Mission Partnership in Creative Tension

Samuel Cueva

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Samuel Cueva has refined his concept of ‘partnership in mission’ by advocating the use of reciprocal contextual collaboration in this important contribution to scholarly reflection on contemporary missiology. Referencing historical, theological and functional aspects of how mission has been carried out, as well as analyzing it’s impact on the evangelical movement, the author identifies that mission always develops with positive and negative tensions. Emphasizing an understanding of current missions which include traditional, networking and emergent models, and how they can be combined, interconnected and interchanged, the author proposes a fresh model that ensures the suitability for every mission context.

Informations

• Publié par: Langham Creative Projects
• Date de parution: 14 avril 2015
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781783689309
• Langue: English

Extrait

This book is a helpful tool for missiological studies as it explores the concept of partnership in Christian missionary practice and missiological reflection. Its valuable bibliography not only gives an idea about the amount of research carried on by its author, but it is also most helpful for those interested in continuing an exploration of an important chapter of mission studies. Samuel Cueva’s proposal of new partnerships in creative tension is an expression of the missionary dynamism that has developed in the Majority World.
Samuel Escobar
Founding member of the Latin American Theological Fellowship,
Professor of Mission at the Facultad Protestante de Teología UEBE, Madrid, Spain.
Samuel Cueva has set out in detail important aspects of a renewed understanding of what partnership in mission between Western mission agencies and the churches of the global South should entail. He writes with conviction, enthusiasm and a good deal of personal experience of the need for new patterns of mission engagement. He advocates a reciprocal relationship between Christians on different continents in which all forms of dependency have been eliminated, and sending and receiving churches in both directions acknowledge their equal, mutual responsibility to global mission and their need to learn from one another. Although written with Latin America in mind, the arguments and conclusions are applicable across all global links. I thoroughly commend this new addition to creative thinking about the theory and practice of mission partnerships in a world of increasing international collaboration in the task of making known the good news about Jesus Christ.
Andrew Kirk, PhD
Mission theologian, Educator and Author
This masterful work by Samuel Cueva is a scholarly, in-depth treatment on the topic of global mission partnerships that continues to be of great importance and relevance the more the world globalizes and the church evangelizes. Of particular value is chapter 4 where Cueva details six current areas that need full consideration when forging international partnerships. I suggest that this section alone is a must-read for global mission leaders no matter what part of the world they represent.
Marvin J. Newell, Dr Miss
Senior Vice President, MISSIO NEXUS
Dr Samuel Cueva takes a robust approach to questions relating to the so-called ‘older’ and ‘younger’ churches in their relationship to each other in mission, and genuine global South-North partnerships. There is a great need to explore strategies that avoid the too-common paternalism, dependency and neo-colonialism that has plagued the church and its mission to the world in the last century and seriously distorted relationships. Writing from his personal experience as a Peruvian evangelical missionary in Britain for many years, Cueva makes practical suggestions on how to overcome the historical inequalities, and his rich study combines theory and praxis in a fresh and insightful way.
Allan H. Anderson, DTh
Professor of Mission and Pentecostal Studies, University of Birmingham
Living in a world of endless domination, Sam Cueva has opened a needed conversation for a renewed sense of partnership in mission today. His journey as a missionary and church planter has enriched his thinking and reflection on the complex issue of working together in mission. More than robust insights of missiological nature, Sam invites the reader to look deeply at God’s relational interaction within the Trinity where mutuality and interdependence illuminates our conflicted human endeavors in mission. It is on the basis of this argument that he sketches and provides historical, theological and practical suggestions towards a more viable partnership in missio Dei for the twenty-first century. As a writer from the Majority World, Sam brings a fresh look at the issue of partnership with new lenses. This is a resource worth reading and sharing with mission leaders and organizations. Its reading is a must!
Wilmer Villacorta, PhD
Faculty member at Fuller Theological Seminary, School of Intercultural Studies, Pasadena, California
Samuel Cueva is a thinker, an astute student of culture, and observer of missiological models. It’s easy to see the influence of other great thinkers to whom he has been exposed, from the likes of John Stott to Samuel Escobar to his own father, John, one of the early missiological pioneers in his native Peru. Now, as a Latin American living in Western Europe, Samuel Cueva is in a unique position to offer valuable insights in his new book Mission Partnership in Creative Tension. I love the phrase “creative tension”! We need this.
Jeff Adams, PhD
Senior Pastor of Graceway Church, Kansas City, USA
It is a privilege and a blessing to be in a mission partnership with Samuel Cueva – and a little bit scary too! Because, as this book shows, here is a clear and informed mind married to a passion for mission, in a man who wants us to create new and more biblical patterns to reach and change our world. I find the church-to-church paradigm Samuel explores to be powerful and persuasive, and my prayer is that other churches will find the blessing in partnership we have come to know.
Chris Green
Vicar, St James, Muswell Hill, London

Mission Partnership in Creative Tension
An Analysis of the Relationships in Mission within the Evangelical Movement with Special Reference to Peru and Britain between 1987 and 2006
Samuel Cueva

© 2015 by Samuel Cueva
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Cueva, Samuel, author.
Partnership in mission in creative tension : an analysis of
the relationships in mission within the evangelical
movement with special reference to Peru and Britain
1987-2006.
1. Missions--Theory. 2. Missions--Theory--History--20th
century. 3. Missions--Theory--History--21st century.
4. Evangelicalism--History--20th century.
5. Evangelicalism--History--21st century. 6. Missions--
Peru. 7. Missions--Great Britain.
I. Title
266’.001-dc23
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Contents

Cover


Acknowledgements


Abbreviations


Abstract


Introduction


Justification for the research topic


The research problem


Research question


Hypothesis


Secondary questions


Field of study


Scope


Limitations


Methodology


Sources


Structure of the study


PART I


Development and Characteristics of Partnership in Mission


Chapter 1 Partnership in Historical Perspective


The meaning of perspective in mission partnership


Historical, theological and missiological origins and roots of the evangelical movement in Latin America


An ecumenical understanding of partnership: Edinburgh 1910 to Whitby 1947


An evangelical understanding of mission partnership: from Lausanne 1974 to Amsterdam 2000


A Latin American understanding of partnership – CLADE I 1970–IV 2000


Towards a definition of partnership in mission


A new definition: reciprocal contextual collaboration in Christian mission


Chapter 2 Partnership in Mission and its Theology


Introduction


Partnership and the missio Dei


Partnership and God’s kingdom


Partnership and God’s church


A Trinitarian theology of partnership


A christological theology of partnership


A missiological understanding of partnership in Paul’s theology


Partnership as a tool of establishing the basileia


Conclusion


Chapter 3 Current Models of Partnership in Mission: an Analysis of their Main Characteristics, Policies and Impact on the Evangelical Mov