Title:

Mission and Dialogue

Author(s):

Knitter, Paul

Date:

2005

Type:

Articles

Department:

Union Theological Seminary

Volume:

33

Permanent URL:

http://hdl.handle.net/10022/AC:P:12977

Book/Journal Title:

Missiology

Abstract:

Given the seismic shift from church-centeredness to kingdom-centeredness in the Christian understanding of mission, given the growing awareness that to pursue the kingdom as Jesus did requires a preferential concern for the poor and marginalized, given the recognition that Jesus went about his ministry by means of a self-emptying dialogue with others—putting together all three of these new perspectives in Christian theology, we can describe the contemporary Christian understanding of mission as follows: Mission is dialogue with others in service of God's kingdom for the poor and marginalized. In such mission-as-dialogue, conversion remains a goal, but it is primarily (not exclusively) conversion to the service of God's kingdom.

Subject(s):

Religion
Theology

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