Mission and Money

Mari-Anna Auvinen-Pöntinen, Ph.D. (2011), University of Eastern Finland, is General Secretary of the Finnish Ecumenical Council. She has published articles and editions concerning mission, power-relations, culture and gender. Her monograph is entitled African Theology as Liberating Wisdom (Brill, 2013). Jonas Adelin Jørgensen, Ph.D. (2006), University of Copenhagen, is missiologist and has been researching intercultural theology and the global spread of Christianity in the 20th Century. He serves as external lecturer at the University of Copenhagen and as General Secretary of the Danish Mission Council. He has published Jesus Imandars and Christ Bhaktas (Peter Lang Verlag, 2008).

• ContentsIntroduction - Jonas Adelin Jørgensen and Mari-Anna Auvinen-PöntinenIntroducing AuthorsPart IA Challenge of Theological-Missiological Reflection on Money and Mobility in the Globalizing World - Veli-Matti KärkkäinenPart II Ethics and Global Economics - Vesa KanniainenAsian Perspectives on Global Economic Inequality - Felix WilfredChristian Mission in a World under the Grip of an Unholy Trinity: Inequality, Poverty and Unemployment - Tinyiko Sam MalulekePoverty and Power: African Challenges to Christian Mission - Gerrie ter HaarThe Mission of the Church amidst European Social and Economic Crisis: The Case of Greece - Evi Voulgaraki-PissinaInterreligious Liberation Theologies, Money and Just Relations - Ulrich DuchrowEconomic Development and Christian Mission: A Perspective from History of Mission - Jonathan J. BonkPart IIIMission and Money in Two Recent Mission Documents: The WCC’s Together towards Life and Pope Francis’s Evangelii Gaudium - Stephen BevansMission and Money—Mapping the Field - Mika VähäkangasIndex

"The book offers academic discussion on the topic of tackling contemporary global economic inequalities in the light of missional, ethical and spiritual considerations.(...) The reader gets a distinct feeling of the evident vibrancy of the conference as it broke ground in the field, exploring new ways to tackle difficulties regarding mission and money in the future. The book is a worthwhile read for academics and laypersons, as well as secularists wishing to understand where it would be fruitful to dig into the topic and contribute." Maria Gruber Wikström, in: Exchange Vol. 45 (2016)