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Remembering Evangelization: The Option for the Poor and Mission History
Ist Teil von
International bulletin of mission research, 2009-04, Vol.33 (2), p.59-65
Ort / Verlag
London, England: SAGE Publications
Erscheinungsjahr
2009
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Beschreibungen/Notizen
Connecting the option for the poor and mission history would help overcome long-standing tendencies in theological inquiry to marginalize both - tendencies that make the option for the poor and the missiological perspective distressingly optional for theologians and historians of Christianity.2 Missiology's dual orientation toward the Christian past and the Christian present of evangelization appeared very early in the discipline's evolution. Besides training potential missionaries, early practitioners of the new discipline, both Protestant and Catholic, gathered historical materials on the spread of Christianity, assembling archives and culling their gleanings to create narratives that depicted past efforts at Christian evangelization, both successful and unsuccessful.