Sentences with word «missio»

It was another German missiologist, Georg F. Vicedom, who has the honour of having developed the concept of missio Dei in a way that seems to be consistent with the more classical missiology that preceded Willingen, and quite different from the more radical missiology that, under the same label, was worked out during the 1960s.

The concept of missio Dei is not free from difficulties.

But, let me breifly explain why some evangelicals are concerned about the word missional and its roots in missio dei theology.

It would probably seem odd to many evangelicals to read the article under missio dei in the Evangelical Dictionary of Missions (John H. McIntosh, Evangelical Dictionary of World Missions, s.v. «Missio Dei.»

Because of this history, and much of the social justice emphasis (or «social gospel» depending on your view), evangelicals have historically shied away from missio dei theology.

Both are essential and important, as is a rightly understood missio dei, in our understanding of missional.

But, the theoligcal system called missio dei has a history that some evangelicals do not want to repreat.

For the purpose of this paper, we shall broadly classify the themes under two major headings, namely missio Dei and Witness.

In one sense, the entire arena of theological education deals with missio Dei.

It conceived missio Dei as God's activity in the secular world over and above the church, saying, «the world provides the agenda.»

No church or movement can claim ownership of the Spirit, which is interactive with the Father and the Son in the overall missio Dei.

The true missio Dei is not what we make it but what he made it.

It's interesting that Vicedom attributed the term to Willingen, when in fact the term missio dei can't be found in any articles or documents of that conference.

This was the bottom line of the later missio dei movement — the determination that God's mission is broader than the activities of his Church.

The ideal outcome of a match was a «standing missio,» when both fighters performed flawlessly and neither was defeated.

Secret Agent Academy is a lesson (s) set in a «real» context where pupils are «trained» for a special missio...

Track down Silvio Caruso and destroy a deadly virus in this multi-layered missio..

Then came the concept of missio dei, in which Christian mission was understood as Christian participation in God's mission.

The various themes of re-conceptualization that emanated in the new period includes mission as missio Dei, mission as «Christian presence,» mission as «witness» in and to the six continents, mission as development, mission as liberation, mission in relation to dialogue with people of other faiths and non faiths, mission as contextualization and inculturation.

The ten critical signposts in a missional way of life are: post-Christendom, missio Dei, incarnation, witness, scripture, gospel, church, sexuality, justice, pluralism.

Given the present, God not only promises, he calls; «man» not only hopes, he plans 43 Here is the raison d'etre for Moltmann's political theology: the pro-missio (promise) of the Kingdom becomes the clarion call for a missio (mission) of love.

Based on deductive reasoning, there are various attractive definitions within the broad conceptual framework of missio Dei such as mission as «the dynamic relationship between God and the world,» [45] and mission as «participation in the humanisation of the world.»

Christian mission, I have said, is about the boundary - crossing activity of Christians or the Church following God who crossed the boundary between God and the world (missio Dei) in and through Jesus Christ.

Johannes Aagaard has pointed out that under the missio Dei conception, «everything we do is [easily] identified with the historical missio of God, unqualifiedly and indiscriminately.»

It was such a tendency to limitlessly broaden the concept of mission under the missio Dei concept that compelled a prominent missiologist Stephen Neill to protest, «If everything is mission, nothing is mission.»

The deductive reasoning at laying down the biblical - theological foundation of mission and its raison d' être finds its consummation, so to speak, in the missio Dei concept, and all the functional definitions of mission that have emerged such as proclamation, liberation, contextualization, dialogue, and others can be interpreted as acts of «witnessing.»

The confusion in understanding the church's place in God's mission (missio Dei) and the conflicting convictions on God's work in secular history led to the difficulty in identifying what is involved in Christian mission.

Perhaps, the most influential and enduring concept, which to some extent subsumed other biblical concepts of mission, is missio Dei (mission of God).

Based on the Western medieval theology that describe the activities within the Trinity, the missio Dei concept suggests that mission should be understood as being derived from the very nature of the Triune God, that is, in the sending of the Son by God the Father, and God the Father («and the Son») sending the Spirit, and the Triune God sending the Church into the world.

David Bosch has rightly noted, «[T] heology, rightly understood, has no reason to exist other than critically to accompany the missio Dei.»

The study of mission, with a primary understanding of mission as missio Dei, could not find its place in the existing theological education system as it clearly is an overarching discipline that holds all other disciplines of theological study within itself.

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.»

In Willingen and the period following, two major — and somewhat competing — approaches to missio Dei emerged.

[24] In other words, the missio Dei concept, which is often presumed to be exclusively a missiology «from above,» is also conceived to be a missiology «from below.»

«It's the missio dei,» says Singh.

I think we need to be God's missionary people, with a biblical definition of mission, focused on the missio dei.

The challenge is that as the IMC was integrated within the World Council of Churches, the missio dei became more and more focused on social issues.

But the proponents of the term missional see it as a word set apart from other cousin - words, like missionary, mission, and missio dei.

We do this rather than first going to the Bible with the expressed purpose of discovering that first meaning, that original idea, impulse, event (whatever) which is the mission genius of the biblical message, that living verity, the proto - missio, which developed ultimately into the worldwide missionary enterprise.

In essence, those espousing the missio dei concept understood mission as our participating in the sending of God.

The missio dei was not only bigger than the missio ecclesiae, it was often contrary to it.