Foundations for Mission: 13 - Hardcover

Wild-Wood, Ms. Emma; Rajkumar, Peniel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1908355123 ISBN 13: 9781908355126

Publisher: Regnum Books International, 2012

Synopsis

This volume provides an important resource for those wishing to gain an overview of significant issues in contemporary missiology whilst understanding how they are applied in particular contexts. Contributors from across the globe and from different Christian traditions explore foundations for mission. The chapters examine in what ways experience, the Bible, and theology are foundational for mission and how they together inform the missional thought of different traditions. The book also raises questions about the continued use of foundations as a helpful metaphor mission reflection and impetus. Graduate students and scholars surveying the field will find this a useful and accessible way to understand changing trends within mission studies.

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About the Author

Peniel Rajkumar is a lecturer in Christian social ethics at the United Theological College in Bangalore, India. He is the author of Challenges of Transition: Religion and Ethics in Changing Contexts (2007) and Dalit Theology and Dalit Liberation: Problems, Paradigms and Possibilities (2010).

Edition details

• Publisher: Regnum Books International
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1908355123
• ISBN 13: 9781908355126
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 315