Insights from the Sociology of Religion for Movements to Christ among Muslims
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For a few years now, missiological. literature.has.discussed. the.possibility,.acceptability,.viability,.and.shape.of.movements. to. Christ. among. adherents. of. non-Christian. communities. without a formation of formally recognized.“Christian.churches”. among.them..A.particular.focus. of these writings is such movements in the Muslim world. Much.of.the.deliberations.on. these.“insider.movements”.deals. with biblical aspects (see Higgins 2004;.Massey.2004a.and.2004b;. and.Woods.2003).and.missiological issues in the narrow sense of the word (see, e.g., Dutch 2000; Gilliland.1999.and.2000;.Massey. 1999,. 2000,. and. 2004c;. Piper. et. al.. 2006;. and. Travis. 1999a,. 1999b,. and. 2000).. This. is. not. surprising, for it is these two fields that matter most for missionaries,.missiologists,.mission. administrators,. and. indeed. for. anyone who desires to see all nations receiving a witness of Christ.. In.the.strictly.missiological.articles.on.this.topic,.major.issues. in.this.debate.have.been.the.theology.of.mission,.mission.theory,. practical.experiences,.and.contextualization. Yet the ramifications.of.such.movements.are.so. complex. that. a. large. variety. of. theological. issues. are. touched. as well in these publications, including.ecclesiology,.soteriology,. Christology,.the.doctrine.of.God,. hermeneutics,. the. theology. of. religions,.and.ethics;.thus,.most. aspects.of.Christian.theology.are. involved in one way or another. Since this issue is indeed “[o]ne of the most significant missiological. innovations. in. the. past. quarter century” (Whiteman 2000),. it. is. not. surprising. that. even.Seventh-day.Adventists.are. debating. this.matter. (Coleman. 2004;.Doss.2005;.Schantz.2004;. and.Whitehouse. 1992,. 1993,. 1998,.and.2001).
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