Transformation-An International Journal of Holistic Mission Studies最新文献

{"title":"Book Review: Motus Dei: The Movement of God to Disciple the Nations","authors":"Chris Morton","doi":"10.1177/02653788221112747","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02653788221112747","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41530,"journal":{"name":"Transformation-An International Journal of Holistic Mission Studies","volume":"7 1","pages":"216 - 217"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81937666","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"An Exploration of Christianity in Northeast India in the Emerging Political Context: Trials and Opportunities","authors":"Lalfakawma Ralte","doi":"10.1177/02653788221112666","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02653788221112666","url":null,"abstract":"In the past years, the Northeast people linked the BJP with the principle of Hindutwa (a Hindu way of life) that made it unattractive for them. In recent years, the Party surprisingly takes the area like wildfire by dictating who is to rule in many states. Now, switching from old history to that of a fresher one, a historian may significantly raise a question in this transition: “Is the Hindu way of life entering the region with the emergence of the BJP?” One perception which robustly stands against this question is that the native inhabitants view the coming of the BJP in the Northeast as “a politics of convenience and expediency” to boost up their deprived economic situations. They do not perceive it as a politic of conviction to and assurance for the BJP.","PeriodicalId":41530,"journal":{"name":"Transformation-An International Journal of Holistic Mission Studies","volume":"2 1","pages":"193 - 204"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87370338","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"From ‘Selves’ to ‘One Another’: A Hospitable Proposal for a Post-Colonial Missions Paradigm of Interdependence","authors":"Alan Howell","doi":"10.1177/02653788221110780","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02653788221110780","url":null,"abstract":"The Three-Selves paradigm of establishing indigenous churches that are Self-Propagating, Self-Supporting, and Self-Governing (later including Self-Theologizing as a Fourth “Self”) has been influential in shaping the “end goal” of Protestant missions. While this paradigm oriented missions towards independence, that objective was still shaped by Colonial ideals. This paper proposes a shift from the goal of independent “Selves” to an interdependent posture of “One-Another-ing” (or “Belonging”) for hosts and guests. That proposal is framed by listening to the language of hospitality from the margins: a reading of oft-neglected texts (2 and 3 John) in the context of northern Mozambique, Africa.","PeriodicalId":41530,"journal":{"name":"Transformation-An International Journal of Holistic Mission Studies","volume":"21 1","pages":"181 - 192"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90044543","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“Not by Might, Nor by Power”: Spirit-filled Imaginary for Peace Building in Romania","authors":"Beneamin Mocan","doi":"10.1177/02653788221108908","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02653788221108908","url":null,"abstract":"Peace building in our societies should be central to Christian theology. In a postcommunist culture as is the case of Romania, part of the task of Christian theology is to construct the proper trajectories to peace building by looking back at the time when the Church was trapped in dictatorial clutches. Referring to the Pentecostal Church in Romania, we will see that the best way of bringing to light the possible contributions towards peace building is by making use of the category of “imaginary”. This category helps us both to uncover the decisive identity markers of a given spirituality and to find those much-needed contributions towards peace building.","PeriodicalId":41530,"journal":{"name":"Transformation-An International Journal of Holistic Mission Studies","volume":"29 1","pages":"263 - 270"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83453778","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"African Pentecostal Churches and Racialized Xenophobia: International Migrants as Agents of Transformational Development?","authors":"Elina Hankela, I. Swart, Clementine Nishimwe","doi":"10.1177/02653788221095595","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02653788221095595","url":null,"abstract":"Scholarship on Pentecostal potential and practice forms a significant part of the debate on religion and development, not least when the focus is on sub-Saharan Africa. Yet in this debate African Pentecostal migrant communities have scarcely been represented. The article focuses on two such communities in South Africa, arguing that they may be regarded as developmental agents in the context of racialized xenophobia, even if they do not portray themselves as such. The argument is based on ethnographic fieldwork and shaped through employing the concept of transformational development that centers on restoring relationships. The article concludes that the two communities – living in a context affected by racialized xenophobia – contribute meaningfully towards restoring relationships between people and God, one's relationship with oneself, relationships within the church community as well as relationships between the church community and the neighborhood.","PeriodicalId":41530,"journal":{"name":"Transformation-An International Journal of Holistic Mission Studies","volume":"56 1","pages":"133 - 149"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77702763","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Editing the Story of Life in the Experience of Grief: An Intercultural Pastoral Care of the Nias Church in Indonesia","authors":"Alokasih Gulo, B. Subandrijo, Simon Rachmadi","doi":"10.1177/02653788221098330","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02653788221098330","url":null,"abstract":"In the moment of grief, people need consolation coming from the very core of human existence: living communication with one’s source of being. This communication ensues stories of life-sustaining one’s self-identity and spiritual vitality. When a story of life enlightens one’s experience of grief, it becomes a curative force for one’s soul-healing process. Yet if the life story becomes ineffective, it needs an “editing” process—or a revision—to get a meaning reconstruction that is more compatible with the grief situation. Using a postcolonial ethnography, we evaluate the pastoral care done by Nias Christian Church for people experiencing grief. We will describe a theoretical framework to argue that pastoral care is fundamentally an editing process of the story of life-sustaining the well-being of the human soul. We, then, will describe the Nias tradition on grief. Finally, we will discuss how the church should develop pastoral care