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Reconciliation and Healing as Missiological Tasks

The Conference on World Mission and Evangelism(CWME) of World Council of Churches(WCC) which was held from May 9th to 16th in 2005 in Athens, Greece. The Conference had a certain important significance. To begin with, this conference was held for the first time since the start of 21st century, simultaneously, it took place at the time when 100 years had passed as the 13th Conference after Edinburgh in 1910. Thus, as we looked back on a century and we can prospect the trend and direction of World Mission in the near future, it is very important. In addition, it has taken place for the first time in Greece, the region where the Orthodox Church traditionally started as main churches and furthermore, the Orthodox Church became a member of WCC in 1961. This means that the Orthodox Church, henceforth, has the responsibility to play an important part in World Mission. With much participation and many movements of nonmemberchurches of WCC, Mission Conference has become broader and more fruitful. Especially in relation with the subject, “Come! Holy Spirit - heal and reconcile”, the representatives of the Pentecostal Church stand in the center of the Holy Spirit Movement and have made a positive contribution. Specifically, they regard the role of the Holy Spirit as the most necessary reconciliation and treatment in the world, and they think Christians are called in Jesus Christ in order to do the work. Accordingly, The main title of conference subject is “Called in Christ to reconciling and healing communities.” namely, today’s Mission is regarded as just reconciliation and treatment. As a task of Mission, the theological base of the Athens Conference recognized Reconciliation and Healing as being twofold. Pneumatology, as seen in the subject, is the important theological basis of the Conference. That the Holy Spirit is the official subject of Ecumenical Conference began from the time when the 1991 Canberra WCC Conference adopted “Holy Spirit, Come ! ―Renew all living things!” Dr. Allan Anderson, who was present as a representative of the Pentecostal Church, estimated that compared with the Canberra Conference, the Athens Conference emphasized Pneumatological Subject properly, they only discussed Holy Spirit in Canberra, they did not invite Holy Spirit, but, Holy Spirit was surely invited in Athens Conference. Secondly, the theological Base of the Athens Conference is ‘missio Dei.’ This Conference tried to search contact the spot related to each other as well as to make certain of the relation between ‘missio Dei’ and ‘missio ecclesiae.’ That is the reason why the church declared the Christian Gospel boldly and it was called to participate in ‘missio Dei’ for fulfilling life. After 1952’s Willingen Conference, ‘missio Dei’ entered on stage as theological abjective by Karl Hartenstein has formed the heart of Ecumenical Mission until now. The Athens Conference left us a few tasks. First, we should make the identity of Ecumenical Mission evident, including all the churches of the world. We should become uneasy about how we can derive Ecumenical cooperation from the diverse features in the Orthodox, Pentecostal, and charismatic Churches. Secondly, the real partnership between Western and Non-Western Churches should be poised rightly. The progress of this Conference is still aiming at Westernization, in its language and style. There is an indication that it is searching Europeanism. Thirdly, There was no research about other religions in relation with the Subject. In this Conference there was no lecture and subject of the whole Conference about interfaith relations. In addition, there existed only the subject of Synaxeis.