Worldview: The Missing Dimension of Evangelism in Post-Communist Society

For a while Christians considered the Soviet Union to be a great potential mission field; nevertheless when the door for missions opened wide, it happened unexpectedly. Despite thousands of missionaries and millions of dollars invested immediately in spreading the gospel in the post-communist world,...

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Auteur principal: Golovin, Sergei (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Princeton Theological Sem. 2008
Dans: Religion in Eastern Europe
Année: 2008, Volume: 28, Numéro: 3, Pages: 27-64
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Résumé:For a while Christians considered the Soviet Union to be a great potential mission field; nevertheless when the door for missions opened wide, it happened unexpectedly. Despite thousands of missionaries and millions of dollars invested immediately in spreading the gospel in the post-communist world, after a short-term tide, church growth declined back to pre-perestroika level. The research made during that period demonstrated that the so-called awakening had nothing to do with the biblical concept of repentance (i.e. a radical change of a person’s worldview). An explanatory model of the worldview transformation dynamics in post-communist society is developed as an attempt to understand what actually happened with the people worldview distribution during the collapse of Soviet Union.
ISSN:1069-4781
Contient:Enthalten in: Religion in Eastern Europe