Mission Matters

The book is a collection of essays, mostly by postgraduate researchers at the University of Birmingham and the Selly Oak Colleges under the supervision of Werner Ustorf, Professor of Mission. Authors from Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas belonging to Protestant and Catholic churches share some of the theological and missiological issues with which they are engaged. Professor Robert Schreiter writes in his Foreword, «They all seem to grasp the deeper import of mission, how it changes, even how it must change».

Autorentext

The editors were researchers together at the University of Birmingham and the Selly Oak Colleges in 1994 when this project began. Dr. Lynne Price is now engaged in freelance work, Rev. Dr. Juan Sepúlveda has returned to his post with SEPADE in Santiago, Chile, and Grame Smith is completing his doctoral research.
The Contributors: Harold Lewis, Moo Song Goh, Graeme Smith, Werner Ustorf, Christine Penney, Mary Beasley, Peter Cruchley-Jones, Robert Beckford, Lynne Price, John Parry, Juan Sepúlveda, Simon Enno, Lee, Hong-Jung, Laurent Ramambason, Andrew Wingate, Michael Perry.

Zusammenfassung
"'Mission Matters' constitutes an invaluable input for the growth of missiology as an independent scientific discipline. It identifies some pertinent problems of mission and missiology and provides directions for incremental research." (Laurent William Ramambason, Exchange)

Inhalt
Contents: 16 essays on a variety of missiological issues and concerns with a Foreword by Robert Schreiter. Section 1 is entitled 'Mission History: Reassessing some Legacies'; 2. 'Facing some Realities in Contemporary Britain'; 3. 'Facing some Realities in Africa, Asia and Latin America'.