Power and partnership
Subtitle: a history of the Protestant missionary movement
By: Jonathan Barnes
Series: American Society of Missiology monograph series -- vol. 17; American Society of Missiology monograph series -- 17.
Publisher: Pickwick Publications
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Eugene, Oregon
Language: eng
Number of pages: 449
ISBN-13: 9781620322420
Description: While the concept of partnership between churches in the Global North and South has been an ecumenical goal for well over eight decades, realizing relationships of mutuality, solidarity, and koinonia has been, to say the least, problematic. Seeking to understand the dynamics of power and control in these relationships, this work traces the history of how partnership has been lived out, both as a concept and in practice. It is argued that many of the issues that are problematic for partnerships today can find their antecedents during colonial times at the very beginnings of the modern missionary movement. For those interested in pursuing cross-cultural partnerships today, understanding this history and recognizing the use, as well as the misuse, of power is crucial as we seek genuine relationships of care and friendship in our fractured and divided world.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 425-443) and index.
Table of contents: title: Problems with partnership in Protestant mission: the need for an historical analysis; title: A new paradigm emerges; title: The era of trusteeship and Manifest Destiny; title: An era "between the times"; title: Paternalism under attack; title: Partnership in a time of crisis; title: Partnership in a time of revolution; title: Partnership in a time of reassessment; title: Partnership in a time of globalization; title: Partnership: historical origins and contemporary themes.