In the ninth and last essay, the writer asks, “What can we learn from the missionary journey of the Church after 500 years?” The writer is not a historian in the strict disciplinal sense of the word. Know more:
historian of faith. In this essay, titled “Mission Makes the Church: New Horizons of Missio Ad Gentes for the Philippines Today and Beyond,” Fr. Andrew Gimenez Recepcion is once more a pilgrim.
We do have our own concepts of missions and missionaries. We think of religious men and women traveling to distant and remote places. Somehow, we cannot think of our neighborly parish priest as a missionary. Recepcion corrects these impressions and more. He notes how the world has rapidly changed and how “Missiologists today suggest that we need a new mindset, a new language and a new praxis when we talk about missio ad gentes.
When one reads the essays in the book of Recepcion, one is made acutely aware of a world where religion participates in a tapestry rather than a territorial enclave. The variation in the people’s response and the changes in one’s religion all underscore a point-of-view ready to accommodate alterations and shifting. The essays are also differing in terms of persuasion and level of knowledge. There is the first essay, which is aboutand how the word changes in terms of usage and historical context.
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