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Globalization is speeding up our world, extending our relationships globally and bringing us closer together in positive and not-so-positive ways. The church and many Christians, however, remain largely unaware of its seductive power, resulting in a failure of vision for mission in today's world. This up-to-date resource by a veteran leader in global development work with World Vision orients readers to the history of globalization and to a Christian theological perspective on it, explores concrete realities by focusing on global poverty, and helps readers reimagine Christian mission in ways that announce the truly good news of Christ and God's kingdom. Diagrams and sidebars that incorporate the voices of global partners are included. This is the second book in a new series that reframes missiological themes and studies for students using/featuring the common theme of mission as partnership with Christians.

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Philosophie et théologie

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Publié par	Baker Publishing Group
Date de parution	20 juin 2017
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781493410262
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	3 Mo

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Series Page
Series Page

S COTT W. S UNQUIST AND A MOS Y ONG , SERIES EDITORS
The Mission in Global Community series is designed to reach college students and those interested in learning more about responsible mission involvement. Written by faculty and graduates from Fuller Theological Seminary, the series is designed as a global conversation with stories and perspectives from around the world.
Title Page
Copyright Page
© 2017 by Bryant L. Myers
Published by Baker Academic
a division of Baker Publishing Group
PO Box 6287, Grand Rapids, MI 49516-6287
www.bakeracademic.com
Ebook edition created 2017
Ebook corrections 10.06.2017
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—for example, electronic, photocopy, recording—without the prior written permission of the publisher. The only exception is brief quotations in printed reviews.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is on file at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
ISBN 978-1-4934-1026-2
Scripture quotations are from the Holy Bible, Today’s New International Version®. TNIV®. Copyright © 2001, 2005 by Biblica, Inc.™ Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide. www.zondervan.com
Endorsements
“ Engaging Globalization delves into the complex forces of globalization that shape our contemporary world. At the heart of the book is a long-standing concern for God’s shalom, continuing the important work Myers helped inform with his earlier volume, Walking with the Poor . What is more, Myers does so as a missiologist, which perhaps more than anything else makes this book so critical.”
— Gregg A. Okesson , E. Stanley Jones School of World Mission and Evangelism, Asbury Theological Seminary
“Christian leaders, teachers, and ministers have a responsibility to provide accurate historical, biblical, and theological reflections on globalization rather than regurgitating uninformed, biased media reports. In this essential text, Myers offers a vision of human flourishing that emerges from careful study and thoughtful pastoral reflection.”
— Soong-Chan Rah , North Park Theological Seminary; author of The Next Evangelicalism and coauthor of Return to Justice
“God wants our hearts and heads, our hands and feet, to partner in transforming a messy and complex world. Loving God and loving neighbor in our age of globalization requires new dimensions of discipleship, attentive discernment, and intentional spiritual formation. Myers shares a compelling vision for how ordinary laity, church leaders, and people of goodwill are called to partake in God’s work of restoration and redemption.”
— Krisanne Vaillancourt Murphy , coauthor of Advocating for Justice: An Evangelical Vision for Transforming Systems and Structures
“After more than half a century of usage, the term globalization is experiencing a crisis of meaning and significance. For people of faith, the concept poses daunting questions; perhaps especially for the global Christian family, since the Christian movement is both impacted by and deeply implicated in the processes of globalization. But Christian perspectives or responses tend to narrowly focus on one dimension or the other. In Engaging Globalization , Myers provides a comprehensive and astute appraisal. The complexities of globalization (understood as ‘a deeply embedded historical process’) are carefully navigated; entrenched myths regarding its value, promise, and outcome are interrogated; and the ambiguities, not to mention unresolved dilemmas, of its myriad processes are laid bare. This engaging exploration of what it means to be the church in a new global age is both timely and instructive.”
— Jehu J. Hanciles , Candler School of Theology, Emory University
“For Christians desiring to engage the joys and trials of globalization with inspired, faith-centered, and effective responses, Myers marks the path. Insisting on the essential connection between a deep spiritual relationship with God and commitment to justice in the world, Engaging Globalization calls Christians everywhere to the redemptive task of appreciating the good of secular theories and practices of globalization, while at the same time revising and reforming these theories and practices with our deep awareness of God, our image-bearing humanity, and the purpose God has given us.”
