RT Article
T1 Resource use as hindrance to sustainable overseas development intervention: A view focused on Pentecostal Christianity
JF Missiology
VO 46
IS 3
SP 251
OP 267
A1 Harries, Jim 1964-
LA English
YR 2018
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1663480249
AB The use of outside resources (and global languages) seriously curtails the ability of intervening agents at engaging with non-western societies at an ontological depth. As a result the unhealthy, socially destructive, presuppositional level of people's lives may not be challenged. Intervention in the lives of the poor using outside resources can obscure the need to engage with people at ontological depth. A case study illustrates how engagement without resources can challenge deep presuppositions associated with poverty. Deep theological engagement with preexisting ontologies from a position of understanding is advocated as the means to premeditated sustainability.
K1 Africa
K1 Development
K1 Language
K1 Mission
K1 Poverty
K1 Resources
K1 Theology
DO 10.1177/0091829618764860