Together towards Life: Mission and Evangelism in Changing Landscapes

The product of seven years' preparation, a new statement on mission and evangelism was presented to the World Council of Churches (WCC) during its Tenth Assembly, held in Busan, Republic of Korea, October 30—November 8, 2013. We reprint here (1) the Prologue, (2) extracts from the Introduction,...

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Published: Sage Publishing 2014
In: International bulletin of mission research
Year: 2014, Volume: 38, Issue: 2, Pages: 68-70
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Summary:The product of seven years' preparation, a new statement on mission and evangelism was presented to the World Council of Churches (WCC) during its Tenth Assembly, held in Busan, Republic of Korea, October 30—November 8, 2013. We reprint here (1) the Prologue, (2) extracts from the Introduction, including affirmations and questions that frame the discussion found in the body of the statement, and (3) the Concluding Affirmations, which are printed in full.Elsewhere in this issue readers will find reflections on the Tenth Assembly itself and events leading up to it, offered by two persons who have played central roles within the WCC: S. Wesley Ariarajah, professor of ecumenical theology, Drew University School of Theology, Madison, New Jersey; and Jooseop Keum, director of the WCC's Commission on World Mission and Evangelism (CWME) and editor of the International Review of Mission. Reflections by senior mission scholars on “Together towards Life: Mission and Evangelism in Changing Landscapes” as a missiological statement will appear in a forthcoming issue of the IBMR.The full text of this important document appears in both PDF and HTML formats in the online edition of the IBMR. Go to “Together towards Life, Full Text” (HTML) or to “Together towards Life, Full Text” (PDF). The full text is also online at www.oikoumene.org/en/resources/documents/wcc-commissions/mission-and-evangelism/together-towards-life-mission-and-evangelism-in-changing-landscapes.The document plus auxiliary resources is available in printed form as Jooseop Keum, ed., Together towards Life: Mission and Evangelism in Changing Landscapes—with a Practical Guide (Geneva: WCC Publications, 2013), 92 pp. —Editors
ISSN:2396-9407
Contains:Enthalten in: International bulletin of mission research
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/239693931403800205