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In this second volume of his three-volume Intercultural Theology, Henning Wrogemann turns to theologies of mission. Mission theologies, he argues, are found in a wide range of implicit as well as explicit forms, from the practice of Christian presence by a Pakistani Christian among a marginalized people to the published deliberations of mission scholars in the West. The task of intercultural...

Orthodox churches has its own profile specific to its own context. Nevertheless, I believe it is possible to outline a few basic principles of Orthodox missiology on the basis of Ion Bria’s framework. Here it is the liturgical event of the Eucharist and not so much biblical references such as Matthew 28 or Luke 4 that provides the paradigm for mission. The Orthodox model may be called a mission of theosis: the aim is to incorporate the cosmos into the mystery of divine salvation. This paradigm is
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