God or Mammon: Economies in Conflict

David Bosch: South African Context, Universal Missiology—Ecclesiology in the Emerging Missionary Paradigm

“…The contribution of Ulrich Duchrow to the IAMS conference at Buenos Aires in 1996 brought home the missiological nature of the economic challenges for the future. 41 The stewardship of the planet, which the WCC has taught us to refer to as the "integrity of creation," means that nations the size of the United States and China, with their potential worldwide impact on climate change and the environment, will need the constant witness of the church on behalf of the well-being of the human race, a witness likely to be fully effective only if it is in some sense united. Despite the twenty-first century's dislike of the large, the institutional, and the overarching in narrative, the church is committed to all three and cannot in responsibility deny them.…”