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

EcclesiasticalDoctrinal and Exclusive

PopeBonifaceVII

“it is altogethernecessary for salvation forevery humancreature to besubject to theRoman 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)

OOrtOOhoOOOOOOOdox(East)

THE PROTESTANT MODEL

Ecclesiastically Diverse

External Church

’ True’ Church

Ecclesiastically Diverse Biblical and Homiletical

Ecclesiastically DiverseBiblical and HomileticalIndividualistic

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

PopeGregory XV

The Sacred Congregationfor the Propagationof the Faith1622

The Catholic Model

Global MissionExclusivism

“Pope Pius XII “Servants of error”

“Separated brethren”

Pope JohnXXIII

The SecondVatican Council1962-1965

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 ORTHODOXCHURCH

RomanCatholic

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

1635-1705

Personal religious convictionPersonal holinessPreachingBible 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

UniversalReasonable “to renounce reason is to renounce

religion” (John Wesley)

Universal Reasonable Socially Aware

UniversalReasonableSocially AwareEssentially missionary

David Livingstone

Hudson Taylor

Mary Slessor

PHASE THREE

The Transatlantic Shift

REVIVALISM

Mass evangelismPersonal ConversionHoliness of life.

PENTECOSTALISM

William J.Seymour

Pentecostalism

Pentecostalism

The AzusaStreetMission inLos 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 troopsIn 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?