It was these new developments in the mission field that raised the question of the relationship
between the missionary societies and the churches in the mission field and, consequently, the theological issue of the relationship between church and mission.
At Edinburgh, it was not the relationship between church and mission, or between older and younger church which received most attention, but the relationship
between the missionary and the «native» worker.
What's the difference
between a missionary and a conquistador?
When the modern missionary movement arose there was the tension
between the missionary movement and the ecclesiastical establishment that resulted in a large number of missionary societies being organized outside official church bodies.
In our time through the growth of the younger churches, through a discovery of our evangelistic task in many countries, the Spirit makes us aware of the great need to grasp and clarify the essential connection
between the missionary function of the Church (its apostolate) and its obligation to be one (its catholicity).
An issue had been raised by the collision
between the missionary methods of Paul and his colleagues and the disciplinary concerns of some people from Jerusalem.
Now, at the end of the modern age, the success of that missionary project (and especially of the apprehension of the gospel along the indigenous side of the line
between missionary and convert) emerges as perhaps the most important factor in world Christian life today.
Consultation
between missionaries of different denominations who were working in the same or nearby areas began quite early in the nineteenth century.
They have slowed down or disrupted communications
between missionaries and the constituencies which support them.
Fieldwork explores multiple clashes of cultures - between the different hilltribes; between the animists and the Christians; but mostly
between the missionaries and the anthropologists.
Not exact matches
It's the trade - off
between mercenaries and
missionaries.
Every Member a
missionary ya know... and yes I talk too much... theres a difference
between that and BS... LOL
The Tablighi Jama'a and other Muslim
missionary organisations are active and there is the possibility of conflict
between them and ultra-Orthodox movements.
Some of the reasons mentioned are: competitive
missionary activities in several parts of the world; the re-emergence of tensions
between the Orthodox and Roman Catholic Church concerning the Eastern Rite Catholic churches; the use of humanitarian help to influence people to change their denomination; the growth of religious fundamentalism and the impact of sects and religious movements.
He distinguishes
between kitchen theology and living - room theology, the former an indigenous praxis - oriented way and the latter the typical
missionary theoretical approach.
These were written during a three - year stay at Ephesus on his third
missionary journey, probably
between the winter of 53 and the fall of 55.
The Willingen conference of the International
Missionary Council (IMC) in 1952 — where the missio Dei concept first surfaced publicly — «wrestled with the question of the relation
between God's work in the mission of his Church and his work in the secular history.»
At one level, the eighteenth century
missionary interpretation drew a distinction
between «home» and «abroad» with the implication that it is those «out there» who are in real need of the mission of the church.
From the initial stages of the conversion movement, CMS
missionaries were determined to implement rigid Christianisation and as far as possible prevent any contact
between Christian and non-Christian Pulayas.
This opinion is an outcome of
missionary policy which urged on converts a discontinuity
between the religion, culture and politics of the land and the Christian faith.
Consequently, because personnel resources are free of the burden of finding financial resources, there are many South to South movements
between the churches in CWM; and many of these, like the early
missionaries, are artisans and craftsmen.
While many of these charts were helpful, such as the parallels
between Acts and the letters of Paul, and the chart on Paul's
missionary journeys, I did not find the charts about all the Men and Women mentioned by Paul to be necessary.
When Mackay, the
missionary, reached Uganda in Africa, the difference
between him and the natives was not that he lacked ambition and they had it.
I should mention briefly a third factor contributing to the crisis of Indian Secularism, namely the tension
between Hinduism and the
missionary religions on the question of conversion which continue unresolved».
One French and two Italian
missionary priests, as well as a Canadian nun, were abducted
between late 2013 and April 2014, but they were all were released after a few weeks.
The relationship
between activity aimed at Christian unity and
missionary activity makes it necessary to consider two closely associated factors....
Though readers who are familiar with fundamentalist culture of the 1970s and «80s will appreciate her descriptions of the impact that evangelist Joni Eareckson and traveling
missionaries had on her as a small girl, and of her growing passion for the Bible and of her puzzlement over the relationship
between creation and evolution, her story rarely penetrates the surface of that culture.
