MISSION AND EVANGELISM
Objective of the Course
To help students understand the mandate of mission and evangelism
To help students understand different concepts of mission and evangelism
from the Bible and from history of missions.
To help students to understand different issues and challenges in mission
and evangelism with special emphasis to Indian context.
I. INTRODUCTION
1. Definition of Mission and Evangelism.
2. Mandate of Mission and Evangelism: The Great Commission
3. New Faces of Christianity: Mega Churches, Cyber Churches.
4. Shifting Centers: Geographical and Demographic Shift
II. BIBLICAL THEOLOGY OF MISSION
1. Mission in the Old Testament
2. Mission in the New Testament
3. Jesus Movement: A Missiological Perspective
4. Mission During the Apostolic Period
5. Mission of Paul
III. DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES AND APPROACHS TO MISSION
1. Roman Catholic Theology of Mission
2. Evangelical Theology of Mission
3. Orthodox Understanding of Mission
4. Pentecostal and Charismatic Theology of Mission
5. Ecumenical Theology of Mission.
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IV. ISSUES IN MISSION AND EVANGELISM
1 Denominational Rivalry (Comity Principle)
2 Mission to the Poor
3 Churchless Christianity
4 Mission and Conversion
5 Caste and Christianity (Reservation and Anti-Conversion Law in India)
V. Challenges in Mission and Evangelism.
1 Christianity and Emancipation of Women
2 Mission and Evangelism in the midst of Persecution
3 Fundamentalism, Communalism, Politicization of Religions
4 Ghar Wapsi (Reconversion Movement)
5 Mission and Evangelism in a Pluralistic Context
VI. New Trends in Mission and Evangelism
1 Indigenization in Mission
2 Ecological Concerns
3 New-Evangelization
4 Mission to the Nominal Christians
5 Mission and Evangelism to the Generation Z (Gen Z)
