Mission and Money: Christian Mission in the Context of Global Inequalities - Paperback

by Mari-Anna Auvinen-Pöntinen (Volume Editor), Jonas Adelin Jørgensen (Volume Editor)

Mission and Money; Christian Mission in the Context of Global Inequalities offers academic discussion about the mission of the Church in the context of contemporary economic inequalities globally, challenging the reader to reconsider mission in the light of existing poverty, and investigating how economic structures could be challenged in the light of ethical and spiritual considerations. The book includes contributions on the subjects of poverty and inequality from the theologians, economists and anthropologists who gave keynote presentations at the European Missiological Conference (IAMS Europe) that took place in April 2014 in Helsinki, Finland. This conference was a major step forward in terms of discussion between missiologists and economists on global economic structures and their influence on human dignity.

Contributors are: Mari-Anna Auvinen-Pöntinen, Stephen B. Bevans, Jonathan J. Bonk, Ulrich Duchrow, Jonas Adelin J rgensen, Vesa Kanniainen, Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen, Tinyiko Sam Maluleke, Gerrie Ter Haar, Evi Voulgaraki-Pissina, Mika Vähäkangas, Felix Wilfred.

Author Biography

Mari-Anna Auvinen-Pöntinen, Ph.D. (2011), University of Eastern Finland, is General Secretary of the Finnish Ecumenical Council. She has published articles and editions concerning mission, power-relations, culture and gender. Her monograph is entitled African Theology as Liberating Wisdom (Brill, 2013).

Jonas Adelin Jørgensen, Ph.D. (2006), University of Copenhagen, is missiologist and has been researching intercultural theology and the global spread of Christianity in the 20th Century. He serves as external lecturer at the University of Copenhagen and as General Secretary of the Danish Mission Council. He has published Jesus Imandars and Christ Bhaktas (Peter Lang Verlag, 2008).