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Missiological Framework in Africa
Author(s) -
Isaak Paul John
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
international review of mission
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.118
H-Index - 11
eISSN - 1758-6631
pISSN - 0020-8582
DOI - 10.1111/irom.12288
Subject(s) - spirituality , praxis , context (archaeology) , power (physics) , sociology , environmental ethics , theology , law , history , political science , archaeology , philosophy , medicine , physics , alternative medicine , pathology , quantum mechanics
This article has three parts. First, it deals with the understanding of mission in the context of Namibia. Second, it offers a profile of African spirituality and its politico‐socio‐economic implications, or with the missionary orthopraxis , in light of the African parable of the awakening giant. And third, it focuses on the African missional church and its missionary praxis. The paper argues that the triune God creates the church and sustains it through the gifts of word and sacrament by the power of the Spirit. Such a missional church understands its participation in God's mission ( missio Dei) as contextual by addressing faithfully the challenges in a comprehensive and holistic way.