 26, no. 1 (1998): 67–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/009182969802600106.

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The church creates and reinforces marginality when it institutionalizes its preferred cultural boundaries from which it then derives its identity. The church must rediscover its own marginality and identity in the person and work of Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus serves as model of and model for mission. Identity with Jesus propels the church into mission through intentional kenosis and planned liminality by presence and service at the margins. By sharing in the world of the marginal, by forming personal relationships in small groups, and by becoming bi-cultural, missionaries provide means of overco

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East, Brad. "An undefensive presence: the mission and identity of the church in Kathryn Tanner and John Howard Yoder." Scottish Journal of Theology 68, no. 3 (2015): 327–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0036930615000137.

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AbstractThis article proposes looking to Kathryn Tanner and John Howard Yoder as resources for moving beyond a stalemate in recent ecclesiology which locates competing centres of gravity in either church or world. By contrast, Tanner and Yoder locate that centre outside of both church and world: in God, who ‘was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself . . . and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation’ (2 Cor 5:19). Accordingly, they articulate a vision of the church in the world whose posture is wholly, and constitutively, undefensive: a community free of the violence – actual, rhet

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White, Peter, and Cornelius J. P. Niemandt. "Ghanaian Pentecostal Churches’ Mission Approaches." Journal of Pentecostal Theology 24, no. 2 (2015): 241–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/17455251-02402010.

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Mission is first and foremost about God and God’s historical redemptive initiative on behalf of creation. In this regard, the Third Lausanne Congress affirms that the Church is called to witness to Christ today by sharing in God’s mission of love through the transforming power of the Holy Spirit. The World Council of Churches states that ‘all Christians, churches and congregations are called to be vibrant messengers of the gospel of Jesus Christ’. How the Church participates in the mission of God is a question on which one should reflect. This article therefore discusses the mission approaches

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Van der Watt, G. "Die Sendingpraktyk van die Ned Geref Kerk: Enkele tendense vanaf 1952 tot met die eeuwenteling." Verbum et Ecclesia 24, no. 1 (2003): 213–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/ve.v24i1.322.

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In this past half century the Dutch Reformed Church was continuously building on the tradition of extended missionary involvement within South Africa as well as in several countries in Southern Africa. During the fifties and sixties there were a flourishing of activities, driven by, amongst other reasons, an idealism and optimism concerning the homeland-policy or grand apartheid. The seventies and eighties were therefore characterised by resistance; the DRC had to reconsider its approach. While the church had to largely withdraw from the traditional fields, it found alternative areas for invol

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Robinson, Eric. "Witness, the church, and faithful cultural engagement." Missiology: An International Review 47, no. 2 (2019): 140–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0091829619828129.

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There is a tension for the church between cultural engagement and maintaining faithful witness to the gospel of Jesus Christ. It is important that the church both acknowledges and wrestles with this tension. As the church exists in the world, it must continue to discern what faithful participation within culture looks like. It also must consider the question of identity—that is, in what ways cultural engagement is core to who the church is called to be. To state it in a different way, if engagement with the world is central to the church’s participation in the mission of God, then it must disc

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Bordeianu, Radu. "The Church: Towards a Common Vision." Exchange 44, no. 3 (2015): 231–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1572543x-12341366.

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The 2013 convergence document, The Church: Towards a Common Vision (ctcv) incorporates several aspects of the response of the Napa Inter-Orthodox Consultation to The Nature and Mission of the Church (nmc) which, as its subtitle suggests, was A Stage on the Way to a Common Statement, namely The Church. Eastern and Oriental Orthodox responders (jointly!) point to the imprecise use of the term, ‘church’, the World Council of Churches (wcc)’s understanding of ‘the limits of the Church’, and to the ‘branch theory’ implicit in nmc, an ecclesiology toned down in ctcv. Bordeianu proposes a subjective

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Bevans, Stephen. "Mission Rediscovered: Transforming Discipleship; A Commentary on the Arusha Call to Discipleship." International Bulletin of Mission Research 45, no. 4 (2021): 427–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23969393211026458.

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This review locates Kenneth Ross’s book Mission Rediscovered in the context of the history of World Mission Conferences of the World Council of Churches’ Commission on World Mission and Evangelism, the latest of which took place in Arusha, Tanzania, in March 2018. The book is a commentary on “The Arusha Call to Discipleship,” a twelve-point call to mission that was approved unanimously by the conference participants. This is an ideal book to be discussed by local congregations who want to know the latest thinking about the mission of the church.

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Houtepen, Anton. "Porto Alegre 2006: Called to be the One Church: Ecumenism beyond its Crisis?" Exchange 36, no. 1 (2007): 87–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157254307x159434.

