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Anthony G.Reddie and CarolTroupe, eds. Deconstructing Whiteness, Empire and Mission. London: SCM Press, 2023. 316 pp. International Review of Mission (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-31 Masiiwa Ragies Gunda
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I Am in Prison, Making Batik, and You Are Visiting Me International Review of Mission (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-31 Jeniffer F. P. Wowor, Merry K. Rungkat
This article contributes to the literature on interreligious engagement in prison from the perspective of Christian religious educational and missional ministry. It uses a case study conducted in the Class IIA Women's Correctional Institution in Semarang, Indonesia. In Indonesia, educational and missional ministry in prisons plays a vital role in supporting prison services. This ministry is understood
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A Future Agenda for Research on In‐Service Theological Training in Thailand and Beyond International Review of Mission (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-31 Ross Winchester, Kevin Hovey, Johannes M. Luetz
Contextualization has featured prominently in missiological research for decades, often alongside concepts such as syncretism and hybridity. Being typically conceived as attempts to transpose and communicate the gospel in words and ways that make sense to people in their local cultural settings, contextualization has been theorized extensively in missiological scholarship. Notwithstanding this longstanding
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Otherwise the Same International Review of Mission (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-31 Jason A. Coker
The growth of religious disaffiliation in the United States over the past three decades is historically unprecedented. This article argues that disaffiliation is a form of moral protest against lingering coloniality in American global North Christianities and appeals for missiologists to adopt a decolonial lens to more effectively critique harmful religious systems and investigate exterior forms of
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Ecumenical Missiology International Review of Mission (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-31 Mari‐Anna Auvinen
In this article I analyze the concept and contextuality of ecumenical missiology and its contemporary paradigms. Furthermore, I argue that the mission from the margins paradigm may construct a new method for undoing constantly increasing marginalization when understood from both its theological and philosophical points of view. This article celebrates togetherness in missio Dei as life‐giving mission
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Liberating the Colonized Body and Mind International Review of Mission (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-31 Kendrick Kemp
The interstitial space at the intersection of race and disability is primed for a decolonial analysis. By examining the colonial history of Indigenous people and Black chattel slaves in North America, this paper will show how the contemporary definitions of race and disability are inherited social constructs created for the colonizer's utility to control the bodies and minds of those occupying and
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Julia WattsBelser. Loving Our Own Bones: Disability Wisdom and the Spiritual Subversiveness of Knowing Ourselves Whole. Beacon Press, 2023. International Review of Mission (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-31 Isabella Novsima
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Never‐Ending Mission of God International Review of Mission (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-31 Hyuk Cho
The purpose of this article is to trace the evolution of the concept of missio Dei and examine the implications of each shift for the practice of mission. First, I explore the origin of missio Dei and its development from 1932 under Hitler's regime, and then I suggest Willingen's understanding of missio Dei in 1952 as an ecclesiocentric basis for mission. I then explore two more shifts in the understanding
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Bible Study as Postcolonial Witnessing International Review of Mission (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-31 Septemmy Eucharistia Lakawa
This article contextualizes Stef Craps’ concept of postcolonial witnessing and Shelly Rambo's concept of the afterlife of trauma to offer a model of Bible study as a postcolonial witnessing to the afterlife. The aim is to identify the contextual and multilayered dimensions of Bible study as a witnessing practice embedded in an Indonesian local Christian community's story of post‐religious communal
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Reparations and the Ministry of Planetary Peace International Review of Mission (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-31 Anthony Jermaine Ross‐Allam
This article explores the historical roots and unfolding legacies of reparations denial as a continuation of the spiritual and socioeconomic planetary war perpetuated through the transatlantic slave trade. An examination of the social production of an anti‐reparations norm against Afro‐Americans in the United States seeks to uncover underlying fears of national destabilization and their relations to
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MitriRaheb. Decolonizing Palestine: The Land, the People, the Bible. Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 2023. 184 pp. International Review of Mission (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-31 Philip Peacock
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Re‐membering Mission International Review of Mission (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-31 Masiiwa Ragies Gunda
This article grapples with the Anglican Communion's Five Marks of Mission, raising questions such as: Does the Communion need a mission? Does mission need the Communion? And do the Five Marks of Mission speak to the mission of God or mission of and in the Communion? Central to the article is the anxiety about the potential consequences of mission based on historic experiences of people from colonized
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Negotiating Popular Culture and Public Theology in the Indonesian Context International Review of Mission (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-31 Yahya Wijaya
This study relates theology to popular culture. As a platform for expressing the experiences of present‐day life, popular culture is theologically challenging. Scientific discourses on popular culture have revealed the significance of popular culture in society and its characteristics as a “translocal” cultural pattern. Using the approach of public theology, this study explores meeting points of theology
