IAMS 2000

The 2000 IAMS conference was held in South Africa, January 21 to 28, at the Hammanskraal Campus of the University of Pretoria (formerly St Peter's Seminary) about 60km north of Pretoria.

Over 200 missiologists gathered to discuss the theme "Reflecting Christ: Crucified and Living in a broken World."

An index of all the pages on the SAMS web site The home page of the SAMS web site Information about the aims and objects of SAMS and how one may become a member. The Southern African Missiological Society publishes the journal Missionalia three times a year, with articles, reviews and abstracts dealing with Christian mission. African Initiated Churches (AICs) are the fastest-growing Christian groups in many parts of Africa. This page gives some introductory information about them, a list of AIC researchers, and links for some articles where more information can be found. There are several electronic forums for discussing missiological topics. These are available both as e-mail mailing lists or as BBS echo conferences. Links to mission-related web pages in Africa and around the world. You may find more information about how to get in touch with the committee on the SAMS information page. You may use the following addresses for e-mail enquiries: Administration - for information about membership, subscriptions to Missionalia, annual congress, etc. Webmaster - for comments on these web pages, suggestions for links or improvements etc. Sign our Guestbook You are visitor number to this page since 30 July 1999 Click here to leave a message Sign Guestbook View Guestbook View old Guestbook Leave a message The Guestbook allows you to leave a comment, but does not make provision for posting answers to questions. If you have a question to which you would like an answer, please use our missiology message Please don't confuse this message board with the general discussion forums! The general discussion forums bring messages to your computer through a mailing list. But if you post a question or comment in the message board you will need to come back to the SAMS web pages to read the answers.

Inligting in Afrikaans Afrikaanssprekendes sal inligting oor die IAMS 2000 konferensie in Afrikaans op hierdie blad kon kry. The Workshop Themes were: Contextual Christologies in Dialogue Local Church Communities reflecting the healing and reconciling Christ Reflecting Christ in Contemporary Communication and Media The Crucified Christ living in the gifts of Women in Mission The Church's Challenge to reflect Christ in the encounter with the nation Christ Crucified and Living in the context of ethnic and racial conflict Biblical Hermeneutics rediscovering the crucified and living Christ for our broken world Discovering a Christian response to Modernity and Postmodernity Christ and the Quests for Spiritual Fulfillment Mission in the First Millennium Christ Crucified and Living in displaced, dispossessed and economically burdened peoples Christ Crucified and Living with Neighbours of other Faiths Indigenous Churches Ecology New Horizons: Eschatology and Mission in the Third Millennium For more reports on the conference See the following Web page: New IAMS web page Prof Siga Arles, of Serampore, India, has also written a full report of the IAMS 2000 conference. If you would like to discuss the conference, you may join the MISSIOLOGY, MISSION and other discussion forums. It doesn't matter whether you were at the conference or not. People who were there, and those who were not able to be there, are welcome to continue discussion of the IAMS themes in these conferences. To join the main MISSIOLOGY conference, send an e-mail message to Subscribe Missiology and simply send the message. To make it clear that one is discussing IAMS themes, I suggest that the subject lines in these conferences be preceded by "IAMS: " followed by an abbreviation of the theme, for example: IAMS: 1st millennium IAMS: Biblical Hermeneutics IAMS: Contextual Christologies IAMS: Ecology IAMS: Encounter with the nation IAMS: Eschatology IAMS: Ethnic & racial conflict IAMS: Healing and Reconciling IAMS: Indigenous churches IAMS: Modernity & Postmodernity IAMS: Other faiths IAMS: Poor IAMS: Spiritual fulfilment IAMS: Women in mission Some of these themes might spill over into other appropriate conferences - for example, the "Indigenous churches" theme might also relate to the AIC conference, and the "Ethnic and racial conflict" theme might be appropriate for the PEACEMAKERS conference. FOR MORE INFORMATION: About the International Association of Mission Studies (IAMS) and the IAMS conference Southern African Missiological Society (SAMS) and its activities: forums for discussing the themes of the IAMS conference Database of Mission Databases of the Database, Archives and Bibliography interest group (DAB) of IAMS If you need help contact: Steve Hayes Moderator of the MISSIOLOGY conference E-mail: E-mail:

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Started: 30 July 1999
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