Missions and Money: Affluence as a Western Missionary Problem
(Part of the American Society of Missiology Series)
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Book Overview
When it was first published in 1991, Missions and Money became a much-discussed book in Christian missionary circles. In this revised edition, Bonk offers new reflections in the light of a changed situation, one marked by increases in the number of short-term missioners and increases in the numbers of Asians, Africans, and Latin Americans who are leaving their homelands to serve as missionaries to other peoples. The conversation on the ambiguity of wealth and Christian missionary outreach is deepened with essays by Christopher J. H. Wright on the righteous rich in the Hebrew Bible and by Justo Gonzalez on faith and wealth in the Christian Bible and the early church.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0883447185
ISBN13:9780883447185
Release Date:January 1991
Publisher:Orbis Books
Length:170 Pages
Weight:0.64 lbs.
Dimensions:0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"
Customer Reviews
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Not for the easily offended
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 20 years ago
If you think that English-speaking missionaries are basically doing things alright, and if you're willing to entertain the possibility that they're not, read this one. If you're not willing to entertain that possibility, save yourself the trouble and find another book. Bonk launches attacks on the practices of Western Protestant missionaries, noting that they've always got one foot on the plane back to the States. In contrast, he holds up historical Catholic missions in which a celibate missionary commits his whole life to a location and indigenous tribal missionaries, who become members of the tribe to whom they're ministering, raising their children as part of their new tribe and never planning on leaving. He critiques Western schools exclusively for missionary children, scholarships to denominational colleges for the same, and the vast gap in wealth between those who, according to our story, need to hear about the one who said "Blessed are the poor" and those who, according to the same story, haven't heard it yet. Taking Bonk's book seriously would mean a radical restructuring of missions as Americans do them now. I'm not holding my breath.
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