David Bosch's Paradigm Shifts In Missiology
David Bosch in chapter 5, “Paradigm Shifts in Missiology” explains the importance of understanding the meaning of mission for our own time and encourages us to use our freedom of thinking to understand the ministry of Jesus and the early church in an imaginative and creative way to our own time and context. The reason to do this is because the Christian faith is a historical faith and is incarnational, the reality of God entering into human affairs (p.181).
Bosch proposes four epochs in the history of mission, each epoch has its own characteristic “paradigm”: the missionary paradigm of Eastern Church (the Greek patristic period); the medieval Roman Catholic missionary paradigm; the protestant (Reformation) paradigm; and the modern Enlightenment
Bosch proposes four epochs in the history of mission, each epoch has its own characteristic “paradigm”: the missionary paradigm of Eastern Church (the Greek patristic period); the medieval Roman Catholic missionary paradigm; the protestant (Reformation) paradigm; and the modern Enlightenment