Call to global mission
Subtitle: background papers
By: edited by John M. Mangum
Contributors: Lutheran Church in America. Convention; Lutheran Church in America. Division for World Mission and Ecumenism
Publisher: Division for World Mission and Ecumenism, Lutheran Church in America
Published: 1982
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 372
Subjects: Call to global mission; Missions
Other titles: Background papers to the document Call to global mission
Notes: Cover title: Background papers to the document Call to global mission.

"Private circulation only / not for publication."

"For presentation to the Convention of the Lutheran Church in America, Louisville, Kentucky, September 3-10, 1982"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Race set before us: some biblical and theological perspectives on mission as reminder and invitation  -- James A. Bergquist; title: Nature and society: the challenge of contemporary worldviews and their central symbols  -- Grodon John Schultz; title: LCA in world mission 1842-1982  -- David L. Vikner -- Three scenarios of the final decades of the twentieth century.; title: Toward the year 2002: a middle of the road view  -- William A. Kinnison; title: Letter to Elizabeth: the world you will inherit  -- Katherine Mancke Kidd -- Keynote address: the Lutheran Church in Biennial Convention, October 8-16, 2000, Milwaukee, Wisconsin:; title: U.S. Lutherans in the global context of 2000: a look back to 1980: an optimistic scenario  -- Wilfred Kraegel -- Issues with which the church must contend. -- Issue:; title: The form of mission  -- Emilio Castro -- Issue:; title: The poor and the oppressed  -- David M. Stowe -- Issue:; title: The divided church  -- George A. Lindbeck -- Issue:; title: Other religions in the world  -- Paul V. Martinson -- Issue:; title: Scientific and intellectual advancements  -- Philip Hefner; title: Issue:; title: The crisis of institutions -- Ross E. Paulson.