interculturally.","PeriodicalId":41530,"journal":{"name":"Transformation-An International Journal of Holistic Mission Studies","volume":"268 1","pages":"163 - 180"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72403588","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"An African Response to Karl Barth's Notion of Evil as Nothingness","authors":"Rowland Onyenali","doi":"10.1177/02653788221096152","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02653788221096152","url":null,"abstract":"In African spiritual exercises, there is so much talk about the menace of demons or evil spirits. These spirits are conceived of as the antithesis of God or as the spiritual opposition to the benign activities of God. Modern African religion sees them as the causes of sicknesses and any form of catastrophe in the lives of people. The paper takes off from Karl Barth's conception of evil and demons as nothingness and argues that when correctly understood, the so-called evil spirits or demons are nothing but the active agents of God in His relationship with humans. Since African cosmology sees the world as a universe of forces held in harmony by God, it seems that the African idea of the deities and spirits as subordinates of God better captures the idea of the evil spirits or demons as nothingness outside the purview of God than the Barthian conception.","PeriodicalId":41530,"journal":{"name":"Transformation-An International Journal of Holistic Mission Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"150 - 162"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79636039","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book Review: Advanced Missiology: How to Study Missions in Credible and Useful Ways by Kenneth Nehrbass","authors":"K. Franklin","doi":"10.1177/02653788221092929","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02653788221092929","url":null,"abstract":"Credible people give their endorsement to this work. For example, Scott Moreau of Wheaton College Graduate School states that it is ‘a perfect book for those who want an overarching view of contemporary missiology from an evangelical vantage.’ Enoch Wan from Western Seminary notes how the gap within ‘the scarcity of textbooks in missiological research methodology’ is filled by this book. Nehrbass’s use of ‘advanced’ in the book’s title draws from a cross-section of primarily evangelical theologians and missiologists and assumes the text will guide the discipline of mission studies into a steadier and relevant future. Nehrbass’s biography mentions his experience of teaching missiology in two US evangelical institutions, and this lends credibility to his work. From the outset, the author acknowledges the crowded and complex field of missiology because of its integration with many academic fields (p. 2). Therefore, the book’s purpose is to help the reader ‘integrate multiple academic fields to increase [one’s] understanding of how Christianity spreads across cultures’ (p. 1). The author’s definition of missiology is ‘the utilization of multiple academic disciplines to develop strategies for making disciples across cultures’, and therefore the missiologist is ‘someone whose primary work is to study the way Christianity spreads across cultural boundaries’ (p. 14). In other words, missiology is viewed as the study of cross-cultural disciple-making. This perspective is apparent in mapping a missional hermeneutic of the crosscultural nature of mission with the ‘heart goal’ of ‘commit[ting] to joining in God’s desire to make Himself known throughout the world’ (p. 36). This is further developed in chapter 8, where cross-cultural discipleship is defined as ‘the process of teaching people to obey all that Jesus commanded’ and needs to include both teaching and action (p. 199). Essential to the structure of the book is the distinction drawn between theories and models; the former being ‘descriptive explanations, grounded in data, of the way the world works’ (p. 6) and the latter are ‘prescriptive ways of doing things [or] “best practices” that emerge from empirical research’ (p. 8). Mission theories and models are passed down through generations of researchers and practitioners. Some stand the test of time, and others go into dormancy. These are signs of how missiology as an academic discipline has matured through the rigorous pursuits of past and current participants in the field. Nehbrass is clear about the interdisciplinary nature of missiology by stating how it draws from other academic disciplines in its pursuit of creating new theories and models. Examples within the scholar’s work of drawing from other fields include globalisation studies, anthropology, theology and biblical studies. The author’s missiological framework departs from the conventional three-legged stool metaphor for ‘theory, history, and anthropology (more broadly, the social sciences)’","PeriodicalId":41530,"journal":{"name":"Transformation-An International Journal of Holistic Mission Studies","volume":"17 1","pages":"122 - 125"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73508250","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"March 2022_Transformation","authors":"","doi":"10.1177/02653788221094794","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02653788221094794","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41530,"journal":{"name":"Transformation-An International Journal of Holistic Mission Studies","volume":"2 1","pages":"126 - 130"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90777193","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Rethinking Ao Naga traditional religion","authors":"Tiatemsu Longkumer","doi":"10.1177/02653788221099504","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02653788221099504","url":null,"abstract":"Understanding the Ao Naga traditional religion detached from its colonial and Christian theological imprints is still in a very nascent stage. Literature review reveals that there are copious writings on Ao traditional religion, seemingly indicating that it is one of the most studied aspects of Ao society. Even though Ao traditional religion is the most studied aspect of Ao society, it is also one of the most misunderstood aspects of the society. Such misunderstanding stems from the bubble of references among the academic writers concentrated on colonial and Ao theologians’ writings with negligible scrutiny. This paper is an attempt to break the bubble and challenge the mindscape by giving an alternative proposal. The first section critiques the colonial writings of J. P. Mills and W. C. Smith. The second section critiques work by Ao Christian theologians. In the last section, I propose a way of understanding Ao traditional religion gleaning from the work of contemporary animism.","PeriodicalId":41530,"journal":{"name":"Transformation-An International Journal of Holistic Mission Studies","volume":"12 1","pages":"99 - 110"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75009905","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}