Edinburgh 1910 and Christian Identity Today: An African Perspective

Informed by notions of Christendom, the Edinburgh 1910 missionary outlook conceived of Christian faith in territorial terms and fostered an understanding of Christian mission and identity in which the world is “territorially or geographically” divided into the “Christian land” and “mission field.” T...

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Главный автор: Oborji, Francis Anekwe (Автор)
Формат: Электронный ресурс Статья
Язык:Английский
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Опубликовано: Sage 2013
В: Missiology
Год: 2013, Том: 41, Выпуск: 3, Страницы: 300-314
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Итог:Informed by notions of Christendom, the Edinburgh 1910 missionary outlook conceived of Christian faith in territorial terms and fostered an understanding of Christian mission and identity in which the world is “territorially or geographically” divided into the “Christian land” and “mission field.” This missionary vision engendered a unidirectional flow of resources and ideas in which the West was the sender and the non-West the receiver. However, with the recent southward shift of the Christian landscape, each nation sends as well as receives missionaries. Never before has the course of missionary movement been this multidirectional, disparate, and global. But in spite of this new development, the Edinburgh missionary outlook still represents an important lens through which people conceive mission and respond to it. Therefore, this article examines the reflection of African missiologists on the missionary outlook of Edinburgh 1910, and emphasizes the importance of true theological reciprocity and mutuality as a major step towards overcoming the dichotomy between the older and younger churches, between Western Christianity and the Christianity of the southern continents.
ISSN:2051-3623
Второстепенные работы:Enthalten in: Missiology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/0091829613489491