Christianity’s reality in the global south where poverty, climate change, ecological degradation and marginalization are the daily, lived experience of the majority of the world’s population, presents theologians with a unique moment of challenge and opportunity for theological exploration, experimentation, and missiological innovation. This article explores and analyzes one such experiment, the Bethany Land Institute (BLI, https://bethanylandinstitute.org/) in Uganda. Inspired by Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si’, BLI promotes the concept and practice of integral ecology as a lens for missiological reflection. The article argues that integral ecology, as pursued at BLI, invites us to rethink the traditional themes of Christian mission such as conversion, love, spirituality, and ecclesiology. It also provides a new model of doing theology, one that is particularly appropriate in an era marked by World Christianity, and by the global ecological crisis.

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作为整体生态学的使命：在伯大尼做神学

贫困、气候变化、生态退化和边缘化是世界上大多数人每天的生活经历，基督教在全球南方的现实，为神学家们提供了一个独特的挑战和机遇，用于神学探索、实验和宣教创新。本文探讨并分析了这样一个实验，伯大尼土地研究所 (Bethany Land Institute)BLI,https://bethanylandinstitute.org/) 在乌干达。灵感来自教皇方济各的通谕赞美你,BLI促进整体生态学的概念和实践作为宣教学反思的镜头。文章认为，整体生态学，正如在BLI, 邀请我们重新思考基督教使命的传统主题，如皈依、爱、灵性和教会论。它还提供了一种研究神学的新模式，这种模式特别适合以世界基督教和全球生态危机为标志的时代。