Essential Alternatives to Contemporary Missionary Training: For the Sake of Vulnerability to the Majority World (Africa)
When the only advice on offer is unhelpful, a potential missionary might need to be advised to seek an alternative. Jesus, we take it, was not building a worldly empire (John 18:36). Christian mission has become associated with colonialism. Dominant advice often pushes Western missionaries to positi...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
| Vérifier la disponibilité: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2019]
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| Dans: |
Transformation
Année: 2019, Volume: 36, Numéro: 4, Pages: 266-279 |
| Classifications IxTheo: | CD Christianisme et culture HC Nouveau Testament KBN Afrique subsaharienne RJ Mission |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Translation
B Language B Africa B Development B Mission B Aid |
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Volltext (Resolving-System) |
| Résumé: | When the only advice on offer is unhelpful, a potential missionary might need to be advised to seek an alternative. Jesus, we take it, was not building a worldly empire (John 18:36). Christian mission has become associated with colonialism. Dominant advice often pushes Western missionaries to positions of strength. In order to be vulnerable, one needs an alternative to such advice. Economic domination of Africa by the West makes it hard to know when Africa's people, long engrossed in patron/client relationships, are not talking for power. Use of English to describe Africa leads to massive false imputing of Western histories onto African societies. A little linguistic wisdom exposes the naivety of many contemporary understandings of the acumen of translation. |
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| ISSN: | 1759-8931 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Transformation
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0265378819844537 |