oa Missionalia : Southern African Journal of Mission Studies - Listening to all the Saints: Precondition for a responsible hermeneutics for mission

Abstract

Conference papers and deliberations like, the ones recorded in this volume on African initiatives in Christian Missionary are extraordinarily valuable because they have the potential capacity for helping, us find answers to the perennial, vitally important question regarding, the nature and task of the Christian church. What is the duty of Chriistians and churches in mission? What does the ""enactment of the Christian good news"". (Daneel 1997) entail? Where do we find the wherewithal for articulating a responsible hermeneutics for mission"" (Gort 1:996:68)? What is 'the church and, what is it required to do in the world?