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AbstractFrom 9-23 February 2006 the World Council of Churches held its 9th Assembly in Porto Alegre, Brasil with the theme God, in your grace, transform the world. It gathered in an atmosphere of crisis in the ecumenical movement, caused by global political and religious developments, post-modern thinking on the value of plurality and difference and by the slow reception of ecumenical agreements. The Assembly, though, became a sign of hope beyond the ecumenical crisis. Its reflections and proposals on Globalisation and economic injustice, on Christian identity and religious plurality and on Ch

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Neely, Alan, and James A. Scherer. "San Antonio and Manila 1989: “…Like Ships in the Night”?" Missiology: An International Review 18, no. 2 (1990): 139–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/009182969001800202.

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In this article the two authors who participated in both the World Council of Churches Commission on World Mission and Evangelism conference in San Antonio, Texas, and the Lausanne II Congress in Manila report on similarities and differences in the two missiological events. They note the stronger evangelism focus at San Antonio where witness in deed and word are emphasized, and the greater concern at Manila with issues of social justice, the plight of the poor and oppressed, and women in the church. Despite differences in rhetoric and theological emphasis, there is much common ground around th

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Jongeneel, Jan A. B. "“Mission and Evangelism” (1982) and “Together Towards Life” (2013)." Exchange 43, no. 3 (2014): 273–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1572543x-12341328.

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Since its establishment in 1948 the World Council of Churches (wcc) has produced and approved two position statements on mission and evangelism: Mission and Evangelism: An Ecumenical Affirmation (1982); and Together towards Life: Mission and Evangelism in Changing Landscapes (2012). This article compares and analyses these documents. It deals with six selected topics: vocabulary; (primary) sources; the connection between world history and mission and church history; systematic mission theology (especially the doctrine of the Trinity); mission spirituality; and the encounter with the adherents

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Komolafe, Sunday B. Babajide. "Christ, Church, and the Cosmos." Missiology: An International Review 35, no. 3 (2007): 273–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/009182960703500303.

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Through 20 centuries since the Word became flesh and lived among us, the theological evolution of Christianity cannot be discussed without close reference to the activities of the church as a servant-steward of God's cosmic mission. This paper discusses mission as the hermeneutic for biblical interpretation since Ephesians presents a “cosmic Christology” with its main focus on Christ and about the Church as it fulfills the purposes of Christ. It concludes by provoking an “ecclesiology of responsibility.” That is, an ecclesiology that does not pay tribute to the letter as belonging only to anci

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Kritzinger, J. J. "Sending in die kerk: ’n Gevallestudie." Verbum et Ecclesia 13, no. 1 (1992): 41–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/ve.v13i1.1046.

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Mission in the church: A case study Based on an enquiry into mission interest in the NG Church. Although there can be no doubt that mission is the essential task to which God called the church into being, to be his witness in the world, the empirical church often shows very little awareness of this. This article relates some results of research done in the Dutch Reformed Church in the Republic of South Africa on the church members’ interest in and involvement with mission. Some of the significant factors influencing the missionary interest of the members were (a) their personal spirituality an

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Groza, Andrew A. "The Seldom Acknowledged Difficulties of Leading Missional Churches: Challenges Faced by Those Who Seek to Explore Different Forms of Being and Doing Church." Ecclesial Practices 6, no. 2 (2019): 163–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22144471-00601006.

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The Church in Australia finds itself pushed to the margins of society and lacking the status it once enjoyed in previous generations. The importance and role of the church in society’s life is now questioned and it would seem that the church’s long term survival is being challenged. How should the church respond? One response is found in the exploration of new forms of church birthed out of missional theology – a theology that sees the church partnering with the God who is actively on mission in his world. This response however, does not come without its own inherent challenges. Leaders of mis

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BUYS, PHILLIPUS J., and ANDRÉ JANSEN. "“With Heart and Hands and Voices”: Integral Ministry of Word and Deed from a Missio Dei Perspective." Unio Cum Christo 1, no. 1 (2015): 127. http://dx.doi.org/10.35285/ucc1.1-2.2015.art14.

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Abstract: Missiological reflection indicates that mission organizations and churches worldwide are reconsidering the biblical foundations of integrating word and deed in proclaiming the gospel. The Lausanne Movement in its 2010 Cape Town congress, the Micah Network, the Gospel Coalition through its journal Themelios, the World Reformed Fellowship, and several recent missiological publications all address the relationship between words and deeds in the mission of the church. This article attempts to make a contribution to the debate by analyzing key biblical terms in which God reveals himself t

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Randall, Ian M. "Mission in post-Christendom: Anabaptist and Free Church perspectives." Evangelical Quarterly 79, no. 3 (2007): 227–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/27725472-07903003.

