Este libro es una introducción al estudio de la misión cristiana entendiendo que en el siglo XXI la misión se ha convertido en la responsabilidad compartida de una iglesia global. El autor ofrece una visión panorámica de los desafíos que se plantean y algunos de los recursos disponibles al obedecer los imperativos misioneros del evangelio. Explora la realidad de cómo la iglesia propaga la fe cristiana, examinando los hechos misioneros desde la perspectiva de las ciencias bíblicas, la teología, la historia y las ciencias sociales.

Mission is the responsibility of a global church. The heart of mission is the drive to cross geographical, cultural and social barriers in order to share the good news of Jesus Christ with all peoples. Drawing on his involvement in missionary work over many years, Samuel Escobar explores how the church spreads the Christian faith. God's word forms the foundation for his reflections, while he uses insights from theological and historical studies as well as from the social sciences to gain a clearer understanding of the church's missionary calling. His stimulating and challenging analysis contributes significantly to a global evangelical dialogue on mission today and in the future. SAMUEL ESCOBAR, a native of Peru and a leading Latin American theologian, was one of the key participants in the International Congress on World Evangelization at Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1974. He is Professor Emeritus of Missiology at Palmer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania, USA and teaches Contemporary Theology at Facultad Protestante de Teologia UEBE in Madrid, Spain. He has previously served as president of the United Bible Societies and the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students. The Langham Global Library provides inter-cultural exposition and application of the Christian faith, within the framework of the Cape Town Commitment, by authors from the international evangelical community.

Veteran missiologist Samuel Escobar explores the new realities of our globalized world, assesses the context of a changing mission field, sets forth a thoroughly biblical theology of missions, and considers implications for how Christians are to go about the task of global mission.

El nombre y la figura de Cristo marcan a Iberoam rica. Los primeros espa oles y portugueses que llegaron al Nuevo Mundo trajeron esta presencia de lo cristiano, en el siglo diecis is. El Cristo de la pen nsula ib rica lleg tanto mediante la presencia y forma de vida de los conquistadores, como por la pr dica de los misioneros que los acompa aron. Este libro fue escrito con la convicci n de que hay una realidad hist rica y social bien establecida que se puede describir como protestantismo latinoamericano, y que es posible trazar el mapa de un desarrollo teol gico en el seno de ese protestantismo. La centralidad del tema cristol gico se explica tanto por la herencia teol gica recibida del protestantismo misionero como por la respuesta contextual a la realidad cultural y espiritual de Am rica Latina, un continente nominalmente cristiano. Si el Cristo cat lico lleg a nosotros v a Espa a, el Cristo del protestantismo ha venido de otros pa ses europeos -como Inglaterra, Francia y Holanda- y de los Estados Unidos de Norteam rica. El Cristo protestante representa la herencia de los reformadores religiosos del siglo XVI, aunque l no se origin con ellos ni por medio de ellos. Samuel Escobar intenta adentrarse en la comprensi n de algunas obras claves de estos diferentes autores como M guez Bonino, Justo Gonz lez, Juan A. Mackay y Emilio N ez, entre otros, que pueden servir como hitos para detectar el itinerario del pensamiento evang lico latinoamericano.

Noted theologian Samuel Escobar offers a magisterial survey and study of Christology in Latin America. Presented for the first time in English, this rich resource starts with the first Spanish influence and moves through popular religiosity and liberationist themes in Catholic and Protestant thought of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, culminating in an important description of the work of the Latin American Theological Fraternity.

Noted theologian Samuel Escobar offers a magisterial survey and study of Christology in Latin America. In Search of Christ in Latin America examines the figure of Jesus Christ in the context of Latin American culture, starting with the first Spanish influence in the sixteenth century and moving through popular religiosity and liberationist themes in Catholic and Protestant thought of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, culminating in an important description of the work of the Fraternidad Teol gica Latinoamericana (FTL). Escobar provides theological, historical, and cultural analysis of Latin American understandings of Christ and places liberation theology within its social and revolutionary context. This book is an important step toward a rich understanding of the spiritual reality and powerful message of Jesus.

Originally published in 2002, Changing Tides introduced a new era in Latin America's major contribution to global mission by one of its leading spokesmen, Samuel Escobar. Much of the change Escobar identified is still unfolding. With the first edition out of print, Regnum Books is delighted to publish this updated and expanded volume to the English-speaking world.