Mission Under Scrutiny

副标题: Confronting Contemporary Challenges

ISBN: 9780800638009

出版社: Fortress Press

出版年: 2006-09

页数: 227

定价: USD 20.00

装帧: Paperback

内容简介

What is Christian mission in a world post-everything? This volume is a masterful rethinking of the problems and prospect of the Christian vocation to mission in light of the whole checkered legacy - religious, philosophical, colonial, and economic - of modernity.

Kirk draws on his considerable experience of worldwide mission and his expertise in modern Western thought to throw light on all the most burning questions, such as:

What kinds of mission initiatives are appropriate today? Is it legitimate to invite adherents of different religions to follow Jesus? What role have Christians played in advocating violence, and also in being agents of peace and reconciliation?