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The idea that the missional context in the West is a ‘post-Christendom’ context is increasingly seen as something not only to be acknowledged but celebrated. For several influential writers, Christian identity in the post-Christendom world is clarified when the church loses official power. This article examines how ‘post-Christendom’ thinking has evolved, looking at the influence of views drawn from the sixteenth-century Anabaptists, who rejected the Christendom model. The recovery of Anabaptist perspectives means more attention has been given to mission in pre-Christendom. The article then ex

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Pillay, Jerry. "COVID-19 Shows the Need to Make Church More Flexible." Transformation: An International Journal of Holistic Mission Studies 37, no. 4 (2020): 266–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0265378820963156.

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The COVID-19 challenge is unprecedented. It has caused enormous trauma, disrupted economies, social life, mass transportation, work and employment, supply chains, leisure, sport, international relations, academic programmes; literally everything. Churches and religious communities have not been spared; they have been severely affected and, in all likelihood, permanently transformed by the pandemic. The pre-COVID-19 world is gone, replaced by a ‘new normal’. The new landscape calls for both resilience and adaptation, embracing new ways of doing things and of being church. Churches have to adapt

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Glendenning, Cezarina. "“Not All Roads Lead to God, but God Walks All Roads to Reach People.”." Kairos 15, no. 1 (2021): 81–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.32862/k.15.1.5.

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The doctrine of prevenient grace in the Wesleyan tradition has always played an important role in shaping the way we understand and participate in the mission of God (Missio Dei) and the role of the church in it. The doctrine of prevenient grace, in the Wesleyan-Arminian tradition, continues to shape the understanding of holiness as God’s activity to restore broken relationships. Holiness, as it is often misunderstood, is not a physical separation between what we consider holy and unholy, churchy and worldly, pure and impure, but the redemption of broken relationships (God and humans, humans w

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Glasser, Arthur F. "Church Growth at Fuller." Missiology: An International Review 14, no. 4 (1986): 401–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/009182968601400402.

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Conceding that the “church growth” concept and methodology have come under fire, the author shares an insider's reflections on how the movement has fared since Donald McGavran originated it three decades ago. The history of the movement and the relation between the Institute for Church Growth and the School of World Missions at Fuller Theological Seminary are traced. Dialogue and controversy with the WCC in the sixties, and growing influence within the Lausanne movement in the seventies, are sketched. The impact and consequences of church growth for world missions and for church life in the US

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Stelmach, Dawid. "Kościół w Panamie w przededniu Światowych Dni Młodzieży w 2019 roku." Annales Missiologici Posnanienses, no. 23 (January 5, 2019): 177–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/amp.2018.23.12.

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The announcement of Panama as host of World Youth Day in 2019, turned out to be a great surprise for the whole world. For the fi rst time such a small country, has hosted a global event. Panamá is known primarily from the Panama Canal and the Panamanian aff air called Panama. But speaking in these two contexts is very hurtful, because it is a country richly diverse, and the Church here has a unique, unique face. Catholic missions are included in the history of Panama from the very beginning. From the beginning of the bishopric in the city of Panamá, through the territorial development of the C

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Pakpahan, Gernaida K. R., Frans Pantan, and Epafras Djohan Handojo. "Menuju Gereja Apostolik Transformatif." EPIGRAPHE: Jurnal Teologi dan Pelayanan Kristiani 5, no. 1 (2021): 136. http://dx.doi.org/10.33991/epigraphe.v5i1.125.

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Peter Wagner, as an expert on church growth, stated that the Apostolic church is a church that is experiencing rapid growth. This claim is made because many Apostolic churches have been built around the world. The church continued the spirit of the apostles at the time of the early church's birth. However, it is important to conduct an in-depth study regarding the realization in the field; whether a thriving Apostolic church is carrying out God's mission or the personal ambition of a charismatic church leader. This study analyzes how the church which is said to be an Apostolic church runs its

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Petraru, Gheorghe. "Eastern Orthodox Church and the Christian Mission in the Twenty-First Century." Mission Studies 32, no. 3 (2015): 371–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15733831-12341415.

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The Orthodox Church is present today all over the world, due to its mission and to the migration of the members of this church from their motherlands to the Western world. This migration took place so that its people could live in freedom, during the period of totalitarianism, or to have better conditions of life, particularly after the fall of Communism. Its mission has to be seriously taken into account in the context of Christian world mission, in order to have a relation with the living tradition of the church, on the one hand, or to know and have a vision of the doctrine of Christianity i

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Chua, Liza L., Jhon Kevin A. Mirafuentes, and Jonathan O. Etcuban. "Socio-Historical Study on the Rise and Growth of Pentecostal Churches." Journal of Asian Development 3, no. 2 (2017): 120. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/jad.v3i2.11081.

