Richard Shaull and the Struggle for the Identity of the WSCF
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12550965 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Angel Santiago-Vendrell (0000-0003-0412-3377, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 180-193 |
| Publication date | 2010-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in World Christianity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1354-9901 • E-ISSN: 1750-0230 |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3366/swc.2010.0005 |
| OpenAlex | W2059443547 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
This article describes and analyses the missiological work of Richard Shaull in the World Student Christian Federation (WSCF) from 1968 to 1972. After working as a missionary for two decades in Colombia and Brazil, Shaull had a clear vision on how structural systems worked in the world and the need for the church to expose, transgress, and transform them. However, those years also had shown him the difficulties of trying to change the ‘church’ as an institution that would always try to preserve itself through the status quo and probably would dance according to the tune the ruler of this world plays. He saw in the WSCF a new type of church that would not be a church. For Shaull only a ‘sectarian option’ would lead the way in transgressing church structures while creating a new koinonia of sanctified worldly servants
Aesthetics · Art · Dance · EXPOSE · Identity (music · Institution · Political science · Ruler · Sociology · Status quo · Theology · Visual arts · Christian Theology and Mission · Law · Pentecostalism and Christianity Studies · Philosophy · Religion, Society, and Development · Religious studies
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |