About the Ibero-American Journal of Missiology

Why an academic journal about missions?

The Ibero-American Journal of Missiology (RIMI) is an initiative of the Missionary Association for the Spread of the Gospel (AMIDE) to publish texts prepared by Brazilian and foreign researchers on the central theme of the journal, as well as to disseminate master's dissertations in Missiology.

As president of the institution, I was asked to write the presentation of RIMI, which should be helpful in awakening Christian thinkers who write on the topic.

Most books published in the missiological field in Portuguese are translations of works originally published in Europe, North America and South Africa. Thus, the Brazilian Church owes an unpayable debt of gratitude to international Christian thinkers who have produced a literature. rich missionary mission and has made it available to all peoples.

Therefore, the motto governing the publication of RIMI is the awakening of the missionary vision among national and foreign Christian thinkers. It is believed that looking at mission fields that are white for harvest, there is a willingness to contribute to international literature by writing about missionary themes, especially the Ibero-American worldview.

Important issue is the lack of books and articles by thinkers who write about missions from the point of view of the experiences of the Brazilian missionary in the field, with his cheerful and relaxed manner and who loves to make friends and be with them. Such feature, in turn, is favorable to the cross-cultural field, focus of AMIDE's vision as a missionary agency.

With the publication of RIMI it is hoped to get answers to the challenge of the Great Commission given by Jesus to his church in the dangerous and challenging context of this century.
Twentieth-century theological liberalism has dimmed missionary ardor in many hearts. There is therefore an urgent task to be accomplished that the glory of God may be seen and recognized among all peoples. As it should be, when a people are reached by the Gospel of Christ, their natives become children of God, the Church is born, grows and strengthens.

In this dangerous and challenging time, of growing theological liberalism, of the tremendous multiplication of iniquity, of the cooling of the love of God in the hearts of men, can Ibero-America cooperate with the Body of Christ in the world by publishing articles with them in the advocating a missiology based on the absolute authority of the sacred text, so that the Lord and his great deeds may be known and seen throughout the earth?

AMIDE, through the Center for Advanced Mission Studies (CEAM), launches RIMI, believing in the existence of a group of thinkers who can be called by God to write and publish what they have learned in Word meditation, missionary practice, in teaching and research. RIMI, as a contribution to missionary literature, is an initiative aimed at awakening missions in the hearts of those who are vocational and strengthening the teaching, research, and training of future missionaries who do missions to praise the glory of the Living God.