Intercultural Theology, Volume Two: Theologies of Mission

by Henning Wrogemann

Publisher:

IVP Academic

, 2018

Overview

In this second volume of his three-volume Intercultural Theology, Henning Wrogemann turns to theologies of mission. Mission theologies, he argues, are found in a wide range of implicit as well as explicit forms, from the practice of Christian presence by a Pakistani Christian among a marginalized people to the published deliberations of mission scholars in the West. The task of intercultural theology is to investigate and promote awareness of the variety of culture- and context-specific theologies of mission. From Warneck to Bosch, from Edinburgh to Lausanne to Busan, Wrogemann provides an overview of the theological underpinnings, rationalizations, and visions for mission and its practice. Tracing developments across a range of Christian traditions, movements, themes, and regions of the globe, from Europe and North America to sub-Saharan Africa, Wrogemann presents us with an array of mission theologies across the scope of the modern missionary movement. This rich conspectus is rounded out with the doxological dimension of mission and the varied facets of oikoumenism. Masterful in its scope and detail, this volume will richly inform the study of missiology and global Christianity. And it is essential reading for doing theology in a multicultural key. In a day when the church in the West struggles to understand and appreciate its missionary legacy and calling, Wrogemann’s work sparkles with its deeply informed insights and inspiring vision.

Contents

Top Highlights

“This means that doxology is the prerequisite for mission.¹³ Mission is rooted in the praise of God; conversely, as an event, the praise of God itself is the proclamation of the gospel. For this reason, being a doxological event, mission is also a liturgical event and a Eucharistic event at the same time. In the end, mission is rooted in the center of Christian life, i.e., in the sacrament of the Eucharist.” (Page 191)

“it is not only the Christian religious configuration that purposefully crosses boundaries in seeking to expand” (Page xviii)

“South Korea alone currently supply about twenty-seven thousand missionaries worldwide” (Page 28)

“The Orthodox model may be called a mission of theosis:” (Page 202)

“in unwritten ‘texts’ such as—on the part of Roman Catholics—in the specific spirituality of various religious orders” (Page 9)

Product Details

• Title: Intercultural Theology, Volume Two: Theologies of Mission
• Author: Henning Wrogemann
• Series: Missiological Engagements
• Volume: 2
• Publisher: IVP Academic
• Print Publication Date: 2018
• Logos Release Date: 2018
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Christianity and culture; Missions; Theology
• ISBNs: 9780830889068, 9780830850983, 083088906X, 0830850988
• Resource ID: LLS:NTRCLTRLTH02
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T01:57:03Z

About Henning Wrogemann

Henning Wrogemann (DTheol, DHabil, Ruprecht-Karls University of Heidelberg) is a world-renowned missiologist and scholar of religion. He holds the chair for mission studies, comparative religion, and ecumenics at the Protestant University Wuppertal/Bethel in Germany, where he also heads the Institute for Intercultural Theology and Interreligious Studies. He is the chairman of the German Society of Missiology. Previously, Wrogemann served as a pastor in northern Germany, as the senior lecturer for missiology and comparative religion at the Mission Seminary Hermannsburg, and as a member of the mission board of the Evangelical Lutheran Mission in Lower-Saxony, Germany.