Leading in Global-Glocal Missional Contexts: Learning from the Journey of the Wycliffe Global Alliance
The journey of the Wycliffe Global Alliance (WGA) is an example of how some paradigm shifts are influencing leading in mission. Since Christianity is both an agent and product of globalization, its beliefs have spread from one source to another, crossing religious, linguistic and cultural contexts....
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage
[2017]
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Transformation
Year: 2017, Volume: 34, Issue: 4, Pages: 282-300 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture CH Christianity and Society RJ Mission; missiology |
| Further subjects: | B
Glocalization
B Friendship B third spaces B Polycentrism B Africanization B Missio Dei |
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| Summary: | The journey of the Wycliffe Global Alliance (WGA) is an example of how some paradigm shifts are influencing leading in mission. Since Christianity is both an agent and product of globalization, its beliefs have spread from one source to another, crossing religious, linguistic and cultural contexts. As a result, there are polycentric or multiple centres of influence since Christianity has homes within a diversity of contexts. This carries with it various implications including how partnering in mission needs to be deconceptualized through greater emphasis on friendship. In order for this to happen as a missiological principle, third spaces may need to be created. Viewed against the backdrop of church and mission agency leadership, structures may be stuck in the Industrial Era' (Uhl-Bien et al., 2007: 298). Therefore, the stage is set for exploring how these and other themes influence leadership in God's mission. |
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| ISSN: | 1759-8931 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Transformation
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0265378817724343 |