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Recovering Missional Ecclesiology in Theological Education
Author(s) -
Laing Mark
Publication year - 2009
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/j.1758-6631.2009.00002.x
Subject(s) - ecclesiology , missiology , protestantism , theology , sociology , agency (philosophy) , christianity , evangelism , ecumenism , religious studies , environmental ethics , philosophy , social science
The first part of this paper seeks to demonstrate how predominant Christianity, under Christendom, divorced mission from ecclesiology, and marginalized missiology from the theological curriculum. This is not only a problem for the west, as this model was then exported and replicated worldwide through the agency of the Protestant missionary movement. In the second part the paper explores the factors which have led us to a more adequate ecclesiology. Since we have recovered the missionary dimension in ecclesiology the paper argues that this must also be reflected in our theological curriculum.