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The Glocalization of Mission as Transformation

How the Global and the Local have shaped a Movement

Palmer Seminary of Eastern University, Wynnewood, PA, USA

The reality of globalization warrants an understanding of mission that negotiates global and local realities. This article explores the way in which the global and the local have informed Mission as Transformation, a holistic missionary movement among radical evangelicals that developed in earnest since Lausanne ’74. How have local expressions — particularly Filipino expressions — of Transformation helped to form a global understanding of Transformation? And vice versa: How does a global understanding serve local expressions? The Transformational view of the global-local — or glocal — relationship as symbiotic and not antagonistic undermines both universal theologies that are imposed on all cultures and to local theologies that lack global accountability.

Key Words: intercultural • globalism • localism • missiology • Philippines • Transformation

Transformation: An International Journal of Holistic Mission Studies, Vol. 26, No. 4, 247-257 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/0265378809342355


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