{"title":"Mission Education in Burma, 1600–1948","authors":"Pum Za Mang","doi":"10.1111/irom.12406","DOIUrl":"10.1111/irom.12406","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Scholars, historians, and researchers who are keenly interested in Burmese studies have not paid enough attention to the considerable roles Christian missionaries played in the history of precolonial and colonial Burma. This article explores the neglected and hidden history of the Western missionaries who introduced modern education to Burma and who educated some of the best minds of the Burmese at that time. Despite missionaries being underrated and criticized by some Burman nationalists and politicians, they made a remarkable contribution to education in Burmese history. Education was and has always been crowned in Christianity, and advancing education remains indispensable to Christian mission in Burma and elsewhere. Public knowledge of this constructive story in history would be helpful for Buddhist–Christian relations.</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.12406","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49614925","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":"Strengthening Unity for the Missional Church","authors":"Peirong Lin","doi":"10.1111/irom.12402","DOIUrl":"10.1111/irom.12402","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The church, sent by the missional God, participates in God’s mission through both its deeds and its being. The church’s witness is directly related to the unity of its believers. Racism disrupts unity in the church and can be countered only through intentional effort. This paper discusses how theological education can help to counter racism in the church. By “theological education” I refer to learning for all Christians, centred on individual and community formation. The cultivation of belonging is described as key to this formation, based on the fact that humans are created to live our lives together. Two relevant aspects of belonging are further described: our limited situational understanding as creatures and the community we foster together. The acceptance of our limited situational understanding takes a non-foundationalist view to theology and realizes the need to broaden one’s theological syllabus. As a community, it is important that relationality is fostered. Effort should be taken to recognize one’s personal bias and also to understand the other on their own terms.</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.12402","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45405037","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":"Christ’s Love Moves the World to Reconciliation and Unity","authors":"Samuel George","doi":"10.1111/irom.12405","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/irom.12405","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Where there is Christ’s love, there ought to be reconciliation and unity. The absence of tangible reconciliation and concrete unity is the absence of Christ’s love itself. Disability theology exposes that traditionally, discussions on reconciliation and unity have seldom considered the perspectives of people with disabilities. Therefore, any discussion on reconciliation and unity is incomplete without the inclusion of perspectives of these people.</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.12405","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138141382","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 Christian Unity","authors":"Dimitrios Keramidas","doi":"10.1111/irom.12383","DOIUrl":"10.1111/irom.12383","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Orthodox missiology became interested in the issue of Christian unity in the 1960s, as Orthodoxy came to be involved more actively in the ecumenical movement, with the support of a new generation of theologians (such as Anastasios Yannoulatos, Nikos Nissiotis, Alexander Schmemann, and Ion Bria) who shared the deep concern of envisaging the universal dimension of evangelism. Drawing from new missionary tendencies (the <i>missio Dei</i>) and against the background of the Orthodox tradition – especially the Johannine literature, the eucharist, and trinitarian theology – the Orthodox stressed that the proclamation of the gospel concerns equally the non-Christians, as a call to communion with God, and the non-Orthodox, as a call to the consolidation of this communion primarily among Christians. In this case, the mission becomes a living witness of the church to the world, with the purpose to bring the world into unity with God. Thanks to this perception, “unity as mission” has entered into the very centre of ecclesial action. These ideas can also be found in official Orthodox statements, from the 1990s to the Holy and Great Council of 2016, which largely embraced these new demands, although they also point out the limits of this “common Christian witness” and the danger of proselytism. In any case, common Christian witness seems to belong to the future of the ecumenical and global missionary movement.</p>","PeriodicalId":54038,"journal":{"name":"International Review of Mission","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43221587","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":"Nordic Missiological Discourses following Together towards Life and the Arusha World Mission Conference","authors":"Beate Fagerli","doi":"10.1111/irom.12397","DOIUrl":"10.1111/irom.12397","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The article gives an overview of recent discussions on international ecumenical missiology in a Nordic, and particularly Norwegian, context. A short background on historical disagreements between churches and mission agents gives the backdrop for more recent theological discussions following the Edinburgh 2010 anniversary. Two WCC events in particular have contributed to the discussions. First, the publishing of the Commission on World Mission and Evangelism's <i>Together Towards Life: Mission and Evangelism in Changing Landscapes</i> has fuelled the discussions with new insights. A pneumatological entry point into missiology prompted churches and mission agents to renew their talks about the main reasons for engaging in mission. A central part of these discussions has been the question of what “mission from the margins” may mean. Second, the Arusha World Mission Conference gave an opportunity for a broad ecumenical encounter, also from within the Nordic region. The many stories and witnesses from the margins that were presented in Arusha gave new insights into a Norwegian (and partly Nordic) understanding of who the marginalized are, also within a Nordic context. The article concludes that the Arusha conference contributed to understanding storytelling as crucial to the meaning of the term “mission from the margins.”</p>","PeriodicalId":54038,"journal":{"name":"International Review of Mission","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42271956","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":"Daryl Ireland. John Song: Modern Chinese Christianity and the Making of a New Man. Waco: Baylor University Press, 2020. 268 pages.","authors":"Andrew T. Kaiser","doi":"10.1111/irom.12390","DOIUrl":"10.1111/irom.12390","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54038,"journal":{"name":"International Review of Mission","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43028796","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":"Pope Francis, with William P. Gregory. Go Forth: Toward a Community of Missionary Disciples. American Society of Missiology Series No. 58. Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 2019. 196 pages.","authors":"Daniel Scott","doi":"10.1111/irom.12391","DOIUrl":"10.1111/irom.12391","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54038,"journal":{"name":"International Review of Mission","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"62718617","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":"Leanne M. Dzubinski and Anneke H. Stasson. Women in the Mission of the Church: Their Opportunities and Obstacles throughout Christian History. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2021. 256 pages.","authors":"Chelsea C. Hurlburt","doi":"10.1111/irom.12393","DOIUrl":"10.1111/irom.12393","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54038,"journal":{"name":"International Review of Mission","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48397059","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":"Church and Cultures in the Catholic Missionary Renewal of the Early 20th Century","authors":"Roberto Marinaccio","doi":"10.1111/irom.12387","DOIUrl":"10.1111/irom.12387","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article investigates the relationship between the church and indigenous cultures in the field of missionary renewal in the early 20th century, focusing on three influential Catholic figures: Celso Costantini, Paolo Manna, and Vittorino Vanzin. In analyzing their thought and writings, the research highlights the transformation of the linguistic and conceptual tools in missiology regarding the topic in question. This transformation is articulated in three key processes: the shift from “missions” to “local churches,” “indigenization,” and the “evangelization of cultures.”</p>","PeriodicalId":54038,"journal":{"name":"International Review of Mission","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48557755","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":"A Four-in-One Book Review","authors":"Joshua Robert Barron","doi":"10.1111/irom.12394","DOIUrl":"10.1111/irom.12394","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54038,"journal":{"name":"International Review of Mission","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46652891","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}