Three Models for the 21st Century
Certainty: Mission before the Second Vatican Council
Mission as Expansion of the Church
Mission as
Expansion
of the Church
Changes in history
and in the church
Ferment: Second Vatican Council
Mission as Participation in the Mission of the Triune God (Missio Dei)
New way of looking at the world
New way of looking at other religions
Crisis: Decade after the Council
Medellin Conference of Latin American Bishops (1968)
Rebirth: Evangelii Nuntiandi and Beyond
Mission as Liberating Service of the Reign of God
Jesus’ mission shared by church
Further Developments:
Response to two previous models
Mission as Proclamation of Jesus Christ as Universal Savior
Horizons of Mission (RM 31-33)