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“Mission in the context of war and weapons of mass destruction”
Mr P. Venkateswara Rao is presently doing his postgraduate research in Missiology in Union Biblical Seminary, India. The present research paper is prepared as a part of his study.
1. Introduction:
We are living in a world where there is no peace and security and also “we need not remind anybody that we are in a global war.”1 Every country has its own insecure situations which lead them to acquire dreadful arms. Some of the cold wars happened due to oil resources. “Oil was at the heart of the first post-Cold War crisis of the 1990s –Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait.”2 The past history says that “among Hitler’s most important strategic objectives in the invasion of the Soviet Union was the capture of the oil fields in the Caucasus.”3 In fact today’s world is in the crisis of oil and many more wars may happen in the future.
What is the affect of Wars on Christian church? What is the contribution of church in this context of wars in the past and what is the role of the church in this context? These are some of the major questions the church should deal with. This paper tries to answer these questions and also this paper is an attempt to understand the mission of the church in the context of war and weapons of mass destruction. Since it’s a huge topic to address, here I limit my paper to the church’s struggle and response to the arms race and war in the context of the church in India, Japan, Germany, Former Soviet, Korea, Vietnam and Middle East ...
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