— Roland Hoksbergen , Calvin College
Dedication
With love and appreciation to
Lisa Brooke, Casey, and Samantha Grace James, Laurel, and Evelyn Angelica
Contents
Cover i
Series Page ii
Title Page iii
Copyright Page iv
Dedication v
Endorsements vi
List of Sidebars xiii
Series Preface xv
Acknowledgments xvii
Abbreviations xxi
Section 1: Setting the Stage 1
1. Introduction and the Path Forward 3
What Is Being Proposed?
How Will We Get There?
Questions for Discussion
2. Twin Foundations 15
Theological Affirmations
Globalization and God
The Creation Narrative
Explaining the Human Condition
What Does God Intend?
Human Flourishing
Complex Adaptive Social Systems
Questions for Discussion
Section 2: Introducing Globalization 33
3. Understanding Globalization 33
The Problem of Definitions
Metaphors for Globalization
The Outcomes and Processes of Globalization
Globalization from Below
The Dark Side of Globalization
The Dynamic Domains of Globalization
Technology
Economics
Governance
Culture
Human Beings
Summing Up
Questions for Discussion
4. The Ambiguities of Globalization 53
The Emergent Nature of Globalization
Who’s in Charge of Globalization?
What Shapes Globalization?
Is Globalization Inevitable?
Globalization’s Unresolved Issues of Concern
Asymmetries of Power
Income Inequality
Unending Economic Disruption
The Health of Our Planet
The Reduction of Human Identity and Purpose
The Challenge to the Church in Mission
What’s Next?
Questions for Discussion
Section 3: The Two Eras of Globalization 67
5. The First Era of Globalization: Going Global by Migration, Conquest, and Mission 69
The First Era
In the Beginning—Migration
Migration and Conquest
Migration and Mission
The Age of Exploration: 1400–1700
Setting the Stage for the Second Era of Globalization
The Transformation of Britain
What Changed?
Tectonic Shifts
The Economic Transformation
Increased Human Agency
Questions for Discussion
6. The Second Era of Globalization: Globally Connected and Closer Together 87
The Second Era
Globalization I: 1800–1914
Technological and Economic Change
The Contribution of the Church
Globalization of Mission
The Great Disruption: 1914–89
Between the Wars
Post–World War II
The Cold War
Globalization II: 1989 to Today
Rapid and Uneven Change
The Relegation of the Church to the Spiritual Realm
Summing Up
Questions for Discussion
Section 4: The Impact of Globalization 105
7. The Impact of Two Hundred Years of Globalization 107
Economic Growth
Toward a Global Economy
Economic Centers Are Moving
Goods and Services Are Moving
Technological Change
The Emergence of Modern Sciences
Technology Is Connecting Us
New Forms of Energy
A New Technological Era Is Emerging
People Are Moving
Modern Migration
New Features of Migration Today
Better Human Lives
Better Health
Education and Literacy
The Social Sciences Emerge
Culture and People Change
Changes in Human Self-Understanding
Globalization of Compassion
Church and Compassion
Questions for Discussion
8. Assessing the Second Era of Globalization 129
What Happened to the Poor?
Differing Perspectives on Globalization
Toward the Promised Land
A False Dawn?
Things Fall Apart
The Last Two Hundred Years in a Nutshell
As We Move On
Questions for Discussion
Section 5: Globalization and the Poor 145
9. Globalization’s Response to Poverty 147
The State of the Poor Today
There Is a Lot Left to Do
Where Are the Poor?
Their Unhelpful Contexts
The Global Response to the Poor
Origins of the Idea of Development
Evolution of the Development Theories
Development as Freedom—Amartya Sen
What Do the Poor Have to Say?
The Global Institutions Responding to the Poor
Summing Up
Questions for Discussion
10. Contemporary Thinking on Development 163
Global Proposals for Poverty Eradication
Delivering Development—Jeffrey Sachs
Discovering Development—William Easterly
The Bottom Billion Are Different—Paul Collier
Culture and Development—Lawrence Harrison
Recent Insights
The Mystery of Capital—Hernando de Soto
The Power of Credit—Muhammad Yunus
Discovering What Works—Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo
Information and Communications Technology for Development (ICT4D)
Faith and Development
Where Are the Christians?
They Are Suspicious but Curious
We Are Also Suspicious and Need to Be More Curious
Is There Value in Dialogue?
An Enriching Conversation
Summing Up
Questions for Discussion
Section 6: Globalization and the Church 185
11. Globalization and World Christianity 187
Two Preliminaries
The Mission of the Church
Making Sense of Our Christian History
Christianity: An Enduring Globalism
The Globalization of World Christianity
The Historical Trajectory
The Nature of Christian Mission
God Did Not Die
The Changing Shape of the Christian Church
What Changed?
What Do These Changes Mean?
The Frontiers of Mission Today
Questions for Discussion
12. The Theological Limitations of Globalization 207
A Flawed Anthropology
The Problem of Power
The Relegation of Morality and Ethics
The Missing Moral Ecology of Globalization
Questions for Discussion
13. The Christian Engagement with Globalization 219
A Protestant Contribution—Max Stackhouse
Global Public Theology
Global Civil Society
A Roman Catholic Contribution—Daniel Groody
Catholic Social Teaching
Key Themes of Catholic Social Teaching
Globalization, Justice, and Spirituality
Changing Culture—James Davison Hunter
The Decisive Importance of Prayer
Summing Up
Questions for D