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Conceptualisation of missio hominum as an expression of imago Dei: From missio Dei to missio hominum

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2022
Academic data show little evidence that the concept of the missio hominum was ever explored beyond its context as developed by Nico Smith. There is little to no research that has conceptualised this phenomenon in light of imago Dei and the role it should
Jonas Thinane
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Missio hominum in missio Dei: Biblical embodiment of missio hominum

Verbum et Ecclesia, 2023
Recent efforts to introduce and develop the concept of missio hominum, first by Prof. Nico Smith, followed by Dr Jonas Thinane, are equally plausible and commendable. However, these efforts leave untouched the question of the biblical roots of the missio
Jonas S. Thinane
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Missio politica in missio Dei: Integrating politics into God’s eternal mission

Verbum et Ecclesia, 2022
The understanding of the missio Dei from the point of view of the International Missionary Conference in Willingen has rightly broadened the missiological horizon and promoted new approaches to God’s mission in the world.
Jonas S. Thinane
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Missio hominum as commissioned by missio Dei

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2022
The Christian image of God rightly goes back to the Bible as the only source of revelation. According to the creation account in the book of Genesis, God is primarily seen as the creator of heaven, Earth and humankind.
Jonas S. Thinane
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Missio Dei’s complexity prefaced in synergism

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2023
Augustine’s thoughts on human salvation not only influenced early Protestant theology but also dominated the conceptualisation of the missio Dei from the perspective of the 1952 Willingen Conference.
Jonas S. Thinane
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Missio hominum for social justice in South Africa: From missio Dei to missio hominum

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2021
Decades after the fall of apartheid, South Africa continues to face problems such as racism, heterosexism, sexism, ableism, xenophobia, and gender-based violence leading to feminicide, which undermines all efforts being made to achieve social justice ...
Jonas S. Thinane
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Missio Dei and missio hominum: Top-Down-up Christology in Mission [PDF]

E-Journal of Religious and Theological Studies
In Christian theology, Christology remains a distinct branch of knowledge offering articulation of the hypostatic union or relationship between the divine and human natures of Jesus Christ.
Jonas Sello Thinane
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Providentia Missio Dei amid Adverse Global Conflicts [PDF]

E-Journal of Religious and Theological Studies
Since its reinterpretation in the second half of the 20th century, the Missio Dei has become a primary missiological framework that embraces human redemption as the direct work or by-product of God’s intervention.
Jonas Sello Thinane
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Missio Dei

St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology
Missio Dei represents a missiological attempt to articulate a theocentric concept of mission with reference to the missionary nature and act of the triune God.
Chung-Hyun Baik, Sinwoong Kim
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Missio Dei refuting the pactum salutis

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2023
The doctrine of pactum salutis has in the past sparked serious theological debate and has often been rejected because of its contradictions with Reformed orthodoxy.
Jonas S. Thinane
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