Transcending the modern mission tradition /
Stroope, Michael W.,author.
Stroope, Michael W.Transcending mission : the eclipse of a modern tradition.
The urgent task of our day is to reimagine the church's witness to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Yet, a mere attempt to rehabilitate or revise the modern mission tradition will not do. Mission as a rhetorical and conceptual framework is the problem. The ethos and spirit of modernity with its ideas of progress, individualism, commodification, and conquest are hardwired into mission, and thus, this modern mental model undermines faithful witness and service. Now is the time to transcend the modern mission tradition - to become pilgrim witnesses. --Book cover.
"This is an abridged version of 'Transcending mission: the eclipse of a modern tradition' (IVP/Apollos, 2017)"--Title page verso
Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-160).
I. Justifying Mission. Partisans and apologists -- Reading scripture as mission -- Presenting history as mission -- Rhetoric and trope -- II. Innovating Mission. Holy conquest -- Latin occupation -- Mission vow -- Ignatian mission -- III. Revising Mission. Protestant reception -- Missionary problems -- Epilogue. Toward pilgrim witness.
The urgent task of our day is to reimagine the church's witness to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Yet, a mere attempt to rehabilitate or revise the modern mission tradition will not do. Mission as a rhetorical and conceptual framework is the problem. The ethos and spirit of modernity with its ideas of progress, individualism, commodification, and conquest are hardwired into mission, and thus, this modern mental model undermines faithful witness and service. Now is the time to transcend the modern mission tradition - to become pilgrim witnesses. --Book cover.
Missions
Missions.