TY - CHAP
T1 - The Ministry of Peace
T2 - Contours of a Post-Christendom Soteriology
AU - Paas, S.
PY - 2025
Y1 - 2025
N2 - Recent field studies show how missionary practitioners in the West run into difficulties as regards their inherited soteriology. This soteriology is rooted in late Christendom, and it is individualistic, revivalist, and predicated on a ‘saved—lost’ distinction that permeates everything—from the individual self to the world at large. This article analyses the problems against the background of historical and intercultural perspectives, showing that Christian soteriology does not need to be ‘fixated’ on the protestant, evangelical conversion experience. Salvation is rather found and experienced in the context of peace-making and reconciliation, a context that is well-founded in the Bible and holds great promises for a relevant and coherent soteriology for our times.
AB - Recent field studies show how missionary practitioners in the West run into difficulties as regards their inherited soteriology. This soteriology is rooted in late Christendom, and it is individualistic, revivalist, and predicated on a ‘saved—lost’ distinction that permeates everything—from the individual self to the world at large. This article analyses the problems against the background of historical and intercultural perspectives, showing that Christian soteriology does not need to be ‘fixated’ on the protestant, evangelical conversion experience. Salvation is rather found and experienced in the context of peace-making and reconciliation, a context that is well-founded in the Bible and holds great promises for a relevant and coherent soteriology for our times.
U2 - 10.1163/9789004727526_020
DO - 10.1163/9789004727526_020
M3 - Chapter
SN - 978-90-04-72495-2
T3 - Theology and Mission in World Christianity
SP - 321
EP - 338
BT - Visions of the Good Life
A2 - Schaeffer, Hans
A2 - Abrahamse, Jan Martijn
A2 - Zwijze-Koning, Karen
A2 - Paas, Stefan
PB - Brill Academic Publishers
CY - Leiden
ER -