Reflections from the Edge: Mission-in-Reverse and Missiological Research
Anthropologists sometimes spend several decades talking about people and situations they have not seen since their initial fieldwork; small wonder if their enthusiasm wanes and their credibility is sapped. But missiologists too may experience a certain tension between their teaching about and their...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage
1993
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Missiology
Year: 1993, Volume: 21, Issue: 1, Pages: 21-29 |
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| Summary: | Anthropologists sometimes spend several decades talking about people and situations they have not seen since their initial fieldwork; small wonder if their enthusiasm wanes and their credibility is sapped. But missiologists too may experience a certain tension between their teaching about and their experience of mission.Jesus' message is for everyone and for all time, but he ministered in a particular time and place and adopted a clear perspective: that of the poor, the sinners, the outcasts. This article, heavily autobiographical, attempts to link fieldwork and ministry, the academy and the community, in the spirit of Jesus-the-missionary. |
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| ISSN: | 2051-3623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Missiology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/009182969302100103 |