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ARTICLE Lecture at the International Symposium on “Religions and Religious Freedom. Human Rights Perspectives on the interplay between Mission and Conversion” (February 18–20, 2009) at the Centre for Interreligious Studies at the University of Bamberg.
Much of what I have stand for or defend, e.g. in my book ‘Missio Dei’, has increasingly been labeled “missional” over the past ten years or so in place of the older term “missionary.” That is not completely coincidental, since in the case of almost all advocates of the expression “missional church” the names Lesslie Newbigin and David Bosch are mentioned as the sources of inspiration and the representatives of the term’s use. Both individuals were closely allied with the term missio Dei.