New Directions in Mission and Evangelization 2: Theological Foundation (New Directions in Missions and Evangelization) by Scherer James A

Author:Scherer, James A. [Scherer, James A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Orbis Books
Published: 2015-03-23T16:00:00+00:00

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* Reprinted from Missiology 14 (April 1986), pp. 205–20, with the permission of the publisher. Efiong S. Utuk is an ordained minister of the Presbyterian Church of Nigeria and is doing research in the United States on questions having to do with African missions. He is author of From New York to Ibadan: The Impact of African Questions on the Making of Ecumenical Mission Mandates, 1900–1958 (New York: Peter Lang, 1991).

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Changes in Roman Catholic Attitudes toward Proselytism and Mission

Robert J. Schreiter *

The foundations of Roman Catholic theology of mission today can be understood only by tracing the dramatic changes in missiological thinking during the 20th century. This survey of these changes begins with the “period of certainty” (1919 until the beginning of Vatican Council II in 1962) and explains how shifts in theological thinking during the Council brought about a “period of missionary crisis” in the 1960s and 1970s. Since 1975, however, in the opinion of Father Schreiter, the Catholic Church has been experiencing a “rebirth of the missionary movement.”

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