Article: The legacy of J.C. Hoekendijk. (missionary Johannes Christiaan Hoekendijk)

Johannes Christiaan Hoekendijk is often appreciated as an influential figure behind the so-called worldly theology that was popular in the ecumenical movement of the 1960s; many other observers, however, describe his position as untenable and absurd. These qualifications are attached particularly to his crusade against ecclesiocentrism, his desire to embrace the secular world as the arena of God's action, and his insistence on a desacralized mission in which shalom rather than church is the keyword. Scherer speaks of a "quite new, unhistorical, and methodologically unclear model for Christian mission";(1) Bosch of "a view that leads to absurdity."(2) Some commentators focus ...

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