The Gift of Mission: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow: The Maryknoll Centennial Symposium - Softcover

9781626980129: The Gift of Mission: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow: The Maryknoll Centennial Symposium

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1626980128 ISBN 13: 9781626980129

Publisher: Orbis Books, 2013

In 2011 the Maryknoll Fathers & Brothers celebrated one hundred years of mission work in more than forty countries around the world. These essays describe the achievements, and failures, of the past and the challenges and rewards that mission outreach experiences today in our world of pluralism, and it probes into the future of mission and the changing nature of that mission.

Included among the many contributors are Cardinal Francis George, Robert Schreiter, Peter Phan, Dana Robert, and Bishop Ricardo Ramirez. Complete texts of the plenaries by Maryknoll representatives and invited speakers are included and summaries are presented by leaders of a number of break-out sessions. Among the latter are Barbara Reid, Daniel Groody, Ana Maria Pineda, and many others.

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About the Author:

James H. Kroeger, M.M., is professor of mission theology at the Loyola School of Theology and the East Asian Pastoral Institute in Manila. He has written or edited more than thirty books and contributed to many others. He serves mission as president of the Philippine Association of Catholic Missiologists and as executive secretary of the Asian-born Missionary Societies forum.

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