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Karl Marx’s Spirit in Lausanne: Theology of Integral Mission René Padilla: Lausanne upheld Theology of Integral Mission as the mission of the church By Julio Severo Karl Marx was in Lausanne in 1867, for an international Marxist congress. One century later, another international congress drew attention in Lausanne. It was not a Marxist congress. It was an evangelical congress on evangelization. Yet, it gave a fantastic spotlight for Latin American proponents of TIM (Theology of Integral Mission), which, according to its Brazilian proponents, is the Protestant version of the Marxist Liberation Theology. One of them is Ariovaldo Ramos, who...

Lausanne, Theology of Integral Mission and Israel By Julio Severo The Lausanne Movement was in full force in Brazil, April 2014, to discuss its most important theological worry. No, no, their worry is not about Brazilian theologians — all of them adherents of the Theology of Integral Mission (TIM) — who work together with the ruling socialist Workers’ Party and its ideological campaign to advance its anti-family agenda in Brazil. Their worry was exclusively neo-Pentecostals’ Prosperity Theology (PT). According to the Brazilian leftist Protestant magazine Ultimato, “45 specialists from 17 nations — prominent thinkers, ministers and professionals — gathered...