The Missionary Society as an Apostolic Team
Some churchmen view missionary societies as a historical contingency of the nineteenth century. Others see them as Protestant counterparts of the Catholic missionary orders — and both as successors of the missionary bands so prominently chronicled in the book of Acts. Mission executive Murphy and hi...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Sage
1976
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Missiology
Year: 1976, Volume: 4, Issue: 1, Pages: 103-118 |
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Summary: | Some churchmen view missionary societies as a historical contingency of the nineteenth century. Others see them as Protestant counterparts of the Catholic missionary orders — and both as successors of the missionary bands so prominently chronicled in the book of Acts. Mission executive Murphy and his colleagues, in their struggle for organizational self-understanding, have probed beyond the mere fact of those first century bands; they have also sought to identify their apostolic function and their relationship to the early congregations. Such an analysis of the apostolic team as a structural prototype can bring a theological dimension to the needed reevaluation that mission agencies face today. |
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ISSN: | 2051-3623 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Missiology
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/009182967600400113 |