Changing Tides : Latin America and World Mission Today

by Escobar, Samuel E.

• ISBN13: 9781570754142
• ISBN10: 1570754144
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-06-01
• Publisher: Orbis Books

Summary

Changing Tides explains the history of Christianity in Latin America, draws a picture of "popular Protestantism" as it is emerging today, and offers suggestions for Latin American missioners while showing the difference they can make in world mission.

Author Biography

Samuel Escobar, a native of Peru, is the Thornley B. Wood Professor of Missiology at Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Wynnewood, Pennsylvania and consultant for theological education in Spain under International Ministries, American Baptist Churches

Table of Contents

Preface to the ASM Series	xi
Preface	xiii
List of Abbreviations	xv
PART ONE THE CHANGING FACE OF CHRISTIAN WORLD MISSION TODAY
Christian Mission Today	3	(7)
New Frontiers	6	(1)
A New Fact at the Turn of the Century	7	(3)
Mission Today: Practice and Reflection	10	(13)
The Nature of Missiological Reflection	12	(1)
Reflection in the Light of the Word	12	(1)
Missiology and History	13	(2)
Missiology and Social Sciences	15	(3)
Missiological Currents in the Evangelical Field	18	(5)
PART TWO MISSION IN LATIN AMERICA
Latin America: Mission Land	23	(12)
A Contradictory Mission Situation	23	(1)
Latin America as Mission Field	24	(4)
Development of a Catholic Approach	28	(4)
Missionaries for the Evangelization of Latin America	32	(3)
Lessons from Missionary History	35	(10)
Lessons of History	35	(2)
Beyond the ``Black Legend''	37	(1)
Methodological Comparisons	38	(1)
The Objective of Mission in the Catholic Tradition	38	(3)
The Objective of Mission in the Protestant Tradition	41	(2)
Some Conclusions	43	(2)
The Social Impact of Mission	45	(14)
Empire and Mission: Ambiguities of Missionary Action	45	(1)
Constantinian Church and Mission	46	(1)
The Protestant Missions	47	(12)
From Mission to Liberation	59	(18)
Postwar Missionary Efforts in Latin America	61	(4)
Medellin, a Time of Renewal	65	(2)
A New Understanding of the Being of the Church	67	(2)
A New Understanding of the Message of the Church	69	(2)
A New Missionary Method: Pastoral Renewal	71	(3)
Conclusion	74	(3)
PART THREE MISSIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON POPULAR PROTESTANTISM
Popular Protestantism: A Missiological Perspective	77	(11)
The Pentecostal Fact	78	(1)
A Grassroots Kind of Protestantism	79	(3)
The Sociological Factors	82	(2)
Christianity's Great Shift Southward	84	(4)
Popular Protestantism and Catholic Missiology	88	(11)
Sect: The Construction of an Image	88	(2)
What Can Catholics Learn?	90	(2)
Five Missiological Lessons	92	(4)
Changes in Catholicism	96	(3)
Missiological Reflection on Belief, Experience, Structure	99	(12)
Our Closest Protestant Relatives	100	(3)
The Holy Spirit and the Mission of the Church	103	(4)
Learning from the Poor	107	(4)
From Mission to Theology	111	(20)
Toward an Evangelical Theology of Mission	111	(2)
Evangelical Missiology after Lausanne	113	(2)
The Search for a Missiological Christology in Latin America	115	(3)
From Christology to Social Ethics	118	(2)
A Missiological Christology	120	(7)
Rediscovery of Kingdom Theology	127	(1)
Mission from the Periphery	128	(3)
Mission Theology from Pentecost to the Twenty-First Century	131	(22)
Pentecostal Missiology	134	(3)
The Pneumatological Question	137	(4)
Ecclesiology, Social Analysis, and Missiology	141	(3)
Gospel and Power: Church Facing the World	144	(3)
Eschatology, the Spirituality of Manana	147	(6)
PART FOUR MISSION FROM LATIN AMERICA
Mission from Latin America	153	(13)
Youth, Pioneers in the History of Mission	154	(2)
Missionary Vision in Brazil, the Congress of Curitiba (1976)	156	(2)
Emergence of COMIBAM (1987)	158	(2)
Missionary Concern in Catholic Circles	160	(2)
Two Models of Mission out of Poverty	162	(1)
Churches in Time of Mission	163	(3)
Formation of the Transcultural Missionary	166	(11)
Biblical Formation for Mission	167	(1)
The Bible in Protestant Missionary Practice	168	(2)
Formation of Vocation and Missionary Style	170	(1)
The Biblical Content of Missionary Action	171	(2)
Christian Mission and Cultures	173	(2)
A Profound Change of Attitude	175	(2)
Notes	177	(22)
Index	199