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Article: Evangelical presence at the Salvador Conference - a perspective from Latin America. (Conference on World Mission and Evangelism)(Mission in the Twenty-First Century: Impulses from Salvador)
- Article from:
- International Review of Mission
- Article date:
- January 1, 1997
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"Called to One Hope: The Gospel in Diverse Cultures" is a potentially divisive theme for evangelicals. What is the nature of the Christian hope and the essential content of the gospel, and do gospel and culture have equal weight on the scales of evangelization? Remembering the fallout after the World Council of Churches' (WCC) Canberra assembly (1991), we wondered what would be the evangelical contribution and reaction to the Salvador conference.
Any discussion of the role of evangelicals at the eleventh Conference on World Mission and Evangelism (CWME), in Salvador, Brazil (November-December 1996), should begin with a terminological clarification. What do we mean by ...