Arthur Davis is an Aussie living in Tanzania, writing at meetjesusatuni.com.
The Reformation is a hot topic with the likes of the New Calvinists. How should we approach the Reformation today? The two textbooks for our study tour have a lot to teach us. Bernd Moeller, Imperial Cities and the Reformation: Three Essays (Durham: Labyrinth Press, 1982) Steven E. Ozment, The Reformation […]
I like following Michael Jensen’s movements — he’s older, smarter, wiser, and more experienced than me! In recent times, he’s been doing a lot of things other than blogging, but he’s just put up some good stuff about why we shouldn’t use Bible references… Here.
We recently had a look at contextualisation with David Williams (spotted here). In this post, I want to raise further questions about how we go about crossing cultures…
His family were pretty miffed. He was an aristocratic Italian and the nephew of a cardinal. Now, not only had he joined the Jesuits, he had decided to move to South India!
Mission is not a Western business! This post opens up some of the headshifts that we need to make (as I suggested last post). It’s based on an ‘Issues in Missiology’ class; the material is largely from David Williams.
When we left Adelaide at the end of 2008, Tamie and I were exploring ministry in Europe. Last year, those plans changed, particularly when we heard about a potential opportunity in Tanzania! In a few weeks’ time, we’re off to Europe with 44 other Ridley students for the Reformation History […]
Suppose a company of serious Christians, ministers and private persons, were to form themselves into a society… For all Protestant Christianity’s concern for right doctrine, it had a pretty rusty record in terms of mission during its first 200 years. But William Carey, ostensibly the father of Protestant missions, helped […]
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