{"title":"Book review: Matt Rhodes with a foreword by Mark Dever, No Shortcut to Success: A Manifesto for Modern Missions","authors":"Craig Ott","doi":"10.1177/00918296231173542","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00918296231173542","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43205,"journal":{"name":"Missiology-An International Review","volume":"208 1","pages":"285 - 286"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72654747","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: Gina A. Zurlo, Global Christianity: A Guide to the World’s Largest Religion from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe","authors":"Cindy M. Wu","doi":"10.1177/00918296231173540","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00918296231173540","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43205,"journal":{"name":"Missiology-An International Review","volume":"125 1","pages":"282 - 283"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78948025","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: Jackson Wu, Reading Romans with Eastern Eyes: Honor and Shame in Paul’s Message and Mission","authors":"Chris Flanders","doi":"10.1177/00918296231173543","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00918296231173543","url":null,"abstract":"developed a mission theology. They published articles. They were effective organizers, and the list goes on. But something they did not do was to read their own reports to public assemblies of mission supporters. They decorously handed the reports to a man, who read them to the assemblies for them. Also, the articles they published in mission periodicals were unsigned. Two decades later, on February 6, 1841, Catherine Malvesin and Pastor Antoine Vermeil each wrote a letter to the other proposing the formation of a Protestant order of deaconesses. Their letters crossed in the mail. More letters followed, but when the time came to devise the charter and rules for what became the Deaconesses of Reuilly, Malvesin reserved that prerogative for herself. She both wrote them in her own name and became the order’s first prioress. Times and sensibilities shifted, and women contributed to reviving the Réveil. Perceptive, deeply informed, well organized, and cogently expressed, Birthing Revival is a major contribution to both mission history and women’s studies. I recommend it highly.","PeriodicalId":43205,"journal":{"name":"Missiology-An International Review","volume":"6 1","pages":"288 - 289"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74666301","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: Michèle Miller Sigg, Birthing Revival: Women and Mission in Nineteenth-Century France","authors":"D. Baker","doi":"10.1177/00918296231173550","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00918296231173550","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43205,"journal":{"name":"Missiology-An International Review","volume":"2014 1","pages":"287 - 288"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73300149","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: Michael Niebauer, Virtuous Persuasion: A Theology of Christian Mission","authors":"M. Moore","doi":"10.1177/00918296231173551","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00918296231173551","url":null,"abstract":"reading, but rather suggests that all monocultural readings will inevitably be limited and that modern interpreters are helped by gleaning insights from multiple cultural perspectives on biblical texts such as Romans. Wu makes several important claims. Paul’s main concern is not the individual standing before God (individualism) but communities (Paul’s strong collectivism implied by the hortatory sections of chapters 12–16) and their part in salvation history. In particular, Wu draws attention to the underappreciated and profoundly misunderstood themes of honor, shame, and face, noting that the term guilt does not even occur in the book. This reading highlights a profoundly relational purpose in the writing of Romans and how Paul’s hamartiology and soteriology contain fundamental honor– shame dimensions often missed by western interpreters. Most provocatively, Wu suggests Paul’s depiction of Jesus in Romans 5–8 is consistent with the notion of an obedient “filial” son, who restores God’s honor and thus enables the entire human family to participate in the honor (glory) of God and God’s kingdom. Wu engages in complex intercultural theological work, comparing the theological anthropology of Paul in Romans with that of Confucius. Though this helpful resource will not substitute for more exegetically rigorous commentaries on Romans, it can aid readers to glean new insights and provide a roadmap for thinking about Romans (and Scripture more broadly) in light of important themes salient to much of the global church. This book won Christianity Today’s 2020 Book of the Year Award of Merit in Biblical Studies.","PeriodicalId":43205,"journal":{"name":"Missiology-An International Review","volume":"19 1","pages":"289 - 290"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90782152","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: Peter Feldmeier, Experiments in Buddhist-Christian Encounter","authors":"Paul Hertig","doi":"10.1177/00918296231173541","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00918296231173541","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43205,"journal":{"name":"Missiology-An International Review","volume":"1 1","pages":"283 - 284"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82990546","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: R. Daniel Shaw, Singing Samo Songs: From Shaman to Pastor: An Ethnohistorical Approach to Socio-Religious Expressions among the Samo of Papua New Guinea","authors":"D. Whiteman","doi":"10.1177/00918296231173544","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00918296231173544","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43205,"journal":{"name":"Missiology-An International Review","volume":"56 1","pages":"286 - 287"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89064962","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":"Jesus of the gaps: The evangelistic use of biblical reflexes in the Qur’an","authors":"Adam Dodds, Richard Shumack","doi":"10.1177/00918296231169744","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00918296231169744","url":null,"abstract":"Does it help to start with the Jesus of the Qur’an when doing Muslim evangelism? This missiological approach has been, and continues to be, prevalent. In this article we examine the theological legitimacy of appealing to biblical reflexes in the Qur’an for evangelism. Is such an approach biblically legitimate and practically helpful? We first argue, from Acts 17, that the Bible tacitly endorses the evangelistic tactic of making appeals to truth statements in alien religious texts to connect with hearers’ theological imaginations. In doing so, we propose an evangelistic alien text appeal principle. Second, we adopt Qur’an 4:171 as a case study, arguing that some Christological reflexes hinder, and others help, Muslims imagine the biblical Jesus. We conclude that only those Qur’anic Christological reflexes that are imprecise—Jesus of the gaps—are biblically legitimate and helpful for evangelism.","PeriodicalId":43205,"journal":{"name":"Missiology-An International Review","volume":"4 1","pages":"223 - 237"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83349854","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":"Editor’s Notes","authors":"Leanne M. Dzubinski","doi":"10.1177/00918296231151510","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00918296231151510","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43205,"journal":{"name":"Missiology-An International Review","volume":"25 1","pages":"101 - 102"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78049807","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":"Towards a missiology of marriage and sexuality: A review of Timothy Tennent’s theology of the body","authors":"R. Priest","doi":"10.1177/00918296231163850","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00918296231163850","url":null,"abstract":"Missiologists have written little in response to many of our modern world’s newly emergent and influential sexual lifeways, ideologies, surrogacy practices, and family formations. The 2020 book written by missiologist Timothy Tennent For the Body: Recovering a Theology of Gender, Sexuality, and the Human Body represents an exception. Thus, it merits sustained attention from other missiologists wishing to consider such realities. This article reviews Tennent’s exposition of a “theology of the body,” focusing on his arguments regarding marriage and celibacy as missional icons of the gospel, and explores the relevance of the book’s topic for missiology. It commends Tennent for addressing an important and timely topic that ought to be addressed by missiologists. It suggests that Tennent might have more fully achieved his laudable goal of framing a suitable argument for the public square had he interacted more with anthropology, not just theology, and had he explicitly interacted with the writings of professional missiologists on fundamental missiological principles. The article proposes that missiology, despite its relative silence till now, has discipline-specific strengths for engaging contemporary challenges related to sex and marriage and Christian witness. It encourages missiologists to direct our future missiological conversations, research, writing, and curricular development accordingly.","PeriodicalId":43205,"journal":{"name":"Missiology-An International Review","volume":"52 1","pages":"238 - 253"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75287317","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}