For the Knowledge of the Glory of the Lord: Celebrating 40 Years of God's Mission through the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies

If the ultimate measure of a mature indigenous church is its ability to self-theologise, then the formation of OCMS in 1983 was a crucial milestone in the growth of Christianity in the Majority World. It marked the ability of non-Western evangelical churches to confidently assert their own distinctive identities with intellectual rigour within global Christianity, formerly Western-dominated. That this initiative is happening in the midst of one of the leading academic centres of the world m...