Open AccessVIGS — dié keer deur ’n Sendingkundige bril
Author(s) -
P.G.J. Meiring
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
verbum et ecclesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.386
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 2074-7705
pISSN - 1609-9982
DOI - 10.4102/ve.v10i2.1004
Subject(s) - globe , missiology , subject (documents) , pandemic , sociology , theology , history , covid-19 , philosophy , medicine , disease , library science , pathology , computer science , infectious disease (medical specialty) , ophthalmology
AIDS from a missiological angle As concern for the rising pandemic, AIDS, continues to grow across the globe, so does the body of books, articles, and conference resolutions devoted to the subject. Theologians, too, had no option but to take serious note of the black death of modem times. Since 1981, when the disease was first identified and named, numerous documents in the field of missions and missiology have been published, looking at the dangers and challenges of the AIDS era, from their own peculiar vantage point