The Oxford of the Southern World and Education in the Empire

Symonds, Richard

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“…And when I’ve asked veteran Protestant missionaries from around the world and across nationalities, they report the same. Apart from some exceptions in the Anglo-Catholic wing of Anglicanism (Symonds, 1986: 203–27), Protestant missionaries neither cultivated an ideology of vowed singleness for life nor institutionalized this in public rituals. Thus, older missionaries who did marry did not express ambivalence because of prior vows.…”

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Towards a missiology of marriage and sexuality: A review of Timothy Tennent’s theology of the body

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2023

Missiology

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Missiologists have written little in response to many of our modern world’s newly emergent and influential sexual lifeways, ideologies, surrogacy practices, and family formations. The 2020 book written by missiologist Timothy Tennent For the Body: Recovering a Theology of Gender, Sexuality, and the Human Body represents an exception. Thus, it merits sustained attention from other missiologists wishing to consider such realities. This article reviews Tennent’s exposition of a “theology of the body,” focusing on his arguments regarding marriage and celibacy as missional icons of the gospel, and explores the relevance of the book’s topic for missiology. It commends Tennent for addressing an important and timely topic that ought to be addressed by missiologists. It suggests that Tennent might have more fully achieved his laudable goal of framing a suitable argument for the public square had he interacted more with anthropology, not just theology, and had he explicitly interacted with the writings of professional missiologists on fundamental missiological principles. The article proposes that missiology, despite its relative silence till now, has discipline-specific strengths for engaging contemporary challenges related to sex and marriage and Christian witness. It encourages missiologists to direct our future missiological conversations, research, writing, and curricular development accordingly.

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“… 8. The only exceptions to this pattern that I am aware of are in the Anglo-Catholic wing of Anglicanism (see Symonds, 1986: 203–27). …”

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