"Still We Need Friends!": "Partnership in Mission" in the History of the World Council of Churches, 1948-2018
This article aims to investigate the missiological development and conceptual understanding of "partnership in mission," a major subject of inquiry through the history of the World Council of Churches (WCC), and to consider how ecumenical partners can enter into authentic friendship by emb...
| Published in: | The ecumenical review |
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| Subtitles: | The World Council of Churches at 70 |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
[2018]
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The ecumenical review
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| IxTheo Classification: | KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KDJ Ecumenism RJ Mission; missiology |
| Further subjects: | B
World Christianity
B missionary imperialism B World Council of Churches B Ecumenical Sharing of Resources B partnership in mission B incarnational mission |
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| Summary: | This article aims to investigate the missiological development and conceptual understanding of "partnership in mission," a major subject of inquiry through the history of the World Council of Churches (WCC), and to consider how ecumenical partners can enter into authentic friendship by embracing one another in the era of World Christianity. In ecumenical movements, the issue of the partner relationship has been illuminated through diverse missiological notions and themes based on profound reflections on missionary imperialism of the past. Since the 20th century, partnership in mission has provided a crucial practical and strategic framework for repositioning the unequal relationships between global South countries, as well as between the global North and South. Tracing a genealogy of partnership of the WCC, this paper discusses its deeper significance as "sharing life" articulated in the terminology of the Ecumenical Sharing of Resources (ESR). Furthermore, it proposes a model of "partnership in mission as incarnation" by relating debates about the ESR to God's incarnation and crucifixion. |
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| ISSN: | 1758-6623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The ecumenical review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/erev.12377 |