The in-between people
Subtitle: a reading of David Bosch through the lens of mission history and contemporary challenges in Ethiopia
By: Girma Bekel ; with a foreword by Jonathan J. Bonk
Publisher: Pickwick Publications
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Eugene, Or
Language: eng
Number of pages: 461
ISBN-13: 9781608992690
Subjects: Reconciliation; Christianity; Theory; Missions; Church history
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 423-444) and index.
Table of contents: title: Bosch's world; title: Biographical sketch; title: Bosch's theological development: from Witness to the world to Transforming mission; title: Introduction to Bosch's analysis of paradigm shifts in the history of mission; title: Mission, evangelism and theology: setting the horizon for the identity of the in-between people; title: Crown and clergy: an excursion to the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church; title: Some remarks on crown-clergy dynamics and Ethiopianism as paradoxical ideology; title: Protestantism in Ethiopia: a paradigm shift or proselytism gone wrong?; title: The New Testament task of the church as the alternative community; title: The in-between people and the quest for social justice; title: The cry of the poor: the sociological context; title: Post-Derge challenges and opportunities for contemporary churches; title: A move towards contemporary mission praxis: the emerging collaborative ecumenical diakonia.