Mass Evangelistic Theology and Methodology and the 1987 Luis Palau Mission to Auckland
| Autor: | Bryan Gilling |
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| Rok vydání: | 1991 |
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| Zdroj: | Transformation: An International Journal of Holistic Mission Studies. 8:9-14 |
| ISSN: | 1759-8931 0265-3788 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/026537889100800103 |
| Popis: | The Luis Palau Mission to Auckland in 1987 attracted major criticism from four Anglican bishops. This centred on the question of the ability of a foreign evangelist to address the Gospel with prophetic relevance to the social situation in New Zealand. The actual response to the mission indicated that the problem of an America-oriented, male, foreign evangelist was not insuperable. The debate illustrated the age-old tension between the established Christianity of the system and the critique of the itinerant evangelist. But the debate missed the important issues of the inclusion of Roman Catholic participation; the possibility of dissociating mass evangelism from North American evangelicalism; the Arminian insistence on human decision; how to preach an immanentist theology in an evangelistic style; the extent to which a guest evangelist can be a prophet in a host country; and the actual function of such crusades in encouraging the faithful rather than converting the unfaithful. |
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