Missio Dei: Is There Any Common Ground?
Missio Dei has become a common and valued expression in most wings of the church. To what extent do we mean the same thing when we use this term? This article explores the understanding of the concept missio Dei in contemporary conciliar and evangelical contexts, with special emphasis on The Cape To...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2022
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Mission studies
Year: 2022, Volume: 39, Issue: 2, Pages: 219-246 |
| Further subjects: | B
Trinitarian
B Christocentric B pneumatocentric B Kingdom / Reign of God B cosmocentric B Together towards Life B Cape Town Commitment B Missio Dei |
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| Summary: | Missio Dei has become a common and valued expression in most wings of the church. To what extent do we mean the same thing when we use this term? This article explores the understanding of the concept missio Dei in contemporary conciliar and evangelical contexts, with special emphasis on The Cape Town Commitment and Together towards Life. Although missio Dei has had a turbulent life with diverse definitions and connected interests in the relatively short time span of the term, there seems to be a growing convergence in its usage. This common ground is primarily connected to the change from an ecclesiocentric to a Trinitarian paradigm of mission and to understanding the kingdom of God as the goal of mission. There are, however, differences in the documents, and these are evident in the relative emphases they give to the centrality of Christ and the role of the Spirit. |
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| ISSN: | 1573-3831 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Mission studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15733831-12341848 |