Missions and money : affluence as a western missionary problem
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- Author
- Bonk, Jon, 1945-
- Publication Date
- c1991
- Material Type
- Book : Paper
- Location
- U. of T. Libraries
- Call Number
- BV 2063 B63 1990
- Author
- Bonk, Jon, 1945-
- Place of Publication
- Maryknoll NY
- Publisher
- Orbis Books
- Publication Date
- c1991
- Physical Description
- xxi, 170 p. ; 23.5 x 15.2 cm.
- Material Type
- Book : Paper
- Notes
- "[By] Jonathan J. Bonk".
- Includes bibliography: p. 156-168 and index.
- "As is the case with long-established churches, 'mission' churches founded and supported by Northern churches in the South cannot exist without money; but neither do they necessarily thrive if money is available in abundance. Dramatically illustrating and calling attention to this problem, we have in our hands a penetrating discussion of missions and money by Jonathan Bonk, a Canadian Mennonite. A basic argument of this book is that an imbalance in the relative wealth of evangelizer-missionaries and those among whom they work distorts the transmission and inculturation of the Gospel. Professor Bonk makes a cogent argument for this thesis, chiefly as it applies to Protestant missions, and especially to those from North America". -- Foreword, p. ix.
- Contents: Preface to the Series / James A. Scherer, Chair, Mary Motte, Charles R. Taber, ASM Series Editorial Committee -- Foreword: Missions and Foreign Money / Walbert Buhlmann -- Foreword: Wealthy Missionaries: an African Viewpoint / Zablon Nthamburi -- Introduction -- Part I: The Context of Western Missionary Affluence -- The Fact and Extent of Western Missionary Affluence -- The Historical and Cultural Context of Missionary Affluence -- The Rational for Missionary Affluence -- Part II: Consequences of Western Missionary Affluence -- Relational Costs of Missionary Affluence -- Communicatory and Strategic Consequences of Missionary Affluence -- Theological, Ethical, and Biblical Considerations on Missionary Affluence -- Part III: The Challenge of Western Missionary Affluence -- Grappling with Affluence -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index.
- Series
- American Society of Missiology series ; 15
- Added Entry
- Buhlmann, Walbert, 1916-2007
- Nthamburi, Zablon (Zablon John), 1943-
- Subjects
- Missions - Theory
- Wealth - Religious aspects - Christianity
- Christianity and culture
- East and West
- Missions - Controversial literature
- Missionaries - Controversial literature
- ISBN
- 0-88344-718-5
- Call Number
- BV 2063 B63 1990
- Location
- U. of T. Libraries