Background
Arias, Mortimer was born on January 7, 1924 in Durazno, Uruguay. Came to the United States, 1980.
(This book offers a program for Christian evangelism based...)
This book offers a program for Christian evangelism based on the teachings of Jesus in Matthew, Mark, and Luke. This is a superb resource volume for those wishing to test the soundness of their understanding and practice of Christian evangelism. It is solidly grounded in the ministry of Jesus and illumined by testimonial statements and experiences drawn from a cosmopolitan variety of witnesses. . . Arias's key contribution is the rehabilitation of the Kingdom of God as the controlling perspective for the proclamation of the gospel in word and deed. In a style helpful to scholar and nonscholar, he combs biblical sources, especially the Synoptic Gospels, in search of Jesus' own practice. The hermeneutical outlook is clearly dictated by Arias's own battle-tested experience in Bolivia, where he was bishop of the Methodist Church and where he underwent imprisonment as a consequence of his evangelistic practice. After reading this book, dichotomies are inexcusable: - proclamation or social responsibility - intra-church or extra-church evangelization - the conversion of individuals or conversion of communities. This book should become at least a minor classic. --Jorge Lara-Braud, Theology Today Chapter titles: The Good News of the Kingdom The Presence of the Kingdom The Imminence of the Kingdom The In-Breaking of the Kingdom The Eclipse of the Kingdom Announcing the Kingdom as Gift Announcing the Kingdom as Hope Announcing the Kingdom as Challenge End of the Eclipse? Mortimer Arias was Methodist bishop in Boliva, Professor of Hispanic Studies and Evangelization at the School of Theology, Claremont, and a member of the World Council of Churches' Commission on world Mission and Evangelism. With his wife, Esther, he coauthored the popular book The Cry of My People.
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Arias, Mortimer was born on January 7, 1924 in Durazno, Uruguay. Came to the United States, 1980.
Bachelor of Theology, Union Theological Seminary, Buenos Aires, 1946. M.Th., Union Theological Seminary, Buenos Aires, 1957. B.Pre-Medicine, Montevideo University, 1948.
Doctor of Ministry, Perkins School Theology, Dallas, 1977. Doctor of Humane Letters, De Pauw University, Indiana, 1985.
Ordained to ministry, Methodist Church, 1947;
deacon, elder, and bishop orders
executive pastor, Methodist Church, Uruguay, 1947-1956, 58-61;
pastor, district superintendent, Methodist Church, Bolivia, 1962-1967;
national executive secretary, Methodist Church, Bolivia, 1668-1669;
bishop, Evangelical Methodist Church, Bolivia, 1969-1976;
visiting professor, Perkins School Theology, Boston University, 1976-1978;
visiting professor, School Theology, Claremont, California, 1981-1985;
E. Stanley Jones professor mission and evangelization, School Theology, since 1985;
president, Latin American Seminary, San José, Costa Rica, 1986-1989;
president mission and evangelism, Iliff School Theology, 1989-1991. Executive secretary Latin American Methodist Council, 1978-1980. Secretary of mission Latin American Council of Churches, 1979-1980.
Member Committee on World Mission World Council Churches, Geneva, 1973-1983, International Association Missiology (Amsterdam), Holland, since 1980.
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(This book offers a program for Christian evangelism based...)
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Active Assembly of Human Rights, Bolivia, since 1975. Active Justice and Peace Commission, 1970-1975, Methodist Federation for Social Action, United States, since 1981, Central American Task Force, since 1981. Member Association Professors of Mission United States, Academy of Evangelism United States.
Married Esther Leguizamon, January 3, 1948 (deceased 1984). Children: Eunice Esther, Ruben Daniel. Married Ana Beatriz Ferrari, January 1986.