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Christianity is one of the greatest institutions ever founded in the human race. It is a divine institution that was founded by Jesus Christ to carry out His mission in the world laying the foundation of love and salvation as a free gift to everyone. The Christian church history insulated into different periods that are separated by great events. The study focused on the historical beginnings, the rise and growth of Pentecostal Churches and contributing factors which led to its establishments, spread and expansion. It was mainly anchored on Mc Gavran’s theory on Church growth and Christian mis

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McGee, Gary B. "Assemblies of God Overseas Missions: Foundations for Recent Growth." Missiology: An International Review 16, no. 4 (1988): 427–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/009182968801600404.

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Since the founding of the Assemblies of God in 1914, world evangelization has been basic to its self-understanding and mission to the world. As its missions enterprise developed in the succeeding years, important foundations were laid which contributed to its remarkable growth after 1960. These include: (1) the ardent Pentecostal belief that the apostolic signs and wonders of the Holy Spirit will follow the proclamation of the gospel, (2) the application of indigenous church principles will result in the planting of New Testament churches, (3) the training of national leaders must receive high

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Amstutz, Mark R. "The Churches and Third World Poverty." Missiology: An International Review 17, no. 4 (1989): 453–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/009182968901700406.

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How should churches respond to absolute poverty in the Third World? The author applauds the concern for the poor found in church documents on economic life, but questions the adequacy of the proposed public policies. The major limitation of the proposed policy prescriptions lies in the emphasis on redistribution and increased governmental action. What is needed in the Third World is a strategy of economic expansion based on job creation. Churches and Western governments can contribute to this mission by providing aid to those in need and by modeling values and patterns of life conducive to inc

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Harinck, George. "De kerk als alternatief voor de natie : Een visie op de vroege oecumenische beweging." DNK : Documentatieblad voor de Nederlandse kerkgeschiedenis na 1800 43, no. 93 (2020): 159–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/dnk2020.93.004.hari.

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Abstract The ecumenical movement started at the time of the First World War and was molded by the nationalism that ignited this war. In 1914-1918 it became clear that the nations had become a hindrance for the churches. At first, internationalism seemed the answer to this problem, but in the 1920s and 1930s it turned out that internationalism still was too abstract, and nationalism was still too dominant. In the early 1920s W.A. Visser ’t Hooft was active in the international Christian student movement, where he learned the relevance of Christianity as an alternative for nationalism, and in th

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Heikkilä, Ida. "Witnessing Together – Who, What and to Whom? The Concept of Witness in Together Towards Life and The Church: Towards a Common Vision." Ecclesiology 15, no. 3 (2019): 261–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/17455316-01503003.

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‘Witness’ belongs to the central vocabulary of contemporary ecumenism. Despite its ecumenically significant role the concept has not been defined in ecumenical dialogues, neither analysed in academic research. Already a rough mapping of dialogue documents shows that the concept is used in various ways and contexts but not in a coherent or conscious way. This article studies the meaning of ‘witness’ in two ecumenical documents issued by the World Council of Churches, ‘Together towards Life. Mission and Evangelism in Changing Landscapes’ (2012) and ‘The Church: Towards a Common Vision’ (2013). B

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Barker, Eileen. "The Unification Church." Alternative Spirituality and Religion Review 9, no. 1 (2018): 91–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/asrr201841842.

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The Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity (HSA-UWC), founded in Seoul in 1954 by the Reverend Sun Myung Moon (1920–2012), has been more popularly known as the Unification Church (UC) or ‘the Moonies.’ Following revelations that he reports having received as a young man, Moon devoted his life to preaching and eventually publically proclaiming himself to be the Messiah, or Lord of the Second Advent, come to fulfil the mission of restoring God’s Kingdom of Heaven on earth. His early struggles in Korea clearly had a considerable influence on the trajectory of his life a

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Baker, Kimberly. "Augustine's Doctrine of the Totus Christus: Reflecting on the Church as Sacrament of Unity." Horizons 37, no. 1 (2010): 7–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0360966900006824.

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ABSTRACTThis article examines Augustine's doctrine of the totus Christus, “the whole Christ” with Christ as Head and the Church as Body. It considers the new identity as Christ that Christians receive in the sacraments of initiation that unite individuals in the Church community, and the sacramental presence of the Church in the world as one of unifying love. This new identity forms the Church for mission as it joins Christ in a mission of love that unites people to one another as it unites them to God. The Church joins Christ in standing in solidarity with those in need, thus radiating Christ

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