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Constructing Mission History

Missionary Initiative and Indigenous Agency in the Making of World Christianity

By: Stanley H. Skreslet

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Constructing Mission History

Missionary Initiative and Indigenous Agency in the Making of World Christianity

By: Stanley H. Skreslet

Three master narratives currently dominate the analysis of modern mission history.?One puts foreign missionaries at the heart of the story.?A second emphasizes the colonial aspect of modern missions.?Here, missionaries are not heroes but villains, who are implicated in hegemonic schemes of imperial domination.?Thirdly, mission history is subordinated to one of its outcomes, the advent of World Christianity.?In this master narrative, the concept of contextualization looms large, bolstered by Sanneh's notion of translatability and emphasis on the agency of non-Westerners, who participate in and subtly shape the complex social processes of evangelization.?While all three of these master narratives are insightful, none of them adequately balances concern for missionary initiative and indigenous agency.?? Borrowing from speech-act theory, Skreslet offers a new analytical approach to the modern roots of World Christianity that differentiates between what a speaker might intend to communicate and the effects of what has been said or actions taken both in the moment and over time.?Corresponding to the concepts of illocution and perlocution as these technical terms are used in speech-act theory, the book is structured in two main sections.?Initially, the focus is on expressed missionary motives. Part two engages a representative set of modern-era mission performances involving many more actors than just the foreign evangelizers whose stated or implied intentions are emphasized in part one.

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Fortress Press

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1506481906

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9781506481906

Picturing Christian Witness

New Testament Images of Disciples in Mission

By: Stanley H. Skreslet

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Picturing Christian Witness

New Testament Images of Disciples in Mission

By: Stanley H. Skreslet

Christian mission in previous centuries often drew on images of imperial expansion and war. While few today would describe the gospel task in such imperialistic terms, have we developed appropriate alternate images to associate with the good news of Jesus Christ? In "Picturing Christian Witness" missiologist Stanley Skreslet searches for new, more holistic images of mission from Scripture. Undertaking a novel exegetical study of mission in the New Testament, he highlights five actions that depict the witness of Jesus' first followers: announcing good news, sharing Christ with friends, interpreting the gospel, shepherding, and building/planting. After carefully examining key biblical passages, Skreslet draws out the implications of these five images for the theology of mission and lets each image take shape visually through an array of Western and non-Western art. "Picturing Christian Witness" will provoke readers to imagine what mission will look like when actively embodied by contemporary disciples of Jesus.

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Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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0802829562

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9780802829566

Comprehending Mission

The Questions, Methods, Themes, Problems, and Prospects of Missiology

By: Stanley H. Skreslet

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Comprehending Mission

The Questions, Methods, Themes, Problems, and Prospects of Missiology

By: Stanley H. Skreslet

This comprehensive book offers a concise overview of the development of missiology over the last century, an introduction to its characteristic methodologies, and insight into the kinds of questions missiologists typically bring to the study of their subject."--From back cover

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Orbis Books

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1570759596

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9781570759598

Constructing Mission History

Indigenous Agency and the Making of World Christianity

By: Stanley H. Skreslet

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Indigenous Agency and the Making of World Christianity

By: Stanley H. Skreslet

Challenging other narratives of mission history, Skreslet offers a new speech-act theory approach to the modern roots of World Christianity that differentiates between what a missionary might intend to communicate and the effects of what has been said or actions taken both in the moment and over time.

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Augsburg Fortress Publishers

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1506481892

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9781506481890

Memories of Stanley Pumphrey

By: Henry Stanley Newman

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Memories of Stanley Pumphrey

By: Henry Stanley Newman

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

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3385323878

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Book's by Stanley H. Skreslet

Constructing Mission History

Constructing Mission History

Picturing Christian Witness

Picturing Christian Witness

Comprehending Mission

Comprehending Mission

Constructing Mission History

Constructing Mission History

Memories of Stanley Pumphrey

Memories of Stanley Pumphrey

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