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Discerning the Missio Dei in a Local Church's Engagement with Its Community

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Discerning the Missio Dei in a Local Church's Engagement with Its Community

[Article]

George M. Wieland

Leiden

Brill

While theologies of missio Dei and their divergent missiological developments have been refined and contested in the academy over the past seven decades, the theoretical discussions and even the term itself are still far from commonplace in the life and discourse of many local congregations. Nonetheless, among such congregations there are examples of changing practice and new modes of local mission engagement that seem to be in alignment with aspects of a missio Dei orientation. In this article the experience of one congregation will be considered, asking whether a missio Dei perspective might be discerned in recent initiatives and developments in its engagement with its local community. While theologies of missio Dei and their divergent missiological developments have been refined and contested in the academy over the past seven decades, the theoretical discussions and even the term itself are still far from commonplace in the life and discourse of many local congregations. Nonetheless, among such congregations there are examples of changing practice and new modes of local mission engagement that seem to be in alignment with aspects of a missio Dei orientation. In this article the experience of one congregation will be considered, asking whether a missio Dei perspective might be discerned in recent initiatives and developments in its engagement with its local community.

2020

101-118

Mission Studies

37/1

1573-3831

local church

Māngere

Māori and church

missio Dei

missional orientation

postcolonial

George M. Wieland

10.1163/15733831-12341698

p

[Article]

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