Into All the World: an Orthodox Theology of Mission

Rommen, Edward (2017) Into All the World: an Orthodox Theology of Mission. Orthodoxy and Mission (1). St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, Yonkers, New York, USA. ISBN 978-0881415841

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Abstract

Fr Edward Rommen makes the case that it is now time to reexamine the theological underpinnings of the Eastern Orthodox Church's mission to the world. Globalization has clearly altered the various fields on which missions are carried out. Christians in the West, to their credit, have been actively developing a missional response to these changes. As a result, missiology and missions theology are well established in the academic institutions of the West. However, the Orthodox Church has, in spite of its rich history of missionary activity, been notably absent from these discussions. But now this is changing. As the constraints of political and religious oppression have eased, the Church is awakening to its own history, but more importantly to its own missionary responsibility. There has been a great deal of fresh activity among Orthodox scholars that can enrich our reexamination of the Church's mission. So it is now indeed an opportune time to tap into the biblical, historical, and traditional resources of the Orthodox Church and attempt to reformulate a systematic, theological statement of the rationale and goal of mission, to reaffirm the centrality of the Church in missionary outreach, to describe for a new generation the nature of the gospel and the basic content of church education, and to rearticulate the guidelines that should govern our mission work.

Item Type: Book
Subjects: A Church/mission history
B Mission theology/theory > Evangelism/Proclamation of Gospel
B Mission theology/theory > Mission and migration/Diaspora
D World Christianity and Central Eastern Europe > Europe
D World Christianity and Central Eastern Europe > North America
G Christian traditions/Denominations > Eastern Orthodox
Divisions: Former Soviet Union
Depositing User: Speranca Tomin
Date Deposited: 30 Aug 2021 14:33
Last Modified: 30 Aug 2021 14:33
URI: https://ceeamsprints.osims.org/id/eprint/1940

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