Two very different views of the future of mission in World Council of Churches

Raiser addresses the classical "Christocentric universalism", a view that shaped the WCC from its beginning through the General Assembly in  Uppsala (1968), believing it's existance is in question from the challanges facing it.

The Christocentric Universalist view involves Christ, the church, a universal perspective, and an emphasis on salvation history and eschatology.

The challanges that threaten the classical Christian paradigm (as per Raiser) or cast doubts on its viability:

Religious pluralism

Injustice and oppression in various forms

ecological threats

UPPSALA 1968--Raiser recognizes an alternative paradigm, "Trinitarianism", which sheds institutional distinctions between church and world and society.

"Christomonistic" and "triumphalist" tendencies of Christocentrism (ecclesiocentrism in traditional ecumenical theology), as well as "Christian Exclusivism" can then be avoided.

Replace salvation history with oikoumene as the mission, stressing concrete human solidarity in stewardship