the ecumenical movement beginning with the 1938 Tambaram (Madras) International Missionary Council (IMC) meeting. This opened up a discussion that continued through the rest of the century on what it means, theologically and practically, for the church—for any and every local church—to participate in God’s mission. Missiology Applied to the West It was J. E. Lesslie Newbigin, English Presbyterian missionary to India, who developed missional thought for the Western church. His writings, especially
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