TY - CHAP

T1 - "Soft Mission" as a Form and Method of Missionary Activity

AU - Церпицкая, Ольга Львовна

AU - Маркушина, Наталья Юрьевна

PY - 2013

Y1 - 2013

N2 - The article deals with the form and method of missionary activity – “soft mission”, which means personal testimony of faith implemented in the conventionally play form at the moment when the mission object is not ready for the preaching, and which is aimed at the object’s intention to think over the information associating it with the specific situation and events. “Soft mission” implies the methodology of “reference”, non-obligatory missionary religious identification, and the absence of the “missionary – object of mission” relations despite the existence of close or situational contact between them. “Soft mission” is the unique form and method of mission, quite new for Russian Orthodox Church but important for both clergy and lay people who are lack of missionary activity possibilities.

AB - The article deals with the form and method of missionary activity – “soft mission”, which means personal testimony of faith implemented in the conventionally play form at the moment when the mission object is not ready for the preaching, and which is aimed at the object’s intention to think over the information associating it with the specific situation and events. “Soft mission” implies the methodology of “reference”, non-obligatory missionary religious identification, and the absence of the “missionary – object of mission” relations despite the existence of close or situational contact between them. “Soft mission” is the unique form and method of mission, quite new for Russian Orthodox Church but important for both clergy and lay people who are lack of missionary activity possibilities.

KW - Russian Orthodox Church

KW - mission

KW - members of mission

KW - missionary object

M3 - статья в сборнике

SP - 62

EP - 68

BT - The International Conferene on Social Science and Humanity

PB - BERFORTS INFORMATION PRESS LIMITED

ER -