TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kirk Sims
PY  - 2018
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783631745182
TI  - Dynamics of international mission in the Methodist Church Ghana
DO  - 10.3726/b13247
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1110301
N2  - This book assesses the conceptualisation of international mission in the Methodist Church Ghana. It demonstrates that Ghanaian Methodists possess a robust ecclesiology with roots in the Akan concept of «abusua» and an evangelical theology rooted in John Wesley. The author gives interpretations to the ways mission takes place and proposes twelve models of mission whereby members of diasporic communities are agents of mission. As mission is seen a responsibility of the whole church, mission is a common theme related to the migration of Ghanaian Methodists to other contexts, often understood in terms of in the global North. The church’s presence in North America and Europe presents challenges and opportunities that must be negotiated in a broader Methodist mainline milieu.
KW  - World Christianity, Migration mission, Post-colonial, Majority World, Non-western, Christendom
LA  - English
ER  -