Introduction MISSIONARY THEOLOGY IN BIBLICO-HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE CHRISTIAN MISSIONS makes sense only in the light of an existing abnormality or emergency and in the conviction that an answer to and remedy for such a malady is available. Therefore I address myself first of all to the malady or emergency which exists and which, from the historical and eternal perspective, demands action. The emergency is the fact of sin in the world which has overpowered and infected the human race and which threatens
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