TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bevans,Stephen B.
AU  - Schroeder,Roger
TI  - Constants in context: a theology of mission for today 
T2  - American Society of Missiology series
SN  - 9781570755170
AV  - BV2061.3 .B48 2004
U1  - 266 B571C 22
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Maryknoll, NY.
PB  - Orbis Books
KW  - Missions
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-466) and index; "Missionary by its very nature" : context and the church's mission -- "You are witnesses of these things" : constants in the church's mission -- Mission in the early church (100-301) : individual Christians in a variety of situations -- Mission and the monastic movement (313-907) : from Constantine to the decline of the T'ang dynasty -- Mission and the mendicant movement (1000-1453) : crusades, preachers, nuns and Mongolian Christianity -- Mission in the age of discovery (1492-1773) : conquistadors, prophets and gurus -- Mission in the age of progress (1792-1914) : civilizers, evangelizers and volunteer societies -- Mission in the twentieth century (1919-1991) : the emergence of world Christianity -- Mission as participation in the mission of the triune God (missio Dei) -- Mission as liberating service of the reign of God -- Mission as proclamation of Jesus Christ as universal Savior -- Mission as prophetic dialogue -- Concluding reflections : on being constant in today's context
ER  -