Missiology-An International Review最新文献

{"title":"Editor’s Notes","authors":"Rich Starcher","doi":"10.1177/00918296221080582","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00918296221080582","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43205,"journal":{"name":"Missiology-An International Review","volume":"20 1","pages":"111 - 112"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83327104","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":"Women’s piety movements in Islam","authors":"Moyra Dale","doi":"10.1177/00918296211072845","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00918296211072845","url":null,"abstract":"The Muslim women’s piety movement extends in different forms across the Islamic world today. While female scholars and teachers are not new in the history of Islam, the scale of this movement constitutes a significant shift in the place of women within Islam, by bringing discussion of issues of Muslim jurisprudence and Qur’anic interpretation into the framework of women’s lives and questions. The growing presence of female Muslim scholars and teachers is an implicit challenge to the widely quoted hadith that women are lacking in piety and intelligence. This article describes the movement, discusses its impact in Muslim society, and asks what the implications might be for Christian missiology.","PeriodicalId":43205,"journal":{"name":"Missiology-An International Review","volume":"16 1","pages":"216 - 228"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81654705","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":"Canaan Hymns: Songs from the fields—A grassroots missiology of the Chinese church movement","authors":"Xiaoli Yang","doi":"10.1177/00918296211072846","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00918296211072846","url":null,"abstract":"The 21st century is marked by the exponential growth of Christianity in the Global East beyond Christendom. In the last thirty years, Canaan Hymns (jianan shixuan, 迦南诗选), over two thousand indigenous songs composed by a rural woman named Lü Xiaomin (吕小敏, 1970–) have spread and been sung from the underground to the world. They have become a hallmark of the Chinese church and mission movement beyond the borders of the Mainland. Coined as “God’s gift to China,” Xiaomin, a junior high school drop-out without any musical training, wrote these songs inspired by the Holy Spirit from the village fields of northern China. Despite ample video clips and documentaries of Xiaomin and Canaan Hymns being made available online, scholarship on their missiology has been underheard and underdeveloped. Drawing from the methodologies of “lived theology,” “grassroots theology,” and “biography as theology,” this article studies the formation, themes, and styles of Canaan Hymns through textual analysis, literature reviews, and interviews. In conversation with missiologists and theologians of the West and Asia such as Bosch, Moltmann, and Chan, a grassroots missiology that is contextual, pneumatological, and communal is discerned and articulated. In doing so, not only voices from the margins are heard and brought into global conversations, missio Dei is also given new meanings and significance in the context of the contemporary indigenous mission movement.","PeriodicalId":43205,"journal":{"name":"Missiology-An International Review","volume":"379 1","pages":"229 - 239"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77873711","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":"Perceptions of Juche ideology by expats in North Korea: A qualitative study","authors":"R. Holmes, Eunice Hong","doi":"10.1177/00918296211064294","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00918296211064294","url":null,"abstract":"The central research question of this qualitative study was: What are expatriate perceptions of North Korean (Juche) ideology? Other studies on Juche have examined Juche from religious, political, or missiological lenses. However, few qualitative studies have been done on this subject. While it is nearly impossible to conduct research with North Koreans living in North Korea, this study collected data from nine expatriates who had lived in North Korea around the time of the interviews. From the data, two major categories emerged: the foundational influences and function of Juche. The results indicate that the participants perceive Juche to be influenced by Korean culture, nationalism, and humanism, while the participants understand the function of Juche as a system of control, a religion, and an ideology.","PeriodicalId":43205,"journal":{"name":"Missiology-An International Review","volume":"43 11 Pt 2 1","pages":"362 - 373"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72986088","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":"Bridging or breaking: An ethic of communication for missional engagement","authors":"Phil Zarns","doi":"10.1177/00918296211057101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00918296211057101","url":null,"abstract":"Global workers must work toward an appropriate ethic of communication both corporately and personally to effectively engage all recipients of the gospel. Further, an ethic of communication for missional engagement must be biblically faithful and culturally appropriate in order to create ‘bridging encounters’ with potential recipients of the gospel (Kraft and Gilliland, 2005: 53). ‘Bridging encounters’ consist of communicative pathways that build common ground for engagement regardless of the level of agreement; they demonstrate cultural consideration, engagement, and respect of participants’ ideas, which works well in a postmodern age that values conversation. Since the 1920s, missiological characterization has provided a rhetoric of the ‘unsaved’, ‘unincorporated’, and ‘unreached’1 when describing people groups. This rhetoric of ‘un-’ may unintentionally cause breaking encounters instead of bridging encounters. Designating people groups as ‘in’ or ‘out’ can create a sense of ‘othering’ between global workers and recipients of the gospel. The consequent psychological friction proves detrimental to creating personal bridging encounters where individuals communicate the gospel in a more fluid manner (Bhargava and Manoli, 2015).","PeriodicalId":43205,"journal":{"name":"Missiology-An International Review","volume":"25 1","pages":"400 - 419"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84019155","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":"Revisiting the person of peace: A response to A. Matthews","authors":"Magnus Robinson","doi":"10.1177/00918296211060762","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00918296211060762","url":null,"abstract":"Luke 10:1–16 records Jesus sending a group of 70 (in some texts 72) disciples to proclaim the kingdom. If an open-hearted “child of peace” welcomed them, the messengers were to stay with them, blessing and evangelizing them and their household. Since the 1960s, proponents of the “person of peace strategy” have derived from this text a methodology for contemporary disciple-making. Matthews, writing in this journal, critiques the strategy as a hermeneutically weak misreading of the text, which hijacks instructions intended only for the original hearers, and uncritically applies them today. Matthews does accept that Luke 10 contains principles relevant to contemporary mission, but for reasons of space he declines to say what these principles may be. I attempt to identify these principles through a missional reading approach and ask how Luke 10 forms communities for mission then and now. I conclude that its prime purpose is to form Christians to be interdependent messengers of profound peace, who seek out interdependent children of hospitable peace. I then apply these insights to our current missiological moment. Finally, in light of this discussion I assess the specific “person of peace strategy” itself. While I offer some criticisms, I find more to appreciate about the strategy than Matthews does.","PeriodicalId":43205,"journal":{"name":"Missiology-An International Review","volume":"4 1","pages":"337 - 348"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88769383","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":"What led Asian American Buddhist background believers in Hawaii to become Christian: A grounded theory study","authors":"K. Hilderbrand","doi":"10.1177/00918296211057099","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00918296211057099","url":null,"abstract":"The question asked of this grounded theory study was what are the perceived reasons Asian American Buddhist background believers in Hawaii converted to evangelical Christianity? The following factors were perceived as reasons for participants converting to Christianity: an exposure to Christianity, a crisis, a quest or search, and a divine connection—either emotional or miraculous. Studies on transformation or conversion have found a similar pattern (Mezirow, 1991; Rambo, 1993; Tippett, 1992; Ullman, 1989). However, more recent studies have identified an emotional or even supernatural component to conversion that needs to be explored further (Hilderbrand, 2016, 2020, 2021; Iyadurai, 2015; Snook et al., 2018). The outcome of conversion was expressed as a feeling of peace, joy and happiness.","PeriodicalId":43205,"journal":{"name":"Missiology-An International Review","volume":"31 1","pages":"386 - 399"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81383140","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":"Experiencing recent missionary evacuations: Traumatic stress and loss as social networks break down","authors":"S. Walters","doi":"10.1177/00918296211057100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00918296211057100","url":null,"abstract":"Although missionary evacuations have occurred since the beginning of missions, little research has explored modern missionary evacuations. In this qualitative study, the author analyzes the experiences of four missionaries who made unplanned departures from their Asian host country in 2018. Although each study participant had different demographic characteristics and their story was unique, common elements of the evacuation experience were shared: growing uneasiness, mounting stress, the decision to evacuate, a sudden exit, and waves of transition. The most traumatic aspect throughout the experience was the severe disruption of their relationships. Factors contributing to the breakdown of social networks included surveillance and scrutiny, searches and interrogations, contact tracing, the compromising of digital communication channels, and the final