{"title":"João B. Chaves. Migrational Religion: Context and Creativity in the Latinx Diaspora. Waco: Baylor University Press, 2021. 213 pages.","authors":"Matheus Reis","doi":"10.1111/irom.12411","DOIUrl":"10.1111/irom.12411","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54038,"journal":{"name":"International Review of Mission","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/irom.12411","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47191365","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Being with Jesus and Being Sent Out","authors":"Lawrence Iwuamadi","doi":"10.1111/irom.12413","DOIUrl":"10.1111/irom.12413","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Mark 3:13-19 is key to understanding discipleship in the Gospel of Mark. Discipleship as an important theme in the gospel plays out in how Jesus constituted the group that would become his closest companions. The pericope presents the discipleship mandate as the reason for the call of the twelve. Focusing specifically on Mark 3:13-15, which we consider the heart of the narrative, we can show that Jesus intended unity and mission to be two essential components of the identity and vocation of his followers. He called the twelve “to be with him” (unity) and “to be sent out” (mission). These two are therefore mutually constitutive and the <i>raison d’être</i> of the Jesus community. The communion (<i>koinonia</i>) resulting from being with Jesus is Christian witness, and there could be no authentic mission (<i>martyria</i>) without unity. In their mission, the twelve will preach and have authority to cast out demons, thus capturing the aspect of <i>diakonia</i> that must accompany Christian proclamation and witness.</p>","PeriodicalId":54038,"journal":{"name":"International Review of Mission","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/irom.12413","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49226197","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mission and Unity","authors":"Jean-Daniel Plüss","doi":"10.1111/irom.12399","DOIUrl":"10.1111/irom.12399","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Early Pentecostals’ desire for unity resulted from their appreciation of the work of the Holy Spirit across the different churches and their belief that global mission was at the heart of their calling. In contrast, the World Council of Churches has produced documents through the Faith and Order Commission that illustrate the development of what the council means by unity and how the role of the Holy Spirit in the church can be understood. Bringing these different strands of convictions into dialogue can benefit the missional and ecumenical activities of the different churches in the body of Christ. The article’s conclusion provides examples that respond to the need for unity for the sake of the church answering to the mission of God.</p>","PeriodicalId":54038,"journal":{"name":"International Review of Mission","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/irom.12399","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43133960","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Transformation, Mission, Reconciliation, and Unity","authors":"Mutale M. Kaunda","doi":"10.1111/irom.12400","DOIUrl":"10.1111/irom.12400","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article argues that for Christ’s love to be reflected in the Christian call to mission, it should be seen from the perspective of the cross: self-emptying and selfless love that seeks the good of the other just as the self. It argues that mission is critical for transformation, unity, and reconciliation. There cannot be full realization of unity and of reconciliation without the cross. Mission starts from within before it can reach out to others if it is to bring about human dignity and transformation. Christian mission has been on a pilgrimage of love, justice, peace, and unity for decades. The self-emptying and a selfless love of the cross is a love that sees the other through the self and brings humanity close to reconciliation, love, and unity. Because the church has been searching for reconciliation and unity for many decades, history shows that there cannot be reconciliation – at least for Christianity – without reference to the cross. At the cross, the love of Christ, the love of God, was shared. This was a love that saw need in the other and was willing to reach from deep within the self out and share this love and bring reconciliation and unity to humanity. The cross symbolizes a love so deep it was willing to die so that the other could have life in full. It was a love that saw the other as equally important and needed to be reconciled.</p>","PeriodicalId":54038,"journal":{"name":"International Review of Mission","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/irom.12400","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47044046","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Spirituality of Moderation","authors":"Henriette T. Hutabarat Lebang","doi":"10.1111/irom.12414","DOIUrl":"10.1111/irom.12414","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The churches in Indonesia have been struggling to address the problems of poverty, injustice, radicalism, and ecological destruction. They believe that these matters are interlinked with and rooted in human greed, which threatens the unity of the nation. It is a problem of spirituality. The churches are committed to promoting <i>spiritualitas keugaharian</i>, or the “spirituality of moderation.” Only the love of Christ can move and change the hearts of people: from self-centredness to care for others; from the tendency to accumulate power and wealth to restraint and sharing of resources; from hatred to reconciliation; from disintegration to unity for justice and peace for all creation.</p>","PeriodicalId":54038,"journal":{"name":"International Review of Mission","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/irom.12414","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42127531","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Unity and Mission","authors":"Susan Durber","doi":"10.1111/irom.12408","DOIUrl":"10.1111/irom.12408","url":null,"abstract":"<p>It is often acknowledged within the ecumenical movement that unity and mission belong together, and joint working between, for example, the Faith and Order Commission and the Commission on World Mission and Evangelism is readily encouraged and even deepened. However, something in the strong histories and cultures of these two movements (and others like them) seems to work against the dismantling of a false binary that might be desired. While mission and unity seem incontrovertibly “one” in the New Testament, they seem to have been separated by the formal ecumenical movement in ways that demand challenge and radical change. It is time to do something more than “work together.”</p>","PeriodicalId":54038,"journal":{"name":"International Review of Mission","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/irom.12408","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45245625","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Arthur Lin. The History of Christian Missions in Guangxi, China. Studies in Chinese Christianity. Eugene: Pickwick, 2020. 188 pages.","authors":"Susangeline Patrick","doi":"10.1111/irom.12410","DOIUrl":"10.1111/irom.12410","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54038,"journal":{"name":"International Review of Mission","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/irom.12410","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45403138","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mission and Unity","authors":"Lauri Emilio Wirth","doi":"10.1111/irom.12404","DOIUrl":"10.1111/irom.12404","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article discusses the historical conditions of the insertion of Christianity in Latin America. It points to the links between a colonizing project and Christian missions on that continent. The Christianity that settled here from the 16th century onward was marked by conflicts and controversies. Oppression and war against native populations were often justified as a necessary condition for evangelization. The political and theological disputes over the Protestant Reformation in Europe had repercussions on the continent as one more factor to intensify the conflict. Thus, one of the main structuring axes of the first notion of Christian unity on the continent was the exclusion of the other. However, in this context a prophetic Christianity also emerged out of compassion for the victims of the colonizing process. This article highlights central aspects of this Christianity of liberation that today still challenge missionary practices, but not only in Latin America. An evangelizing methodology conceived out of the living conditions of victims of oppressive systems questions even the missionary strategies of Protestant denominations active on the continent from the 19th century onwards, especially with regard to their civilizing ideal of local cultures. A careful and judicious look at the past of Christianization in Latin America can offer motivation for practices of ecumenical coexistence between different faiths, challenged by the pain of today's world and in solidarity with the victims of our consumer society.</p>","PeriodicalId":54038,"journal":{"name":"International Review of Mission","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/irom.12404","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48822455","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Challenge for Christian Unity and Reconciliation Today from a Decolonial Perspective","authors":"Raimundo C. Barreto Jr","doi":"10.1111/irom.12403","DOIUrl":"10.1111/irom.12403","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article draws on decolonial resources to interrogate the meaning and possibility of unity and reconciliation from a Christian perspective in a postcolonial world. Highlighting the need to remap modern ecumenism, the article draws on Pope Francis' dreams of a new relationship of the church with the peoples of the Amazon to explore the meaning of Christian unity and reconciliation discourse vis-à-vis socio-economic, racial, cultural, and epistemic divides.</p>","PeriodicalId":54038,"journal":{"name":"International Review of Mission","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/irom.12403","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48059517","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}