Escobar

Southern Christianity= popular/ grassroots Christianity¹ (12-13) "marked by a culture of poverty, an oral liturgy, narrative preaching, uninhibited emotionalism, maximum participation in prayer and worship, dreams and visions, faith healing, and an intense search for community and belonging ²(13)

"Probably there has been no point at which missionary action and imperial action have been so closely linked in theory and practice as in the evangelization of the AmericaS" ³(46)

more ambiguous relationship between empire and missions in the case of Protestant mission ⁴(48)

Latin American---protestant mission came at a time of British support for the independence of colonies (⁵49)

American missionaries often don't perceive their work as linked to American expansion, the same is not to be said of those who receive them ⁶(50)

importance of voluntarism and student movements in American mission⁷ (49-51)

"The estimated number of missionaries sent from Latin America had risen from 820 in 1972 to 1,127 in 1980 to 3,026 in 1988. The most recent study available shows that by 1997 there were 284 Protestant sending agencies and a total of 3,921 missionaries in Latin America." ⁸(166)

1S Escobar,A Time for Mission: The Challenge for Global Christianity, The Global Christian Library, (Leicester: InterVarsity Press: 2003) 12–13.

2S Escobar,A Time for Mission: The Challenge for Global Christianity, The Global Christian Library, (Leicester: InterVarsity Press: 2003) 13.

3S Escobar,A Time for Mission: The Challenge for Global Christianity, The Global Christian Library, (Leicester: InterVarsity Press: 2003) 46.

4S Escobar,A Time for Mission: The Challenge for Global Christianity, The Global Christian Library, (Leicester: InterVarsity Press: 2003) 48.

5S Escobar,A Time for Mission: The Challenge for Global Christianity, The Global Christian Library, (Leicester: InterVarsity Press: 2003) 49.

6S Escobar,A Time for Mission: The Challenge for Global Christianity, The Global Christian Library, (Leicester: InterVarsity Press: 2003) 50.

7S Escobar,A Time for Mission: The Challenge for Global Christianity, The Global Christian Library, (Leicester: InterVarsity Press: 2003) 49–51.

8S Escobar, A Time for Mission: The Challenge for Global Christianity, The Global Christian Library, (Leicester: InterVarsity Press: 2003) 166.