World Christianities, Global Migration and Intercultural Missiology
World Christianities, Global Migration and Intercultural Missiology is one of three inspiring courses offered in ETF’s online Summer Colloquium, scheduled August 10–15, 2020. This international study week includes lectures, various workshops and times for meeting and reflection.
Registration is open until 15 June 2020. |
Migration has brought peoples of different faiths to the west, including Christians from southern continents with vibrant Christian populations. Their arrival raises some critical missiological questions, such as: What is mission in the context of world Christianities? How should Christians conceptualize theologies of migration? How do immigrants appropriate religion in the migration cycle? How should western Christians prepare for intercultural missiological engagements with the religious other? How are theologies of salvation, pneumatology, mission and power modified by migration? What prospects are created for a holistic understanding of mission?
By studying how global migration has transformed world Christianities, the course will encourage adoption of intercultural missiological approaches that reflect both the potential of immigrants and concerns of host communities.
Further, given the transnational character of world Christianities, the course assesses the impact of migration on confessing Christians in countries both of origin and destination.
Finally, the course will stress the need to be missionally intentional in crossing intercultural borders and facilitating theologically conscientious encounters between immigrant and indigenous churches.
This course is organized in association with the Protestant Theological University Amsterdam/Groningen.
DR. BOSCO BANGURA is Senior Researcher in Religious Studies and Missiology at ETF Leuven and at the Intercultural Theology Research Group at the Protestant Theological University in Groningen.
PROF. DR. BENNO VAN DEN TOREN is Professor of Intercultural Theology at the Protestant Theological University in Groningen.
ETF’s Summer Colloquium in August 2020 features three inspiring courses which intersect theology, church and society. The two other courses are:
This international study week includes lectures, various workshops and times for meeting and reflection. Our Summer Colloquium is compulsory for ETF Open University students open to interested people with academic qualifications and can serve as additional in-service training for pastors, teachers, and other ministry professionals. |