Description
This book brings together Methodist scholars and reflective practitioners from around the world to consider how emerging practices of mission and evangelism shape contemporary theologies of mission.
Engaging contemporary issues including migration, nationalism, climate change, postcolonial contexts, and the growth of the Methodist church in the Global South, this book examines multiple forms of mission, including evangelism, education, health, and ministries of compassion. A global group of contributors discusses mission as no longer primarily a Western activity but an enterprise of the entire church throughout the world.
This volume will be of interest to researchers studying missiology, evangelism, global Christianity, and Methodism and to students of Methodism and mission.
Table of Contents
Foreword by Dana L. Robert
Introduction
David W. Scott and Darryl W. Stephens
Part I: Cultivating global relationships
1 The challenge of intercultural theology for Methodist theology in a global context
Hendrik R. Pieterse
2 Decolonizing Methodist mission partnerships
Taylor Walters Denyer
3 The economics of international mission
David W. Scott
Part II: Practicing contextual engagement
4 An Oceanic view of Methodist mission
Carmen C. Manalac-Scheuerman and Akanisi Tarabe
5 Interpreting Korean Bible women from a terracultural model of mission
K. Kale Yu
6 Creating a postcolonial future for United Methodist mission in Africa
Nelson Kalombo Ngoy
7 The impact of public health and education on mission in Southern Africa
Stephen J. H. Hendricks
8 Sororidad de Gracia as mission by, with, and for women in Latin America
Andrea Reily Rocha Soares
9 Diaspora missiology with anglophone Caribbean immigrants in the United States
Sheryl Marks-Williams
10 Healing a fractured salvation in North America
Mark R. Teasdale
Part III: Educating for missional formation
11 Divergent theologies of mission within United Methodism
Darryl W. Stephens
12 Dismantling structural eco-recklessness through zero-emission mission
Jenny Phillips
13 Empowering women in Africa through mission education
Elmira Sellu, Flory Atieno, Sara Jalloh, Jaka Joice, Rose Musooko, and Evelyn Ann Ouma
14 Fresh expressions of Methodist theological education
Jeffrey A. Conklin-Miller
15 A Wesleyan spirit of mission among Muslims
Sam Kim
Part IV: Discerning the future of mission together
16 A mission of hope and peace amid suffering
Mande Muyombo
17 Finding the future of Methodist world mission in lay migrant initiatives
Stephen Skuce
18 Turning mission upside down
Joy Eva Bohol
19 Methodist mission in an era of world Christianity
David W. Scott
