Ethnic Diversity and Reconciliation

by Arend Van Dorp

Publisher:

Langham

, 2022

Overview

Forces of division, conflict, and fear threaten to separate us from the neighbor who does not look, act, or pray like us. However, followers of Christ are charged with embodying a unity that celebrates difference rather than fleeing from it.

Ethnic Diversity and Reconciliation explores the implications of the church’s radical call to inclusive community in the context of Myanmar’s long history of ethnic conflict. Dr. Arend van Dorp outlines the theological foundations for understanding the church’s mandate as a diverse and unified missional body, while also engaging the very real challenges posed to this mandate by the cultural, religious, and historical realities faced by Christians in Myanmar. He demonstrates that while the challenges are vast, so is the potential for transformation and reconciliation when the church takes up its mantle and bears faithful witness to God’s love in a fractured world.

Key Features

• Explores the implications of the church’s radical call.
• Outlines the theological foundations for understanding the church’s mandate.
• Demonstrates the church takes up its mantle and bears faithful witness.

Praise for the Print Edition

Arend van Dorp explores a biblical understanding of the church and develops an inclusive model of missional church. This book will stimulate, energize, and propel missional Christian leaders in Myanmar to rethink, reform, and renew a biblical ecclesiology. It is a must-read for all who want to be empowered to bring real and lasting change.

--Peter Thein Nyunt, PhD. Director, Theological Commission of Myanmar Evangelical Christian Alliance, Myanmar

In the midst of the brokenness and suffering of the world, the church exists as a community of reconciliation. Or at least it should. In Ethnic Diversity and Reconciliation, Arend van Dorp explores the complexities facing the church in Myanmar in becoming a more inclusive, multiethnic fellowship that embodies the gospel of reconciliation within the church and wider society. Van Dorp’s work will be an excellent resource, not just for the church in Myanmar, but for all contexts where the church is seeking to live out its missional calling as a peacemaker.

--Peter Rowan, PhD. Co-National Director, OMF International, UK

Arend van Dorp has researched on the history and the present context of multiethnic churches in Myanmar. He fully understands the issues and the solution of what needs to be done for multiethnic churches toward reconciliation according to biblical perspective. This is a book like a window into the present and the future development of churches in Myanmar.

Salai Yaw Han, DMin. Principal, Stars of Dawn Wholistic Leadership Institute. General Secretary, Myanmar Christ’s Mission Cooperation Board

Product Details

• Title: Ethnic Diversity and Reconciliation: A Missional Model for the Church in Myanmar
• Author: Arend Van Dorp
• Series: Global Perspectives Series
• Publisher: Langham
• Print Publication Date: 2022
• Logos Release Date: 2023
• Pages: 110
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Subjects: 2000-2099; Buddhism; Burma; Burma Ethnic relations; Christianity; Christianity Burma 21st century; Christianity and other religions Buddhism; Christianity and other religions Burma; Ethnic relations; Ethnic relations Religious aspects Christianity; Interfaith relations; Mission of the church; Reconciliation Religious aspects Christianity
• ISBNs: 9781839737152, 9781839737169, 9781839737176, 1839737158, 1839737166, 1839737174
• Resource ID: LLS:THNCDVRSRCNCLTN
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2023-10-19T22:54:15Z

About Arend Van Dorp

Arend Van Dorp holds a DMin from Fuller Theological Seminary, California, USA. Originally from the Netherlands, he has served in mission for over thirty years in Southeast Asia, including six years in Myanmar. Arend currently works with OMF New Horizons, equipping young people for mission among East Asians.