Missionaries’ Children and the Bible: A Critical Response to Some Theological and Missiological Views

This article scrutinizes some biblical texts playing an important role in motivating missionaries to separate from their children on a young age so that they were able to receive proper school education. The children received this schooling on a place far away and often also in another country. Thor...

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Auteur principal: Bakker, Freek L. (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Brill 2023
Dans: Exchange
Année: 2023, Volume: 52, Numéro: 3, Pages: 204-219
RelBib Classification:HB Ancien Testament
HC Nouveau Testament
RB Ministère ecclésiastique
RJ Mission
Sujets non-standardisés:B missionary children
B Biblical Exegesis
B missiologists
B missionary organizations
B mission families
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Résumé:This article scrutinizes some biblical texts playing an important role in motivating missionaries to separate from their children on a young age so that they were able to receive proper school education. The children received this schooling on a place far away and often also in another country. Thorough analysis demonstrates that the meaning of these texts was almost always different from the sense many missionaries and mission organizations extracted from them. Mirabile dictu these biblical pericopes were very seldom discussed within missiological academic literature.
ISSN:1572-543X
Contient:Enthalten in: Exchange
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/1572543x-bja10026