exit. The traumatic effects of the breakdown of social networks highlight the critical importance of relationships in the life and work of missionaries, particularly during crises. Understanding how evacuations are experienced enables the wider Church—which is preparing, sending out, and receiving missionaries back—to better care for its missionaries and contribute to their restoration and healing from trauma.","PeriodicalId":43205,"journal":{"name":"Missiology-An International Review","volume":"64 1","pages":"251 - 272"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74413886","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":"My father was a wandering Aramean: Toward a missiological understanding of hybridity in the Abrahamic narrative","authors":"Sarita Gallagher Edwards","doi":"10.1177/00918296211043529","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00918296211043529","url":null,"abstract":"The person of Abraham embodies the tension of living in-between. In studying the life of Abraham, the focus is often on the theological importance of the patriarch’s missional role as a vehicle of blessing to the nations as expressed in Genesis 12:1–3. In recent years, however, the missiological significance of who Abraham was has begun to emerge. Imbedded in the very identity of Abraham is this sense of hybridity; of multiple belonging; cultural identities wedded together; of the fusion that takes place when you are in-between people groups, languages, and lands. In the case of Abraham, this hybrid identity is magnified as the patriarch leaves his Mesopotamian birthplace and travels to a new land that never fully becomes his own. Throughout the rest of his life, Abraham remains a “wandering Aramean” and a foreigner until his death. As God’s missional blessing through Abraham is fulfilled in Scripture, Abraham’s hybrid identity also embodies God’s missional heart to the nations. In this article, I highlight how the hybridity embedded in Abraham’s person provides insight into contemporary mission theory and praxis.","PeriodicalId":43205,"journal":{"name":"Missiology-An International Review","volume":"12 1","pages":"41 - 47"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77123514","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":"Michael T. Cooper, Ephesiology: A Study of the Ephesian Movement","authors":"Shane Priebe","doi":"10.1177/00918296211031694c","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00918296211031694c","url":null,"abstract":"By Scott W. Sunquist Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2019. xii, 208 pp., paper. $24.00 Reviewed by: Leroy Seat, Seinan Gakuin University, Japan This is a tumultuous time for the church and for the churches of the world. While some megachurches are thriving, many small churches are struggling and even dying. Most mainline church denominations are declining and many of the younger generations who grew up in the church are asking, “Why church?” This is the question examined in Scott W. Sunquist’s new book. Sunquist has had a noteworthy career as an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), as a missionary to Singapore (1987–95), and as a seminary professor and administrator. Since July 2019 he has served as president of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. From his broad experience and keen mind, Sunquist has written a helpful book for pastors, church leaders, and active church members—and, it is hoped, for those who are having doubts about what the church is and what it is for in this turbulent time. Those who have left local churches because of various dissatisfactions, though, will likely not be lured back to church unless they can actually see a church embodying the characteristics Sunquist describes so well in his book. Two dualities are central to Sunquist’s approach to explaining the church. Good churches should be both connected to the past and culturally relevant; that is, they should be both connected and contextual (p. 8). The second duality emphasized throughout the book are the two central purposes of the church: worship and witness (p. 11). Five of the eight chapters of the book focus on words relating to “five body movements of worship”: come, stand, kneel, sit, and go (p. 13). Chapter 4, “Stand,” is a helpful chapter about praise, followed by “Kneel,” a valuable chapter about confession. “Go,” the seventh chapter, is the main one about “witness,” the second main purpose of the church. It is also a beneficial chapter, but—and here is one of the main deficiencies of the book—witness is seen almost entirely as evangelism and scarcely linked to witnessing to the call for social justice as evident in the Old Testament prophets and in the teachings of Jesus. There is, thankfully, in the final chapter a brief discussion of the church as “a reconciling community” (pp. 163–45). Much of this book is about churches in the USA, but there are also many references to churches around the world. Thus, it is a valuable book for missionaries who are church planters in other countries as well as for church workers in the USA.","PeriodicalId":43205,"journal":{"name":"Missiology-An International Review","volume":"33 1","pages":"419 - 420"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90838072","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}