RT Article
T1 The Poverty Captivity of Mission in the Churches—and Strategies for Its Liberation
JF International bulletin of mission research
VO 46
IS 1
SP 81
OP 90
A1 Presler, Titus
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1783563370
AB Western world mission initiatives since World War II have become captive to a dominant emphasis on socioeconomic amelioration. The Poverty Captivity of Mission departs from the economically multivalent mission patterns of Jesus, early Christian communities, and the medieval church. It typically recapitulates assumptions of Western and white superiority embedded in colonial emphases on “civilizing” mission. Strategies for its liberation include learning from the Majority World, reaching middle and elite classes as well as the poor, developing relationships of companionship and friendship, and employing asset-based community development.
K1 missional accompaniment
K1 liberation of mission
K1 Race
K1 Colonialism
K1 socioeconomic amelioration
K1 Poverty Captivity of Mission
K1 Christian Mission
DO 10.1177/23969393211060940