The church in North America is in crisis, but this can be understood as a strategic opportunity. After enjoying a position of prestige and influence in society for several centuries, the modern church is becoming incrreasingly marginal. Postmodern people do not feel at home in the conventional modern church. Concern for the future of the church since the 1980s has resulted in new missiololgical and theololgical work concerning the nature and mission of the church. The traditional ecclesio-centric understanding of mission, inherited from Christendom, must be replaced by a theo-centric understandijng based on the Mission of God, that is the missio Dei. For modern churches to become missional will require a deep reformation, a fundamental reorientation of ecclesial life in North American churches.
목차
Abstract Introduction Developments since 1945 Discerning the new reality Developments in North America: the 1990s The Missional Church Project: 1995-1998 Developments since 2000 Conclusion
키워드
North AmericaChristendomgospel and culturecrisis of the churchsecularizationmodenitypostmo
장로회신학대학교 세계선교연구원 [CENTER FOR WORLD MISSION PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE AND THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY]
설립연도
1974
분야
인문학>기독교신학
소개
본 연구원은 '모든 족속으로 제자를 삼으라'는 주님의 지상명령과 '와서 우리를 도우라'는 온 세계의 부름에 응답하기 위하여 선교사 파송훈련, 외국교회 지도자들의 신학교육 등 전문적인 선교지도자 인력 양성을 위한 선교 훈련프로그램과 학술강좌, 학술세미나 등 선교문제를 그 목적으로 한다.