L’émergence de la missiologie comme discipline critique du fait missionnaire à l’époque contemporaine

Missiology, both as a taught discipline and a field of research, is a fairly recent development in the academic curriculum of French-speaking universities since it dates from the 1980s. How can we explain that this development occurred so late, whereas Protestant Germany instituted its first Univers...

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Main Author: Jean-François Zorn
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Language:fra
Published: Centre interdisciplinaire d’Études du Religieux (CIER) 2008-01-01
Series:Cahiers d'Études du Religieux- Recherches Interdisciplinaires
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/cerri/274
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description Missiology, both as a taught discipline and a field of research, is a fairly recent development in the academic curriculum of French-speaking universities since it dates from the 1980s. How can we explain that this development occurred so late, whereas Protestant Germany instituted its first University Chair in missiology at the end of the nineteenth century ? Following some hypotheses of the French Protestant missiologist Édouard Vaucher (1847-1920), this paper presents some factors that might explain why contemporary missionary practice preceded missiological theory. Oversea missions were born at the beginning of the nineteenth century, following the religious Awakening. Missionaries feared that the findings of missiology be criticical of their practices and believed they were successful without the help of missiology. Through case studies from the « École des Missions de la Société des Missions protestantes française » (1822-1970), we will analyse the epistemological foundations of missiology as a contemporary discipline in theology.
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L’émergence de la missiologie comme discipline critique du fait missionnaire à l’époque contemporaine
Cahiers d'Études du Religieux- Recherches Interdisciplinaires
Nineteenth century
missionary practice
missiology
emergence of a theological discipline
Société des Missions
title L’émergence de la missiologie comme discipline critique du fait missionnaire à l’époque contemporaine
title_full L’émergence de la missiologie comme discipline critique du fait missionnaire à l’époque contemporaine
title_fullStr L’émergence de la missiologie comme discipline critique du fait missionnaire à l’époque contemporaine
title_full_unstemmed L’émergence de la missiologie comme discipline critique du fait missionnaire à l’époque contemporaine
title_short L’émergence de la missiologie comme discipline critique du fait missionnaire à l’époque contemporaine
title_sort l emergence de la missiologie comme discipline critique du fait missionnaire a l epoque contemporaine
topic Nineteenth century
missionary practice
missiology
emergence of a theological discipline
Société des Missions
url https://journals.openedition.org/cerri/274
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