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Article: The legacy of J.C. Hoekendijk. (missionary Johannes Christiaan Hoekendijk)
- Article from:
- International Bulletin of Missionary Research
- Article date:
- October 1, 1995
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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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Article: My pilgrimage in mission. (missionary work)
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October 1, 1996 ;
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... ... leaders, such as W. A. Visser't Hooft and Hendrik Kraemer, were with the World Council of Churches in Geneva. Hans Hoekendijk was teaching in Utrecht. The new Reformed church order was providing the church with a sense of direction and new freedom ...
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