Blogging David Bosch and transforming mission

Abstract

An innovative and participatory teaching method using interactive digital media and "blogging" was used to teach and discuss David Bosch's Transforming mission. The teaching method is described, as along with a brief summary of ten of Bosch's elements of an emerging ecumenical paradigm. From these discussions, it became clear that Transforming mission found fertile ground in the hearts and minds of a digitally literate, innovative generation of emerging theologians. The end result of these public digital discussions provides a window into the way emerging missiologists reinterpret Transforming mission twenty years after its first publication. A brief summary of interesting points of discussion and reinterpretations of Bosch's description of "mission as ..." introduces the reader to a community of trustworthy interpreters who have taken the first small steps towards Transforming mission through blogging.