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We have discussed God’s mission as word-event in a wider spectrum and integrated several important issues and challenges—coming from postmodern theory, economic globalization, postcolonial suspicion of Christian mission, and World Christianity—into the theological-missional reframing of God’s narrative. Thus we have attempted to reinterpret missio Dei in a wider horizon by reconstructing a mission of word-event. This theological reconstruction dealt with a theological-Trinitarian discussion of missio Dei in light of word-event and actualized Christian mission of God’s narrative in a postmodern-pluralist context. In seeking God’s narrative in covenant with Israel, we have proposed a hermeneutical reflection of word event in a post-Shoah configuration that facilitates our engagement with Jewish community and religious outsiders. Therefore, a missiology of word event in a wider horizon pertains to several public and intercul-tural issues where the classic concept of missio Dei left off.
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Chung, P.S. (2010). Reconstructing God’s Narrative as Mission in a Hermeneutical-Intercultural Configuration. In: Public Theology in an Age of World Christianity. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230106550_5
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