Pneumatological Challenges to Postcolonial Lutheran Mission in the Tswana Context

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" Pneumatological Challenges to Postcolonial Lutheran Mission in the Tswana Context "
Mari-Anna Auvinen-Pöntinen

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1077565
Doc. No	:	LA121194
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15733831-12341414‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Mari-Anna Auvinen-Pöntinen
Title & Author	:	Pneumatological Challenges to Postcolonial Lutheran Mission in the Tswana Context [Article]\ Mari-Anna Auvinen-Pöntinen
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Mission Studies
Date	:	2015
Volume/ Issue Number	:	32/3
Page No	:	353–370
Abstract	:	This article analyses pneumatological thinking as it appears in postcolonial mission in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Botswana (elcb), thereby engaging with challenges being posed by the new Pentecostal Churches and African Independent Churches in the region. These “spiritual churches” are attracting increasing numbers of worshippers with the result that the Lutheran Church is currently facing the dual challenge of both the new phenomenon and the historical colonial heritage of the missionary era. Pneumatological thinking in the elcb is examined from an epistemic point of view, and the difficulties and strengths in both the postcolonial Lutheran mission and the new religiosity are evaluated. This article analyses pneumatological thinking as it appears in postcolonial mission in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Botswana (elcb), thereby engaging with challenges being posed by the new Pentecostal Churches and African Independent Churches in the region. These “spiritual churches” are attracting increasing numbers of worshippers with the result that the Lutheran Church is currently facing the dual challenge of both the new phenomenon and the historical colonial heritage of the missionary era. Pneumatological thinking in the elcb is examined from an epistemic point of view, and the difficulties and strengths in both the postcolonial Lutheran mission and the new religiosity are evaluated.
Descriptor	:	African Lutheranism
Descriptor	:	African theology
Descriptor	:	contextual epistemology
Descriptor	:	pneumatology
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15733831-12341414‬