What They Taught Us Religion_ Biblical Studies Toward the Fourth Period

Toward the Fourth Period

Integrating missiology and ecclesiology in a vision of a church in mission made up of all the world's peoples

2 May 2002

Espín is professor of systematic theology at the University of San Diego and associate director of the Center for the Study of Latino/a Catholicism

What They Taught Us Religion_ Biblical Studies Toward the Fourth PeriodFor years, according to Fr. John Walsh, Maryknoll missioners have gone out "armed with seminary notes and skills and oozing righteousness, prepared to give but not to receive, to teach but not to learn." And most found out, often to their great chagrin, that "mission was a two way street." Mission means carrying the good news of the Gospel to the four corners of the world but it also means taking on wisdom and knowledge from the people about building