There must be some connection,» Walls suggests, «
between these events and the
missionary movement; and the modern
missionary movement, though affected in important ways by earlier influences, took shape as recently as the 19th century.
The policy of
missionaries, both Roman Catholic and Protestant, has been to place higher standards of instruction and of conformity to Christian morals for admission to church membership than was customary
between Constantine and the nineteenth century.
Between 1899 and 1914 it rallied 4,521
missionaries to leave American shores to work in China, India, Africa, and the Pacific islands.
The theater has received glowing reviews for its staging of such plays as Merchant on Venice, which turns Shakespeare's play about Christians and Jews into a story about Muslims and Hindus, and Golden Child, by David Hwang, about the cultural clash
between Christian
missionaries and the Chinese.
The Ghana Assembly of the International
Missionary Council, having reviewed the steady growth of the relationship of association
between the International
Missionary Council and the World Council of Churches and having considered with care the opinions of delegates and those of the Christian Councils whose views have been presented, accepts in principle the integration of the two Councils, and desires further steps to be taken towards this goal.
For different reasons, the Orthodox churches viewed with apprehension the closer relationship
between the International
Missionary Council and the World Council of Churches.
Though there was a separation of church and mission in nineteenth century
missionary thinking and practice, they moved steadily closer in the twentieth century, and by the Willingen Conference in 1952, the
missionary movement had come to realize the inseparable relationship
between church and mission.
The rest of the document dealt with the implications of the recognition of the relation
between unity and mission for the life of the church, for the world
missionary task and the relationship between the International Missionary Council and the World Council of
missionary task and the relationship
between the International
Missionary Council and the World Council of
Missionary Council and the World Council of Churches.
After the war, at its meeting in 1946, the Joint Committee recommended several common projects
between the International
Missionary Council and the Provisional Committee of the World Council of Churches.
Of course, this cycle goes beyond just the relationship
between churches and the
missionaries they support.
Disagreement about the relation
between baptism and church membership, about the relation
between biblical criticism and biblical restorationism, and about the administration of
missionary work split the Christian Church again in the 20th century.
Note distinction
between Christian concept of grace, and all the rest requiring that we earn some or all of our salvation, as in temple duties and
missionary work.
But the consciousness of the global nature of poverty and exploitation in the world today, the knowledge of the interdependence
between nations and the understanding of the international
missionary responsibility of the Church - all invite, in fact oblige, every church and every Christian to think of ways and means to share the Good News with the poor of today.
There is a growing awareness among the churches today of the inextricable relationship
between Christian unity and
missionary calling,
between ecumenism and evangelization.
Missionaries then listened to the tales and prepared Gospel presentations in advance of storytelling opportunities, using points of contact
between the Gospel and those folk tales.
The available mission records are written from the perspective of the
missionaries and mission administrators and the voices of Indian people must be read
between the lines.
CMS
missionary correspondence makes numerous references to an increase in conflict
between Pulayas and landlords and the consequent persecution of the former.
And yet there were ways in which «imperial mission and
missionary imperialism» became inextricably intertwined.3 Through a meticulous, comprehensive and multidisciplinary study Studdert - Kennedy documents the similarity
between themes of contemporary Western Christian theology and the core beliefs which grounded politically the unfolding of the imperial mission in India.
This paper is an outgrowth of my Ph.D. dissertation that focused on the interaction
between the ABCFM's Boston Board and the AMM
missionaries in the creation of mission goals.
Of course, one must not fall into the temptation of presenting a tidy and watertight causal relationship
between Christian
missionaries and British imperialists.
In the years
between the fifth and the nineteenth century the vast majority of
missionaries had been monks, professionally religious, and their financial support had come either from the labors of their own hands, from their converts, or from princes.
As an Indian Christian theologian, I can not ignore the philosophical commonalties
between the world - view of the colonialists and the British
missionaries.
Becky... I agree, but one must differentiate
between pre-sects
missionary contact and post-marital
missionary sects.