Resource use as hindrance to sustainable overseas development intervention: A view focused on Pentecostal Christianity
The use of outside resources (and global languages) seriously curtails the ability of intervening agents at engaging with non-western societies at an ontological depth. As a result the unhealthy, socially destructive, presuppositional level of people's lives may not be challenged. Intervention...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage
[2018]
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Missiology
Year: 2018, Volume: 46, Issue: 3, Pages: 251-267 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture KBN Sub-Saharan Africa KDG Free church RJ Mission; missiology |
| Further subjects: | B
Theology
B Poverty B Language B Africa B Development B Resources B Mission (international law |
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| Summary: | The use of outside resources (and global languages) seriously curtails the ability of intervening agents at engaging with non-western societies at an ontological depth. As a result the unhealthy, socially destructive, presuppositional level of people's lives may not be challenged. Intervention in the lives of the poor using outside resources can obscure the need to engage with people at ontological depth. A case study illustrates how engagement without resources can challenge deep presuppositions associated with poverty. Deep theological engagement with preexisting ontologies from a position of understanding is advocated as the means to premeditated sustainability. |
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| ISSN: | 2051-3623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Missiology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0091829618764860 |