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- Title
PRACTICING EVANGELISM FROM THE BELLY OF THE BEAST: TRANSCENDENCE AND TRANSGRESSION IN THE MISSIOLOGIES OF M.R. SHAULL AND O.E. COSTAS.
- Authors
Santiago-Vendrell, Angel D.
- Abstract
This article uses the missiologies of Richard Shaull and Orlando Costas as correctives to evangelical methods of evangelism that tend to be a-historical, a-cultural and imperialistic. The article also criticizes North American civil religion as a phenomenon that legitimizes conservative politics and denigrates and dilutes Jesus's message of radical discipleship. First, Shaull is used as a missionary model of someone who throughout his career took the poor and oppressed us the starting point for missiological reflection. He challenged Christians to transcend and transgress those church structures that are counterproductive to the reign of God, Orlando Castas's contextual evangelism from the "periphery" is also used as a corrective to evangelical mission that tends to spiritualize Christ and lacks serious social engagement. The article concludes with a visionary strategy of confrontation against power structures and a new way of moving forward based on those at the margins.
- Subjects
NORTH America; EVANGELISTIC work; TRANSCENDENCE (Philosophy); MISSIOLOGY; SHAULL, Richard; COSTAS, Orlando; CIVIL religion
- Publication
International Review of Mission, 2008, Vol 97, Issue 386/387, p292
- ISSN
0020-8582
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1758-6631.2008.tb00646.x