Date First Published:
2019
Resource Type:
Website
Topics / Themes:
Christian/church history, Discipleship
Overview:
This short account highlights the necessity of retrieving Christian history in majority Muslim contexts to construe and communicate Christian identity in a winsome and informed manner.
Content:
Familiarity with history also allows for the recognition of self-worth and value for one’s local Christian community. It was striking to see how BMBs in North Africa were energized by hearing that their local bishop martyr, Cyprian, had made such a lasting and profound impact on Christian theology and ecclesiology. Culture gives us what we so desperately need in human life: a set of meanings. Once we know the meaning and significance of things, we are able to develop that comfortable sense of belonging, or the feeling of being at home in one small section of the world, a sense of identity and security.”
Academic Discipline
Missiology