Mission and Development (eBook, ePUB)

God's Work or Good Works?
Redaktion: Clarke, Matthew

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book considers the implications, consequences, opportunities and constraints faced when mission and development endeavours coincide. This is explored from various perspectives, including that of history, theology and those involved in mission work and missionary organizations. Despite eighty per cent of the world's population professing religious belief, religion has been largely excluded from consideration of those seeking to achieve development in poorer countries. Moreover, the work of missionaries has often involved the provision of basic welfare services that in many parts of the world predate the interventions undertaken by 'professional' secular aid workers. Are missionaries doing development work or is development a critical aspect of mission?

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780826444943
• Artikelnr.: 60090049

Autorenporträt

Matthew Clarke is Associate Professor and Head of the School of International and Political Studies, Deakin University, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Good and God: Development and Mission Matthew Clarke Part
I: History and Setting 2. Washing Our Dirty Feet: Christ and Development
Jonathan Ryan 3. Christian Mission at the Crossroad of Development:
Biblical and Magisterial Perspectives Jacob Kavunkal SVD Part II: Theology
of Mission and Development 4. Fiji's Methodist Mission and its Role in
Development through Education, Agriculture and Self-Governance in the early
Twentieth Century Kirstie Close 5. God i givim ples ya long yumi (God has
given us this land): The Role of the Church in Building Pacific nations
Matthew Clarke 6. The God Factor: Adventism, Medical Missionaries and
'Development' in Papua New Guinea Brad Watson Part III: Case Studies:
Mission Organisations and Development 7. The Micah Mandate: An Evangelical
View Steve Bradbury 8. Palms Australia: Missionaries, International
Development Volunteers and Beyond: Prophetic Wisdom for Cross-Cultural
Engagement Roger O'Halloran 9. Blurring Mission and Development in the
Mennonite Central Committee Philip Fountain 10. Uniting World: Partnership
for Effective Involvement in Mission including Development Kerry Enright
and Vicki-Ann Ware 11. Mission and the Wane of the Secular Gerhard
Hoffstaedter and Matthew Clarke Index