{"id":7841,"date":"2016-09-06T22:26:46","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T02:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/?p=7841"},"modified":"2016-09-06T22:26:46","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T02:26:46","slug":"mission-as-boundary-crossing-global-ecclesiology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/2016\/09\/06\/mission-as-boundary-crossing-global-ecclesiology\/","title":{"rendered":"Mission as boundary-crossing global ecclesiology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/cgcm\/files\/2015\/09\/Anicka_Fast_profile-2-thm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/cgcm\/files\/2015\/09\/Anicka_Fast_profile-2-thm-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Anicka_Fast_profile 2 thm\" class=\" size-thumbnail wp-image-7223 alignleft\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/files\/2015\/09\/Anicka_Fast_profile-2-thm-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/files\/2015\/09\/Anicka_Fast_profile-2-thm-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Anika Fast, CGCM student affiliate, recently published an article &#8220;The Earth is the Lord\u2019s: Anabaptist mission as boundary-crossing global ecclesiology&#8221; in <em>Mennonite Quarterly Review<\/em> (July 2016). This essay reviews three strands of thinking \u2013 representatives of an older generation of North American Mennonite mission scholars and historians, younger voices speaking largely from within a Mennonite World Conference context, and a variety of thinkers from the Global South \u2013 to argue that all are converging to reaffirm a believers church perspective on mission in which ecclesiology and missiology are essentially connected. At a time when some North American Mennonites are questioning the legacy of mission, the author argues that it is time to move past a polarized debate, in which one is either \u201cfor\u201d or \u201cagainst\u201d mission, to understand Mennonites\u2019 historical involvement in mission as part of a larger story of working toward deepening relationships in the world church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anika Fast, CGCM student affiliate, recently published an article &#8220;The Earth is the Lord\u2019s: Anabaptist mission as boundary-crossing global ecclesiology&#8221; in Mennonite Quarterly Review (July 2016). This essay reviews three strands of thinking \u2013 representatives of an older generation of North American Mennonite mission scholars and historians, younger voices speaking largely from within a Mennonite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10970,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2015,1999,2018],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7841"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10970"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7842,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7841\/revisions\/7842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}