Mission StudiesPub Date : 2023-04-12DOI: 10.1163/15733831-12341885
Christopher Joby
{"title":"Two Approaches by Dutch Missionaries to Communicating the Gospel in Seventeenth-Century Taiwan","authors":"Christopher Joby","doi":"10.1163/15733831-12341885","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15733831-12341885","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Between 1624 and 1662, the Dutch East India Company operated a trading post in Taiwan. It employed missionaries who attempted to convert indigenous Formosans to Reformed Christianity by compiling texts in the Formosan language, Siraya. This article analyzes texts compiled in this language to establish how the Dutch missionaries used them to communicate the Gospel. This analysis shows that they adopted two distinct approaches to compiling texts in Siraya. Early missionaries, above all Robertus Junius, modified biblical texts such as the Ten Commandments and Lord’s Prayer, changing words and phrases to “speak to” the Formosan culture. His approach constituted a form of accommodation and was subsequently criticized by missionary colleagues in Taiwan. Later missionaries translated the biblical texts more literally. Nevertheless, they used a Formulary as a discursive textual space in which to explain and, to some extent, make the text relevant to the Formosans.","PeriodicalId":42383,"journal":{"name":"Mission Studies","volume":"208 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134952288","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}
Mission StudiesPub Date : 2023-04-12DOI: 10.1163/15733831-12341888
Wouter Theodoor (W.T.) van Veelen
{"title":"The Gospel as a Life to Live: Tokunboh Adeyemo and the Evangelical Debate on Mission","authors":"Wouter Theodoor (W.T.) van Veelen","doi":"10.1163/15733831-12341888","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15733831-12341888","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article analyzes the theological legacy of Tokunboh Adeyemo, a leading voice in African evangelical circles. In academic literature on African Christianity, African evangelical theologians are often accused of endorsing a biblicist or Westernized form of theology that fails to deeply engage with African realities. This study retraces Adeyemo’s contribution to the evangelical debates on mission after the International Congress on World Evangelization held in Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1974. It will be argued that, while Adeyemo undoubtedly was influenced by North American dualism, he increasingly distanced himself from Western theological concepts, advocating for a broad, holistic, contextual, and transformational understanding of mission. Thus, this study shows that categories commonly used to describe African evangelicalism, such as “biblicist,” “conservative,” “dogmatic,” and so on, do not do justice to the complexity, heterogeneity, and contextuality of African evangelicalism.","PeriodicalId":42383,"journal":{"name":"Mission Studies","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134952271","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}
Mission StudiesPub Date : 2023-04-12DOI: 10.1163/15733831-12341887
Karl Inge Tangen
{"title":"Integrating Pentecostal Healing and Western Medicine: A Case Study","authors":"Karl Inge Tangen","doi":"10.1163/15733831-12341887","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15733831-12341887","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Medical missions are criticized for having a secularizing effect. Progressive Pentecostals who combine prayer and Western medicine represent one possible solution to this problem. This article explores whether Western medicine and Pentecostal-charismatic healing practices can be sustainably integrated by offering a case study of the medical missiology of Osvald Orlien. The article shows that Orlien’s model provides a theological conception of holistic health, a fusion of Pentecostalism and the African worldview, and the formation of a Pentecostal theology of medical science that affirms natural laws and human reason. Orlien offered a holistic theology of healing and an account of moral virtues that could be intelligibly defended. He encountered opposition from both Pentecostals who rejected Western medicine and rationalistic skeptics who refused Pentecostal healing practices. The case study also identifies key factors contributing to sustainable, institutional integration of medicine and charismatic practices in the Congolese context.","PeriodicalId":42383,"journal":{"name":"Mission Studies","volume":"91 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134952274","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}
Mission StudiesPub Date : 2023-04-12DOI: 10.1163/15733831-12341890
Darren Cronshaw, Hanna Hyun, Peter Laughlin, Titus S. Olorunnisola, Stephen Parker
{"title":"Mission as Hospitality with Refugees and Other Migrants: Exploring Ross Langmead’s “Guests and Hosts” in Australian Churches","authors":"Darren Cronshaw, Hanna Hyun, Peter Laughlin, Titus S. Olorunnisola, Stephen Parker","doi":"10.1163/15733831-12341890","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15733831-12341890","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article explores the “mission of God” and its relationship with refugees and migrants in Australia. At its best, this mission is experienced as hospitality to, by, and with people of cultural diversity. Ross Langmead (2014) called for a theology of mission as an expression of divine hospitality to those marginalized and forcefully displaced, and recalled the significance of the cultural diversity that the Bible celebrates. By hospitably serving and learning from refugees and migrants, Australian local churches function as both guests and hosts. Langmead suggested this hospitality has ten dimensions including advocacy, meals, mutual learning, and “openness to a transforming divine presence” (2014:39ff). It is this last dimension that invites reflection as to how all ten may be more broadly applied. This article is a conversation on the experience of Australian churches at large in giving and receiving hospitality with refugees and other migrants. The conversation demonstrates the value of practicing hospitality for the sake of mutual learning and shared mission amongst the global diaspora in the Australian context.","PeriodicalId":42383,"journal":{"name":"Mission Studies","volume":"106 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134952074","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}
Mission StudiesPub Date : 2023-04-12DOI: 10.1163/15733831-12341900
Sochanngam Shirik
{"title":"God at Work in the World: Theology and Mission in the Global Church, written by Lalsangkima Pachuau","authors":"Sochanngam Shirik","doi":"10.1163/15733831-12341900","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15733831-12341900","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42383,"journal":{"name":"Mission Studies","volume":"227 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134952275","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}
Mission StudiesPub Date : 2023-04-12DOI: 10.1163/15733831-12341896
Kong-hi Lo
{"title":"Contextualization and the Old Testament: Between Asian and Western Perspectives, written by Jerry Hwang","authors":"Kong-hi Lo","doi":"10.1163/15733831-12341896","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15733831-12341896","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42383,"journal":{"name":"Mission Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134952276","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}
Mission StudiesPub Date : 2022-12-05DOI: 10.1163/15733831-12341868
Xiaoli Yang (杨晓莉)
{"title":"Where Are You Going?","authors":"Xiaoli Yang (杨晓莉)","doi":"10.1163/15733831-12341868","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15733831-12341868","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42383,"journal":{"name":"Mission Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47214114","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}
Mission StudiesPub Date : 2022-12-05DOI: 10.1163/15733831-12341872
Zhixi Wang
{"title":"The Registered Church in China: Flourishing in a Challenging Environment, written by Wayne Ten Harmsel","authors":"Zhixi Wang","doi":"10.1163/15733831-12341872","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15733831-12341872","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42383,"journal":{"name":"Mission Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49532470","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}
Mission StudiesPub Date : 2022-12-05DOI: 10.1163/15733831-12341873
Alex R. Mayfield
{"title":"Maoism and Grassroots Religion: The Communist Revolution and the Reinvention of Religious Life in China, written by Xiaoxuan Wang","authors":"Alex R. Mayfield","doi":"10.1163/15733831-12341873","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15733831-12341873","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42383,"journal":{"name":"Mission Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46998357","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}