The missionary movement in Christian history

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Midterm Prompt Your midterm paper will be a minimum of 3-4 pages long. It can be longer! It should use 11 or 12 point font, be double-spaced or one and a half spaced, and have standard margins. You must turn in your paper on SafeAssign through iLearn. You do not need to print a physical copy of your paper. Grades for late papers may go down up to half a letter grade per day after the due date. As you are writing, please remember that your final paper will build on your work in the midterm, so you should pick a topic that you would like to build on. For your final, you will add at least 5-6 pages so that you end up with an 8-10 page paper. This paper will form the core of your thesis while the rest of our class will fill in more details and specific case examples for the final paper. 1. Especially when they cross the boundaries of cultures, peoples, and languages, missionaries have always been implicated in complex relationships with power, conversion, and coercion. Make an argument about the ways in which cross-cultural and other kinds of missionaries have interacted with power and authority. You may define power broadly, including, for instance, coercive force, institutions, social hierarchies, gender, economics, social influence, or prestige. Use one or two specific examples to illustrate your model of Christian mission and power. Some examples of an argument might include: “Missionaries are most effective when they resist the power of their own, home communities in the mission field,” or “Missionaries are most effective when they can skillfully use the overwhelming power of their home communities in the mission field.” 2. Andrew Walls has suggested that the Christian message is always carefully balanced between two principles. One the one hand, there is a “pilgrim principle” which pushes Christians to consider the ways in which they are separate from a particular culture in order to critique it from universal or ideal standpoint. Thus, the Christian is a heavenly pilgrim that does not belong to the earth. On the other hand, the “indigenizing principle” pushes Christians to consider the ways in which they are embedded in particular cultures, to make them their home, and show how existing principles reflect the Christian message. Thus, the Christian is always “indigenous”—belonging fully to one’s own time and place. Make an argument about the ways the pilgrim and indigenizing principles have interacted. Use one or two specific examples to illustrate your model of Christianity and culture. Some examples of an argument might include: “When Christian missions apply the pilgrim principle, they open themselves to criticism by illuminating gender disparities in both their own home culture and others,” or “Christian missions that successfully indigenize inevitably end up sanctifying the ‘home’ culture in a way that becomes oppressive to others.” If you don’t like either of these prompts, feel free to write your own. Just be sure that you are making an argument that requires the careful use of evidence from our readings and doesn’t just make an obvious point. Due date: February 13
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As Andrew Walls suggests, Christian messages are always carefully balanced between
the pilgrim and indigenizing principles. Through his essay "The Gospel as Liberator and Prisoner
of Culture," Andrew states that the missionaries have no abiding city but should be faithfully
conformed to Christ so that they are separated from society. He goes ahead to elaborate that East
or West, the society do exist and therefore, the word of Christ would be absorbed painlessly into
the systems of Christians. In Romans 12: 2, Paul warns Christians not to conform to the world’s
pattern. More so, the scriptures reaffirm Andrew Wall’s teachings by warning the missionaries
from squeezing into the molds and the culture of the world. This paper aims at explaining
Andrew Wall’s suggestions about the two principles that balance the Christian message.
The above illustrations show that when Christian missionaries apply the pilgrim
principle, they open themselves to criticism by illuminating gender disparities in both their own
home culture and others. Christian missionaries should proclaim Jesus Christ and obey the word
of God. Doing so means that they should isolate themselves from the conformity of their home
cultures; there should be a difference between a Christian and non-Christian. Corinthians 8
together with Paul's warnings indicates that the strong are fond of leading the weak into sin
through the exercise of freedom. The pilgrim principle associates Christian missionaries with
people and things outside their cultures hence acting as a universalizing factor for Christians.
Such an adoption universalizes Christians from multiple cultures as well as ages by having a
common inheritance, suitable for every...


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