World Christianity and Inter-Religious Relations: Missionsvetenskap med Ekumenik. Toward a Definition of Mission Studies

Abstract

The article discusses contemporary trends in the Mission and Ecumenical Studies in the context of World Christianity and Inter-Religious Relations. It engages with late 20th century scholarship, particularly relating to Christianity in Africa and Asia, and interacts with the paradigm-analysis of Mission Studies as advanced by David J. Bosch in his Transforming Mission: Paradigm Shifts in Theology of Mission (Maryknoll: Orbis, 1991).