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Mission's Changing Landscape: Global Flows and C hristian Movements
Author(s) -
Kim Kirsteen
Publication year - 2011
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.1758-6631.2011.00066.x
Subject(s) - scope (computer science) , political science , order (exchange) , world order , expression (computer science) , global citizenship , movement (music) , environmental ethics , political economy , sociology , economy , aesthetics , law , art , philosophy , business , computer science , economics , finance , politics , programming language
Since C hristianity is a world religion, changes in worldwide C hristianity both reflect and affect global affairs and transnational issues. From its inception the IRM has demonstrated this in its holistic approach and global scope. In its pages are developments in the global landscape over the last one hundred years, although with significant shifts in the contributors. These developments include the breakdown of imperial C hristendom and the rise of the present world order, how the people of the world are described and relate to one another, and the configuration of religions. Three trends in world C hristianity impinge on contemporary mission: the rise of independent C hristian movements and the migration of C hristians result in an ever‐increasing plurality of C hristian expression. In view of this, this article argues that mission should be contextual, mission theology expressed in pneumatological terms, and the church understood as a dynamic movement.