Prof. David Dunn-Wilson
Why is the global mission scene as it is and how does our mission fit into it?
“Roots and Branches” - the concept of mission affected by its context
THE EUROPEAN OPTION
PHASE ONE
THE CHRISTENDOM MODEL
Ecclesiastical
Doctrinal and Exclusive
Pope Boniface VII “it is altogether necessary for salvation for every human creature to be subject to the Roman Pontiff”
Ecclesiastical Doctrinal and Exclusive Coercive and Corporate
Pope Innocent VII The Inquisition at work
Ecclesiastical Doctrinal and Exclusive Coercive and Corporate Eurocentric
Orthodox (East) Roman Catholic (West) OOrtOOh oOOOOO OOdox (East)
THE PROTESTANT MODEL
Ecclesiastically Diverse External Church ’ True’ Church
Ecclesiastically Diverse Biblical and Homiletical
Ecclesiastically Diverse Biblical and Homiletical Individualistic
Protestant Roman Catholic Orthodox Moslem
PHASE TWO Later Developments
THE ROMAN CATHOLIC MODEL
The Catholic Model Global Mission
March 1493
“Donated” to Portugal May 1493
Indigenous people enslaved
Pope Gregory XV The Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith 1622
The Catholic Model Global Mission Exclusivism
“ Pope Pius XII “Servants of error” “Separated brethren”
Pope John XXIII The Second Vatican Council
Pope Benedict “We pray that the primacy of Peter will be increasingly recognized in Its true meaning by brothers who are still not in communion with us” St.Peter’s Square June 2006
THE ORTHODOX MODEL
THE ORTHODOX CHURCH
Roman Catholic Orthodox
Mystical Theology (Theosis) “God made himself man that we might become God”
Mystical Theology Incarnational Mission
Incarnational Mission The means of mission: political The motive of mission: Glorifying God The purpose of mission: theosis The instrument of mission: worship The nature of mission: contextual
Mystical Theology Incarnational Mission Theological Completeness
“The One Church is the Orthodox Church; the one faith is the whole Orthodox faith”
Mystical Theology Incarnational Mission TheologicalCompleteness Innate Conservatism
THE PROTESTANT MODEL
The Rise of Evangelicalism
Personal religious conviction Personal holiness Preaching Bible Study
The aim of mission individual conversion incorporation into a church
Universal All must be saved All can be saved All can know that they are saved All can be saved to the uttermost
Universal Reasonable “ to renounce reason is to renounce religion” (John Wesley)
Universal Reasonable Socially Aware
Universal Reasonable Socially Aware Essentially missionary
David Livingstone Hudson Taylor Mary Slessor
PHASE THREE The Transatlantic Shift
REVIVALISM
Mass evangelism Personal Conversion Holiness of life.
PENTECOSTALISM
William J. Seymour Pentecostalism
Pentecostalism The Azusa Street Mission in Los Angeles
The Appeal of Pentecostalism Charismatic Theocentric and Experiential Biblical and Ecumenical Contextual
PHASE FOUR The Rejection of Europe
Roman Catholicism Orthodox Protestantism Evangelicalism Pentecostalism
Colonial troops In action
Graves of Commonwealth troops
MORITORIUM!
“The African church could have performed a service in redeeming God’s people in the Northern Hemisphere from a distorted view of the mission of the church in the world”
Where now?