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Christianity Encountering World Religions: The Practice of Mission in the Twenty-First Century is unavailable, but you can change that!

Given the unique religious climate of the twenty-first century and the challenges to Christian mission it poses, Christianity Encountering World Religions proposes a new, albeit very biblical, model for mission. Specifically, it is a model for interacting with people of other faiths. The authors term this model “giftive mission,” as it is based on the metaphor of free gift. They suggest that...

Often lost in the modern missiological clamor to learn about other cultures and religions as a basis for doing cross-cultural mission is the recognition that faithful mission begins with a penetrating knowledge of ourselves. No one has objective knowledge of the world. Rather, our understandings are framed by our background and experiences. The personal experiences and “situated” knowledge that have shaped our social and religious reality also shape our approach to mission. Awareness of our own ways
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