New Trends in Mission: The Emerging Future

Drawn from the 2021 Mission Symposium of SEDOS (Service of Documentation and Studies on Global Mission) in Rome, New Trends in Mission: The Emerging Future offers a comprehensive overview of new trends in Catholic mission. Scholars from across the globe explore key issues including the role of missionary religious institutes; the missionary vision of Pope Francis; mission with migrants and refugees; proclamation; secularization; interfaith dialogue; interculturality; laity in mission; and many more.

Author: Peter Baekelsman
Publisher: Orbis Books
Published: 07/13/2022
Pages: 408
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.23lbs
Size: 9.25h x 6.00w x 0.84d
ISBN13: 9781626984516
ISBN10: 1626984514
BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Christian Ministry | Missions
- Religion | Christianity | Catholic

About the Author
Peter Baekelmans, CICM, is a Belgian Catholic theologian and member of the Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. He was a missionary in Japan for twenty years, and he holds an MA in comparative religions, an MA in Buddhist studies, and a PhD in theology of religions. He is director of SEDOS in Rome, Italy, and guest professor at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Sciences of Catholic University of Louvain.

Marie-Hélène Robert, OLA, is a missiologist, full professor of dogmatic theology at the Faculty of Theology of Lyon Catholic University, and a member of the Sciences and Humanities Confluence Research Center. She has published numerous books and articles, and presents papers at various national and international conferences. She is a sister of the Missionary Institute of Our Lady of the Apostles.