Engaging God's Mission and Diakonia in Life of Public Spheres: Justification and Economic Justice |
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| Authors: | Paul S. Chung |
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| Affiliation: | Paul S. Chung is Associate Professor of Mission and World Christianity at Luther Seminary, St. Paul, MN. His books related to the missio Dei and missional‐multicultural church include Martin Luther and Buddhism: Aesthetics of Suffering 2nd ed (2002), Karl Barth: God's Word in Action (2008), Christian Mission and a Diakonia of Reconciliation, 2nd ed. (2010), and Constructing Irregular Theology (2009), among others. |
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Abstract : This article approaches the theology of mission from the point of view of God's mission and diakonia, seeking a missional model of the grace of justification and economic justice in an age of World Christianity. The author engages a hermeneutical‐prophetic side of evangelization—viva vox evangelii—in the public sphere, and demonstrates the intrinsic connection between missio and diakonia Dei in Jesus Christ using a trinitarian‐hermeneutical perspective. The article shows that evangelization as God's mission occupies a central place by taking into account challenges from the postcolonial emancipation in the context of Empire. |
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| Keywords: | missio and diakonia Dei trinitarian theology of mission irregularity of word‐event parrhē sia world christianity empire |
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