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The church's thinking about mission has undergone significant transformation several times in the past centuries. The most important consequence of these changes was the rediscovery of God's role, which missiology described with the term missio Dei. The essence of this approach is that the mission is not carried out by the Church on its own, but rather by God. The Church is involved in this service.
Parallel to the change in the view of the mission, the range of challenges also changed significantly. The main challenge is no longer cultures different from the European one, but the secularization born within Western thought, as well as the economic and social injustice that is being fulfilled on a global level.
In this article, we explore the concept of contemporary mission, as well as the most important contemporary challenges, researching the question of how effectively the missio Dei can provide an answer to the problems of our time.
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