Missions and Money

Affluence as a Missionary Problem

By: Jonathan J. Bonk

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Hardcover | 1 March 2007 | Edition Number 2

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When it was first published in 1991, Missions and Money became a much-discussed book in Christian missionary circles. In this revised edition, complete with statistics, Jonathan J Bonk revisits the issue of affluent missionaries working among poor people. Bonk offers new reflections in the light of a changed situation, one marked by increases in the number of short-term missionaries and increases in the numbers of Asians, Africans, and Latin Americans who are leaving their homelands to serve as missionaries to other people. The conversation on the ambiguity of wealth and Christian missionary outreach is deepened with essays by Christopher J H Wright on the righteous rich in the Hebrew Bible and by Justo Gonzalez on faith and wealth in the Christian Bible and the early Church.

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Preface to the ASM Series	p. ix
Foreword: Missions and Foreign Money	p. xi
Foreword: An African Viewpoint on Wealthy Missionaries	p. xvii
Introduction to the Revised Edition	p. xxi
Introduction to the First Edition	p. xxvii
The Context of Western Missionary Affluence	p. 1
The Fact and the Extent of Western Missionary Affluence	p. 3
The Historical and Cultural Context of Missionary Affluence	p. 17
The Rationale for Missionary Affluence	p. 37
Economic Arguments	p. 39
Domestic Rationale	p. 43
Social Justification	p. 45
Strategic Validations	p. 47
Consequences of Western Missionary Affluence	p. 51
Relational Costs of Missionary Affluence	p. 53
Affluence and Missionary Insulation	p. 53
Affluence and Missionary Isolation	p. 55
Affluence and Social Gulf	p. 57
Economic Disparity and the Illusion of Superiority	p. 58
Affluence and Relational Mistrust	p. 60
Affluence, Envy, and Hostility	p. 64
Communicatory and Strategic Consequences of Missionary Affluence	p. 69
Communicatory Costs of Missionary Affluence	p. 70
Strategic Costs of Missionary Affluence	p. 79
Theological, Ethical, and Biblical Considerations on Missionary Affluence	p. 89
Theological and Ethical Considerations	p. 90
An Outline of Biblical Teaching on Wealth and Poverty	p. 98
Conclusion	p. 156
The Challenge of Western Missionary Affluence	p. 57
Toward a Missiology of the Righteous Rich	p. 159
Setting the Direction	p. 164
A Place to Begin: Toward a Missiology of the "Righteous Rich"	p. 165
Practical Steps	p. 172
Back to Our Foundation: Theological Moorings	p. 182
Faith and Wealth in the Hebrew Scriptures and the Early Church	p. 189
The Righteous Rich in the Old Testament	p. 191
A Canonical Survey	p. 192
A Thematic Summary	p. 199
New Testament Koinonia and Wealth	p. 203
The Setting	p. 204
From the Jesus Movement to the First Urban Churches	p. 207
The Growth of the Urban Communities	p. 211
The Meaning of Koinoia	p. 212
The Later Books of the New Testament	p. 220
Wealth in the Subapostolic Church	p. 223
The Didache	p. 223
Pseudo-Barnabas	p. 226
Epistle to Diognetus	p. 227
Hermas	p. 228
Other Apostolic Fathers	p. 232
The Apologists	p. 234
Select Bibliography	p. 237
Index	p. 261
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