Cristin-resultat-ID: 1677762
Sist endret: 2. juli 2019, 14:00
NVI-rapporteringsår: 2018
Resultat
Vitenskapelig artikkel
2018

God's Mission as a Call for Transforming Unity

Bidragsytere:
  • Stephanie Dietrich

Tidsskrift

International Review of Mission
ISSN 0020-8582
e-ISSN 1758-6631
NVI-nivå 1

Om resultatet

Vitenskapelig artikkel
Publiseringsår: 2018
Publisert online: 2018
Trykket: 2018
Volum: 107
Hefte: 2
Sider: 378 - 390
Artikkelnummer: IROM12237
Open Access

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Tittel

God's Mission as a Call for Transforming Unity

Sammendrag

This article offers a critical reflection on the World Council of Churches Conference on World Mission and Evangelization in 2018 in Arusha, asking for a renewed focus on and discussion of ecumenical and missional theology, especially the relation between unity and diversity among churches and Christians. Based on an outline of the ecumenical discussion on “unity and (reconciled) diversity,” the author asks for a strengthened focus on the unity of the church. She claims that transforming unity is important for the credibility of the church in its communication of the gospel to the world, that transforming unity is a “matter of survival” in times of secularization and in times of religious persecution, and that transforming unity implies a call to diakonia as an unnegotiable part of God’s mission to the world. Concluding, the author asks for further theological discourse on important themes lifted up by the Arusha Conference, like “mission from the margins,” the work of the Holy Spirit (pneumatology), deification/sanctification/theosis, and the relation between unity and diversity in worship and spirituality. Finally, the author underlines that the Arusha Conference was an important reminder of God’s call to the churches for the ongoing mission of transforming unity.

Bidragsytere

Stephanie Dietrich

  • Tilknyttet:
    Forfatter
    ved Fakultet for teologi og samfunnsvitenskap ved VID vitenskapelige høgskole
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