![]() ![]() ![]() Th e editors provide a useful introduc- tion (Cathy Ross) and an insightful afterword (Andrew Walls). Most authors come from the southern hemisphere, a majority from Africa, and all have cross-cultural experience just two are women. A second group of seven essays refl ects on varying global con- texts. Th e fi rst part contains fi ve pairs of essays on the fi ve marks of mission as articulated by the Anglican Communion. Stephen Neill once famously wrote, “If everything is mission, nothing is mission.” What then are we to make of missionary movements that have never been so multi-directional, disparate, and global as today? Can mission be as intentional as possible and also as broad as possible? Th ese essays inch towards that possibility. Maryknoll, New York, US, Orbis Books 2008. Edited by Andrew Walls.īook Reviews / Mission Studies 27 (2010) 91–138 127 Mission in the 21st Century: Exploring the Five Marks of Global Mission. Mission in the 21st Century: Exploring the Five Marks of Global Mission. Readers will learn about the situation facing the Adivasi tribes of India and discover the horrific stories of Salvadorians making their way across the Mexican border into the so-called land of promise, the United States.Mission in the 21st Century: Exploring the Five Marks of Global Mission. The diverse cultural and socio-economic contexts of the different authors and their ability to write out of those contexts alerts the reader to situations of oppression too often overlooked. The sixteen chapters provide carefully researched, stimulating reflections that readily persuade the reader to ponder anew the mystery of Jesus of Nazareth, and his mission and significance for the contemporary Christian. These responses from theologians represent one attempt to answer that challenging question. ![]() So he can hardly be the true Messiah, who, after all, is supposed to do just that” (3). In 2007, Pope Benedict XVI asked Christian scholars to consider a question asked by an imaginary Jewish rabbi: “So what has your ‘Messiah’ Jesus actually brought? He has not brought world peace, and he has not conquered the world’s misery. Part I, subtitled “Jesus of Galilee: Starting Points,” offers six interpretative frameworks that are helpful for those wishing to deepen their appreciation of context and experience as the privileged entry point for doing Readers will learn about the situation facing the Adivasi tribes of India and discover the horrific stories of Salvadorians making their way across the Mexican border into the so-called land of promise, the United States. ![]() Jesus of Galilee: Contextual Christology for the 21st Century. Maryknoll, New York, US, Orbis Books 2011. ![]()
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