Recently added articles from International Review of Mission:
Editorial.
Jul 01, 2007; Matthey, Jacques ... On the way from Athens (2005) to Edinburgh (2010) the World Council of Churches (WCC) realized it would be necessary to address specifically the issue of evangelism, or mission, as the proclamation of the gospel. Indeed, during and after the 2005 world mission conference in Athens, ...
Evangelism from a WCC perspective: a recollection of an important ecumenical memory, and the unfolding of a holistic vision (1).(World Council of Churches)(Report)
Jul 01, 2007; Werner, Dietrich ... Having to present a brief survey on WCC perspectives on evangelism is a huge task that at first sight seems to be an almost impossible undertaking because several difficulties have to be encountered, including: * the vast amount of material that normally would have to be ...
Mission, evangelism and evangelization--from the perspective of the Lausanne movement *.(Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization)
Jul 01, 2007; Engelsviken, Tormod ... The most authoritative documents of the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization (LCWE) are the 1974 Lausanne Covenant (LC) and the 1989 Manila Manifesto (MM), which is an elaboration of the LC, and always to be read and understood in connection with the LC. In addition, the movement ...
Panel on salvation: the Catholic perspective.(Report)
Jul 01, 2007; Rossi, Teresa Francesca ... Abstract In the reflection about salvation, mission and healing, the aspect of revelation has not been so much emphasized in the last years. However, it seems to me that revelation, rather than just eschatology, might be the key concept in understanding healing and ...
Evangelism and church growth: research on non-believers for developing an evangelizing strategy in the Korean context and the Diamond Evangelistic System *.(Report)
Jul 01, 2007; Hong, Young-Gi ... Introduction No matter how often evangelism is emphasized in church growth, it is never too much. Donald McGavran originally used the term "church growth" as a synonym for evangelism and mission. He said that mission is proclaiming Christ and making people Christ's disciples ...
The Night Church of Copenhagen.
Jul 01, 2007; Fundrup, Christina Mertz ... "We wish to bring more of everyday life into the church, and take more of the church out into everyday life". (The Night Church of Our Lady) In 1999, the Night Church project began at the Church of our Lady, the cathedral of Copenhagen. The Night Church has developed during the ...
Assessing aspects of the theology of Alpha courses.
Jul 01, 2007; Tomlin, Graham ... I am grateful for the invitation to present this paper on Alpha and some aspects of its theology. Some years ago I asked a member of our congregation, who was a student at the London School of Economics, what he was studying. He replied, "Well, I think we are trying to discover whether ...
Evangelism in theological education.(Report)
Jul 01, 2007; Herbst, Michael ... Introduction Ralf is a 24-year-old student who now lives in East Berlin, his having been brought up in an atheist family. However, he encountered a thriving young church where he began his spiritual journey. One day, he decides to be baptized. In his baptismal service he tells ...
Education and formation for evangelism: evangelism and youth.
Jul 01, 2007; Behera, Marina Ngursangzeli ... When I began preparations for this presentation, I was struck by the main theme of this seminar, viz. mission as proclamation of the gospel. It was a reminder of the need for a holistic approach to what we have generally come to understand as "proclamation". For many Christians ...
An ecumenical miracle--an Arabic satellite channel devoted to Christian unity in a torn region.(SAT-7)
Jul 01, 2007; Schmidt, Mette ... On the last day of May 1996, an Egyptian Christian sat down in front of his television set and saw something he had never seen on Arabic TV before; it was an Arab female presenter with a cross around her neck. To see a representative of the almost invisible Arab Christian minority on ...
Singing the Lord's song--evangelism and music (1).
Jul 01, 2007; MacArthur, Terry ... Jaci Maraschin, a former member of Faith and Order, used to say that worship was an activity that was good for nothing. To praise God had no value. I begin at this point because we do damage to the core of worship when we turn it into an activity that gains something else. Something is ...
The future of the rural church: perspectives on rural evangelism in a German context.
Jul 01, 2007; Werner, Dietrich ... "Let the church be in the village!" That is a common saying in German, and one that indicates that no longer can it be taken for granted that every village will have its own church. Another German sating is used to describe a person who proposes something very arbitrary or comes up with a ...
Pulling down strongholds: evangelism, principalities and powers and the African Pentecostal imagination.
Jul 01, 2007; Asamoah-Gyadu, J. Kwabena ... Themes relating to overcoming, conquering, dominating, or defeating evil powers and breaking through debilitating conditions that afflict people, as seen in the ministries of Jesus Christ and of the apostles in Acts, are familiar to Pentecostal/Charismatic Christianity. In fact, ...
Message from Bossey consultation, 6-12 June 2006 "towards a New Ecumenical Agenda on Evangelism for the 21st century".
Jul 01, 2007 ... "And the Lord said to Paul one night in a vision: 'Do not be afraid, but speak and do not be silent; for I am with you, and no man shall attack you to harm you; for I have many people in this city.' And he stayed a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them." ...
Success and failure in conversion narratives (1).
Jul 01, 2007; Lienemann-Perrin, Christine ... Introduction Debates about conversion and proselytism have been gaining momentum around the globe in recent years. This is happening for several reasons but especially because the number of new constitutional democracies that have been created in Eastern Europe, Africa, Asia and ...
Revamping Pentecostal evangelism: appropriating Walter J. Hollenweger's radical proposal.
Jul 01, 2007; Richie, Tony ... Abstract As the Christian Church endeavours to be faithful to its evangelistic mission, increasingly intense problems arise in international contexts of cultural diversity and religious plurality. Pentecostals, noted for "aggressive evanglesim", are frequently at the forefront ...
Evangelism, still the enduring test or our ecumenical--and missionary calling *.
Jul 01, 2007; Matthey, Jacques ... Evangelism allows us to check the genuineness of our ecumenical calling, according to the well-known words of Philip Potter, former general secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC). (1) By evangelism I mean the proclamation of the good news accompanied by an invitation to turn away ...
Report from interreligious consultation on "Conversion--Assessing the Reality": Lariano (Italy): May 12-16, 2006.
Jul 01, 2007 ... Introduction We, the participants in the inter-faith reflection on "Conversion: Assessing the Reality", met at Lariano (Italy) on May 12-16, 2006. We, 27 of us, belong to Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism and Yoruba religion. We shared our views and experiences ...
Code of Conduct for the Danish Missionary Council (Dansk Missionsrad).
Jul 01, 2007 ... Introduction Mission means sending. The missionary organizations have come into existence as a framework for mission crossing borders and barriers, individuals being sent to give witness to the Christian truth in word and deed in new ethnic and cultural contexts. Christian ...
Mission and dialogue.(Church's mission)
Jul 01, 2007 ... Background The organization Folkekirke og Religionsmode (The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Denmark and the Encounter with Other Religions) wishes to clarify its understanding of how the Christian commitment to mission, which the Church cannot renounce, can be reconciled with ...