I just finished reading a book titled Sent Forth: African Missionary Work in the West by Harvey C. Kwiyani. It is basically about an African Lutheran working as a missionary in the United States expressing his views on how the missionary movement has taken a ´blessed reflex´ - a shift from the West spreading Christianity, to the non-Western missionary invigorating Christianity in the West!
It makes interesting reading. Most lovely aspect that appealed to me is that the author presents a very unbiased picture of the various Christian denominations. He gives a rather fair treatment of the topic without over emphasising or simplifying one ´Church´ over or below the other. His basic premise is not too difficult to identify and he sticks on to it all through - very convincingly and rather tenaciously!
His constant jargon: Mission is now from all to all... the era of the West monopolizing evangelization is dying. Christianity is turning ´darker´ in colour! (Referring to the growing numbers of Latin Americans, Africans and Asians, who are replacing the diminishing Europeans, among the Christian population). It is no more the religion only of the ´fair skin´. Though not very scientific or scholarly in its content, the experiential and historical flavour of the text is appealing.
It makes interesting reading. Most lovely aspect that appealed to me is that the author presents a very unbiased picture of the various Christian denominations. He gives a rather fair treatment of the topic without over emphasising or simplifying one ´Church´ over or below the other. His basic premise is not too difficult to identify and he sticks on to it all through - very convincingly and rather tenaciously!
His constant jargon: Mission is now from all to all... the era of the West monopolizing evangelization is dying. Christianity is turning ´darker´ in colour! (Referring to the growing numbers of Latin Americans, Africans and Asians, who are replacing the diminishing Europeans, among the Christian population). It is no more the religion only of the ´fair skin´. Though not very scientific or scholarly in its content, the experiential and historical flavour of the text is appealing.
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