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Changing tides : Latin America and mission today / Samuel Escobar.
Van Pelt Library BV2831.3 .E8313 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Escobar, Samuel, 1934-
- Series:
- American Society of Missiology series ; no. 31.
- The American Society of Missiology series ; no. 31
- Standardized Title:
- Tiempo de mision. English
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Missions--Latin America.
- Missions.
- Latin America.
- Missions, Latin American.
- Missions--Theory.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 206 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Maryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books, [2002]
- Language Note:
- Translated from the Spanish.
- Summary:
- Changing Tides explains the history of Christianity in Latin America, draws a picture of "popular Protestantism" as it is emerging today, and offers suggestions for Latin American missioners while showing the difference they can make in world mission.
- Contents:
- Part 1 The Changing face of Christian World Mission Today
- 1. Christian Mission Today 3
- New Frontiers 6
- A New Fact at the Turn of the Century 7
- 2. Mission Today: Practice and Reflection 10
- The Nature of Missiological Reflection 12
- Reflection in the Light of the Word 12
- Missiology and History 13
- Missiology and Social Sciences 15
- Missiological Currents in the Evangelical Field 18
- Part 2 Mission in Latin America
- 3. Latin America: Mission Land 23
- A Contradictory Mission Situation 23
- Latin America as Mission Field 24
- Development of a Catholic Approach 28
- Missionaries for the Evangelization of Latin America 32
- 4. Lessons from Missionary History 35
- Lessons of History 35
- Beyond the "Black Legend" 37
- Methodological Comparisons 38
- The Objective of Mission in the Catholic Tradition 38
- The Objective of Mission in the Protestant Tradition 41
- Some Conclusions 43
- 5. The Social Impact of Mission 45
- Empire and Mission: Ambiguities of Missionary Action 45
- Constantinian Church and Mission 46
- The Protestant Missions 47
- 6. From Mission to Liberation 59
- Postwar Missionary Efforts in Latin America 61
- Medellin, a Time of Renewal 65
- A New Understanding of the Being of the Church 67
- A New Understanding of the Message of the Church 69
- A New Missionary Method: Pastoral Renewal 71
- Part 3 Missiological Perspectives on Popular Protestantism
- 7. Popular Protestantism: A Missiological Perspective 77
- The Pentecostal Fact 78
- A Grassroots Kind of Protestantism 79
- The Sociological Factors 82
- Christianity's Great Shift Southward 84
- 8. Popular Protestantism and Catholic Missiology 88
- Sect: The Construction of an Image 88
- What Can Catholics Learn? 90
- Five Missiological Lessons 92
- Changes in Catholicism 96
- 9. Missiological Reflection on Belief, Experience, Structure 99
- Our Closest Protestant Relatives 100
- The Holy Spirit and the Mission of the Church 103
- Learning from the Poor 107
- 10. From Mission to Theology 111
- Toward an Evangelical Theology of Mission 111
- Evangelical Missiology after Lausanne 113
- The Search for a Missiological Christology in Latin America 115
- From Christology to Social Ethics 118
- A Missiological Christology 120
- Rediscovery of Kingdom Theology 127
- Mission from the Periphery 128
- 11. Mission Theology from Pentecost to the Twenty-First Century 131
- Pentecostal Missiology 134
- The Pneumatological Question 137
- Ecclesiology, Social Analysis, and Missiology 141
- Gospel and Power: Church Facing the World 144
- Eschatology, the Spirituality of Manana 147
- Part 4 Mission from Latin America
- 12. Mission from Latin America 153
- Youth, Pioneers in the History of Mission 154
- Missionary Vision in Brazil, the Congress of Curitiba (1976) 156
- Emergence of COMIBAM (1987) 158
- Missionary Concern in Catholic Circles 160
- Two Models of Mission out of Poverty 162
- Churches in Time of Mission 163
- 13. Formation of the Transcultural Missionary 166
- Biblical Formation for Mission 167
- The Bible in Protestant Missionary Practice 168
- Formation of Vocation and Missionary Style 170
- The Biblical Content of Missionary Action 171
- Christian Mission and Cultures 173
- A Profound Change of Attitude 175.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-198) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1570754144
- OCLC:
- 48892252
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