Intergenerational Missiology: An African Pentecostal-Charismatic Perspective

What is it about?

The book argues that the inclination to idealize the past and preserve implicit mission models for succeeding generations has always been a major source of rift among generations in Christian mission. Although this challenge is not new, studies in the field of missiology have concentrated on foreign missions to the neglect of mission in multigenerational contexts. To fill this gap, the book proposes an ‘Intergenerational Mission Approach’ (IGMA), which advocates for the need to pay attention to the deep-seated socio-cultural and theological needs of the older generations whilst responding to the changing needs of emerging generations within the church.

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Why is it important?

After a century of Pentecostal-Charismatic mission in Africa, one of the major challenges faced by many of its denominations is how to remain contextually relevant and survive beyond the founding generation without losing their authenticity and identity. Using archival and ethnographic tools of qualitative research and adopting a theoretical framework, which combines studies from the fields of contextualization and intergenerationality, this book examines the implications of the mission models of the Revd James McKeown for contemporary mission in the Church of Pentecost in Ghana. James McKeown was a British missionary, who is recognised as the founder of the Church of Pentecost, the largest protestant church in Ghana.

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