What Have the Maasai (And the Church of England) to Do with America? Lessons from Vincent Donovan for a Post-Christian West
Vincent Donovan (1926–2000) worked among the Maasai in Tanzania in the 1960s and 1970s, and is author of the best-selling Christianity Rediscovered (Orbis 1978). As North America moves further from its Christian origins, the lessons of missiologists like Donovan become ever more pressing. Britain ha...
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| Language: | English |
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Sage
2008
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Review and expositor
Year: 2008, Volume: 105, Issue: 4, Pages: 607-621 |
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| Summary: | Vincent Donovan (1926–2000) worked among the Maasai in Tanzania in the 1960s and 1970s, and is author of the best-selling Christianity Rediscovered (Orbis 1978). As North America moves further from its Christian origins, the lessons of missiologists like Donovan become ever more pressing. Britain has moved further down the road of “deChristianization” than the USA, and it is interesting to see the churches there, particularly the Church of England, applying the missiological principles of enculturation espoused by Donovan and others, with exciting results. What might this movement have to say to us in North America? |
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| ISSN: | 2052-9449 |
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/003463730810500406 |