Missionaries’ Children and the Bible: A Critical Response to Some Theological and Missiological Views

This article scrutinizes some biblical texts playing an important role in motivating missionaries to separate from their children on a young age so that they were able to receive proper school education. The children received this schooling on a place far away and often also in another country. Thor...

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Главный автор: Bakker, Freek L. (Автор)
Формат: Электронный ресурс Статья
Язык:Английский
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Опубликовано: Brill 2023
В: Exchange
Год: 2023, Том: 52, Выпуск: 3, Страницы: 204-219
Индексация IxTheo:HB Ветхий Завет
HC Новый Завет
RB Священнослужители
RJ Миссионерство
Другие ключевые слова:B missionary children
B Biblical Exegesis
B missiologists
B missionary organizations
B mission families
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Итог:This article scrutinizes some biblical texts playing an important role in motivating missionaries to separate from their children on a young age so that they were able to receive proper school education. The children received this schooling on a place far away and often also in another country. Thorough analysis demonstrates that the meaning of these texts was almost always different from the sense many missionaries and mission organizations extracted from them. Mirabile dictu these biblical pericopes were very seldom discussed within missiological academic literature.
ISSN:1572-543X
Второстепенные работы:Enthalten in: Exchange
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/1572543x-bja10026