Christian Mission And The Test Of Discipleship: The Princeton Lectures 1970 by Shoki Coe

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


I am thankful that someone, many years later, transcribed and shared with us the text of these valuable lectures.

The main work that Coe is known for is his labor with the Theological Education Fund of the World Council of Churches in the mid-1970s. It was during that time that the word ‘contextualisation’ became widely disseminated—though I note the actual word itself does appear in these lectures.

I especially recommend the last lecture which contains some important autobiographical notes that help us to understand the theory of contextualisation, and how it flows from his of life and experience of colonialism (Japanese and Communist Chinese—not British or American) and the great political and cultural tumult of those times.

I recommend this for any scholars of missions and missiology.



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