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“The Church will have no future if it simply extrapolates into the future the path it took in the past. It will only have a future if it anticipates the kingdom of God in Jesus’ name and is prepared to be converted to his future, freeing itself from imprisonment in the past,” Jürgen Moltmann writes in the preface to The Church in the Power of the Spirit, a book that sets the doctrine of the...

Christians came into being, together with the lay apostleship. As faith was transferred to the private sphere and the modes of belief in society multiplied, ecumenical movements arose. It is important to see the start of missionary activity in this historical context. It is not merely a Christian answer to the discovery of unknown continents; it is also an answer to the changed situation in Europe itself. Consequently it has significance not merely for the spread of the Christian faith in Africa
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