Vol. 5 (2017): Acta Missiologiae 2017
Nine contributors with nine different mother tongues, belonging to nine different Christian communities, living in nine different countries, serving ten different academic institutions or/and missionary organizations authored ten documents relevant for present day missiological discussions. They point to the inherent complexity of societies in which missiology seeks to be present, both as a listening discipline and one with a distinguishable voice.
All but one of the contributions originated in presentations given at the annual conference of the Central and Eastern European Association for Mission Studies, May 10-13, 2016, in Osijek, Croatia, which placed the issue of human mobility on the agenda of missiological research and Christian praxis in and related to Central and Eastern Europe. These contributions challenge academics to further reflect on the methodologies implied in their engagement with migration studies; they call missionary organizations with programs designed to help refugees and migrants to think more deeply on the theologies which lay behind their missionary activities; they encourage pastors and ministers to revisit the relationship between church and state when it comes to human mobility, migration, and war; and they invite all those who do theology to pause for a moment and listen to other voices, less familiar in their own environment.
