Missions as the theology of the church : an argument from Malawi / Klaus Fiedler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fiedler, Klaus, author.

Series:

Mzuni texts ; no. 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christianity--Africa.

Christianity.

Missions--Africa--History.

Missions.

Africa--Church history.

Africa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (71 p.)

Place of Publication:

Mzuzu, Malawi : Mzuni Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Christian faith is comprehensive and diverse, so the question, what the centre is, can be asked. Different answers have been given, to which this book adds another. The venture of the Christian faith is missions, following Kenneth Scott Latourette's thesis that the Holy Spirit moves forward the history of the church by bringing in ever new revivals, which produce ever new organisations. Therefore missions are not the children of the churches, but of the revivals, and Africa was not evangalised by the European and American churches, but by the Europeans and American mission societies.

Contents:

The centre of all theology

My background

My presuppositions

The first 1600 years

The reformations

Pietists, Puritans and orthodox theologians

The Enlightenment

The Great Awakening

The Restorationist interlude

The holiness revival (Second Evangelical Awakening) and the faith missions

And then came the Pentecostals

A new evangelical beginning

And then the charismatics

Edinburgh 1910/2010

Missions as the theology of the church and predestination

The position of women in the kingdom of God

Missions as theology of the church and Christian unity

What about "wholistic mission?"

Migration and the unity of the church

Keep the revival.

Notes:

"Mzuni Texts no. 2."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 17, 2015).

ISBN:

99908-0-403-6

OCLC:

907504234