Bargár, Pavol (2014) Changing Landscapes of Mission in Post-Communist Europe: Together Towards Life in Dialog with a Protestant missiologist from a Central European context. The Ecumenical Review, 66 (1). pp. 72-81. ISSN 1758-6623
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It is a matter of course that the scope of the present paper does not allow for a comprehensive treatment of such a theologically rich and complex text as TTL. It can, therefore, aspire to no more than offering a couple of examples of the aforementioned contextual reading of TTL as well as of some commentaries on this ecumenical affirmation. The article consists of two main parts. First, it seeks to read some claims of TTL on systemic oppression and life-denying structures through the lenses of post-Communist experience in order to show directions in which Christians from Central Europe could possibly enrich the oikoumene and its understandings of mission and evangelism. In its second part, the paper goes on to discuss the issue of mission and creation in order to show possible ways in which TTL could be used as inspiration for thought and action. It is especially in this part of the present article that not only the affirmation itself, but also an emerging “pool of tradition” is taken into account, representing a growing number of contributions by missiologists and mission practitioners from various branches of Christianity who comment on TTL. In this way a much needed dialog between the text (TTL) and various contexts (represented by scholars, mission practitioners, church policy makers, Christian educators, and other commentators and “unpackers”) as well as among various “contextual voices” (i.e. the aforementioned commentators on TTL) themselves can be pursued.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Subjects: | B Mission theology/theory B Mission theology/theory > Evangelism/Proclamation of Gospel D World Christianity and Central Eastern Europe > Europe E Evangelical and Ecumenical Networks and Dialogues in Central Eastern Europe > Networks and Church Fellowships > World Council of Churches |
| Divisions: | Central Europe > Czech Republic |
| Depositing User: | Terry Vanderslice |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Sep 2021 15:42 |
| Last Modified: | 16 Jan 2022 15:48 |
| URI: | https://ceeamsprints.osims.org/id/eprint/2089 |
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