Believing in the Future: Toward a Missiology of Western CultureFollowing an analysis of the postmodern world, the legacy of the Enlightenment, and Christian faith into a postmodern age, Professor Bosch sketches the contours of a missiology of Western culture. The latter includes considerations of mission as social ethics, mission and the Third World, and God-talk in an age of reason. A concluding section summarizes the five ingredients of a missiology of Western culture, that is, that it include an ecological dimension, that it be countercultural and ecumenical and contextual, andthat it be primarily a ministry of the laity. |
Contents
THE LEGACY OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT | 5 |
THE CHRISTIAN FAITH in a PostMODERN | 15 |
CONTOURS OF A MISSIOLOGY | 27 |
THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF NOT BELIEVING | 47 |
CONCLUSION | 55 |
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Believing in the Future: Toward a Missiology of Western Culture David J. Bosch No preview available - 1995 |
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