THE 1000C CLASS # 8 |
encountering christianity assignment sheet 8
I. ask
Age 7: Post-Modern Age (AD 1960 - 1960): A Faith for All the World | Mobilizing for the Future
How did Christianity spread during the Modern Age and what is the significance of this growth for understanding Christianity today? What is the Post-Modern Age? What is the significance of the Second Vatican Council and the Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization for Christianity today?
II. read
III. answer
Noll, Turning Points, Chapter 12, A Faith for All the World - Edinburgh Missionary Conference (AD 1910)
1) In what respects was the Edinburgh Conference the “end of an epoch”? Why does the author consider it a turning point?
2) What were some of the theological topics addressed during the conference? How were these issues related to the topic of missions?
3) what, in the author’s assessment, is a critical step that needs to occur in successful missions? Why was this less likely to result in missions activities prior to the Edinburgh conference than after?
4) Given the reasons for the slowdown in missions activity in the eighteenth century, what seem to be the critical ingredients that need to exist within the church for missions to flourish?
5) Who were the key players in the missions efforts of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? What common characteristics did these individuals share?
6) What seemed to be the critical ingredients necessary to the success of local indigenization?
Noll, Turning Points, Chapter 13, Mobilizing for the Future - Second Vatican Council (AD 1962-1965) and Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization (AD 1974)
7) Why is it easier to define turning points for Catholicism in the twentieth century than for evangelical and independent Protestantism?
8) How did the Second Vatican Council change the direction of Catholicism for the laity?
9) How did the Second Vatican Council redefine the relationship between Scripture and tradition, particularly the role of the pope?
10) How did Vatican II make more evident the various theological positions within the Catholic Church?
11) How did Billy Graham’s worldwide preaching ministry affect the scope and goals of the Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization? What contributions did John Stott make?
12) What were the contributions of the non-Western delegates to the congress?
13) What are the comparisons and contrasts between modern Roman Catholicism as represented by Vatican II with modern evangelical and independent Protestantism as represented by Lausanne?