The Emerging Challenges to Christian Mission Today :: Revisioning Mission from Religious - Hardcover

S. M. Michael Jose Joseph

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9351481565 ISBN 13: 9789351481560

Publisher: Christian World Imprints, 2016

Synopsis

Today, in the globalized world, the mission of the Church is challenged by many external and internal forces. It faces the challenges of secularization and the revitalization of faith. In Asia, Christianity remains a minority religion; its members are under pressure from governments and other faiths. In some countries, Christianity, even faces the threat of extinction. Burning, destruction and closure of churches is not uncommon. In order to face these emerging challenges and to be dynamic and achieve its God-given mandate, Christian mission must rediscover its movement character for our contemporary times. For this, Christian leaders must objectively and critically look at the present world and analyze the logic of its predicaments and respond creatively to bring the meaning of Christ to today's world. The researched articles in this book by renowned scholars aim towards responding to contemporary challenges to Christian mission. Christian ethical reflections contained in these articles can contribute to the world of today for the shaping of its future towards a humane world. This book, therefore, is the fruit of this Christian hope towards a better tomorrow. It may be utopian. But the utopian hope is a good antidote against the fear of the present, which paralyzes people to inaction. The signs of the times and the movements of the Spirit need to be embraced by the Christian community since they respond to the challenges of our world.

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Sebastian M. Michael SVD is the Director of Ishvani Kendra, a Missiological Research Institute of the Society of the Divine Word, Pune, India and the Coordinator of Master's Programme in Missiology at Jnana-Deepa Vidyapeeth, Pune. He is Professor Emeritus of Cultural Anthropology, University of Mumbai. He is a Consulter to the Pontifical Council for Culture, Rome; and also the SVD Zonal Coordinator for Asia. He was also the Chairman of the Bombay Archdiocesan Commission for Inter-Religious Dialogue. Among his several books, the edited volume `Dalits in Modern India: Vision and Values' (1999) was a best-seller of Sage Publications. It has been translated into several languages. Jose Joseph SVD is the Programme Coordinator at Ishvani Kendra, Pune. He has done his Licentiate in Biblical Theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome; and his Ph.D. on "Participation in the Life of Jesus: An Exegetical Study of 2 Cor 4:7-15" from the Catholic University of Leuven in the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies. He teaches subjects related to Biblical Theology at Jnana Deepa Vidyapeeth, and at Ishvani Kendra, Pune.

About this edition

• Publisher: Christian World Imprints
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 9351481565
• ISBN 13: 9789351481560
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 296