Transcending the Modern Mission Tradition

By Michael W. Stroope

The urgent task of our day is to reimagine the church’s witness to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Yet, a mere attempt to rehabilitate or revise the modern mission tradition will not do. Mission as a rhetorical and conceptual framework is the problem. The ethos and spirit of modernity with its ideas of progress, individualism, commodification, and conquest are hardwired into mission, and thus, this modern mental model undermines faithful witness and service. Now is the time to transcend the modern mission tradition – to become pilgrim witnesses.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Regnum Books International
• Release date: May 11, 2020
• ISBN: 9781913363383

Michael W. Stroope

Michael W. Stroope (PhD, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary) is associate professor of Christian missions and the M.C. Shook Chair of Missions at Truett Theological Seminary, Baylor University. Stroope served as a missionary for twenty-one years under the International Mission Board in Sri Lanka, England, Germany and Hong Kong.

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