Recent developments and challenges in understanding the Dutch Reformed family of churches’ missional identity and calling

Authors

  • G. Van der Watt University of the Free State

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5952/51-3-90

Keywords:

Dutch Reformed Church Family, missio Dei, missional congregations, witness and service

Abstract

The article focuses on recent developments in and discourses on the missionary or missional calling and identity of the Dutch Reformed Church Family. The historical legacy of an ideological missionary approach and involvement, the reaction of younger sister churches, important workshops and declarations, the struggle for unification as well as the post-Apartheid context, contributed significantly to this process of understanding its calling to witness and service. It is a continuing discourse which is currently also impacted by a new understanding of “being†missional congregations.

Author Biography

G. Van der Watt, University of the Free State

Navorsingsgenoot: Departement Missiologie, Fakulteit Teologie, Universiteit van die Vrystaat

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Published

2012-02-02

Issue

Vol. 51 No. 3&4 (2010)

Section

Articles | Artikels

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