Children-at-Risk and the Whole Gospel: Integral Mission ‘To, For, and With’ Vulnerable Agents of God
The author encourages the Church to conceptualize children-at-risk as whole, complex humans, who actively participate in their own development and experience multi-directional influences within the contexts of families, communities, cultures, and histories. This view of children requires an expanded...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage
[2016]
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| In: |
Transformation
Year: 2016, Volume: 33, Issue: 3, Pages: 159-170 |
| IxTheo Classification: | NBE Anthropology NCC Social ethics RF Christian education; catechetics RJ Mission; missiology |
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| Summary: | The author encourages the Church to conceptualize children-at-risk as whole, complex humans, who actively participate in their own development and experience multi-directional influences within the contexts of families, communities, cultures, and histories. This view of children requires an expanded understanding of the whole gospel moving past children-at-risk as subjects of evangelism and advocacy. Children are seen as vulnerable agents of God, participants in their own development, and co-participants with the Church in the missio Dei. Using a hermeneutic of inclusion, a model of integral mission ‘to, for, and with’ children-at-risk is offered. |
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| ISSN: | 1759-8931 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Transformation
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0265378816631256 |