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A Decolonial Syncretism of Unity International Review of Mission (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-31 Michael Green
The term syncretism has had a metamorphic history in terms of its meaning, starting as positive with Plutarch, to being positive and negative during the Reformation, and then becoming neutral and negative after the Reformation to becoming decidedly negative from the 1920s onward. Despite advances in interpreting syncretism in more neutral or positive ways, the word's meaning and function remain imprecise
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Discipleship in Contemporary Mission International Review of Mission (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-31 Semuel Tulak
This article explores the concept and practice of discipleship in contemporary missions. Discipleship in mission reflection has emerged in recent years within the scope of the World Council of Churches and the Asian Christian Conference. The practice of intentional discipleship is carried out not only by churches or parachurches but also by communities of Jesus followers who adhere to non‐Christian
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Unsettling Environmentalism International Review of Mission (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-31 George Zachariah
Decolonial ecological imaginations entail a critical interrogation of mainstream environmentalism to unmask and unsettle it. These reflections expose how mainstream environmentalism legitimizes and perpetuates the colonization of the Earth and subaltern and Indigenous communities. Mainstream environmentalism is a colonial project to perpetuate the interests of settler colonialism and racial capitalism
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Singing Justice for Women and Land International Review of Mission (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-31 Ira D. Mangililo, Naw Phoo Plet, Dina E. Siahaan
Using an ecofeminist reading of Isaiah 5:1‐7, this article offers the Song of the Vineyard as a poem spoken from the perspective of the woman experiencing the social crisis in 8th‐century Judah. Using a powerful rhetoric to convey her message, the woman dared to speak out against the unjust circumstances that threatened the well‐being of her people and land. This paper also explores the role of the
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Troubling (Public) Theologies: Spaces, Bodies, Technologies. Edited by JioneHavea. Minneapolis: Fortress Academic, 2023. 238 pp. International Review of Mission (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-31 Stella Yessy Exlentya Pattipeilohy
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Missions International Review of Mission (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Thandi Soko-de Jong
This paper discusses the impact of colonization on Christian mission encounters and activities. It utilizes the decolonial epistemic framework to analyze the limitations of approaches that advocate “dialogue,” “revelation,” and “mutual growth.” The paper argues that focusing on these three approaches overlooks the asymmetrical power dynamics inherent in the history of Western Christian missions. Conversely
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Tracking the Decolonial in African Christian Theology International Review of Mission (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Teddy Chalwe Sakupapa
Drawing on the framework and pluriversalist vision of decoloniality, this article offers a conceptual mapping of theoretical debates and trends in recent discourse on the decolonization of theology in the Southern African context with a view to outlining key missiological implications of such debates. It posits a view of African decolonial theology as the foregrounding of local, indigenous, contextual
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Orthodox Theology's Hide-and-Seek with Postcolonialism International Review of Mission (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Athanasios N. Papathanasiou
According to the postcolonial approach, to understand today's world one must take into account modern colonialism (late 15th to mid-20th centuries) as well as all other forms of colonialism. Orthodox theologians have only recently and on a small scale begun to use postcolonial analysis. However, Orthodox theology can contribute to the discussion and shed more light on both the historical experience
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Decolonizing “Last Will Be First” and “Mission from the Margins” International Review of Mission (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Michael N. Jagessar
This contribution arose from the CWME's “decolonizing seminar” (5–9 June 2023), held in Lisbon on the theme “Making the last first.” Paying particular attention to mission archives and inherited missional-theological deposits, this essay makes a case for decolonizing mission as both habit and method to create systemic change. Decolonizing of mission as a process is for the whole of the oikos and ecumenical
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Freedom from Colonial Bondage International Review of Mission (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Anne Pattel-Gray
This article sets out the colonial legacies and realities which continue to dominate indigenous peoples’ lives, experience, communities, and capacities in Australia. It roots this colonial violence in the particular efforts of missionaries to convert and dominate indigenous peoples with a white colonial God. The Bible was a key weapon for this work, but it is also central to the decolonial work of
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Decolonizing Ourselves International Review of Mission (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Amélé Adamavi-Aho Ekué
This article outlines some key steps and motifs for developing a decolonial relational ethics that will be vital not just to the work of decolonization but also to the practice of the ecumenical movement if it is to both add its weight to the calls for decolonization and itself be decolonized. The author interrogates key dimensions of her own field of study in Christian ethics and engagement in the
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Decolonizing Ableist Pedagogy International Review of Mission (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Isabella Novsima
How can someone born without a privileged language and not educated in a privileged educational institution engage in decolonization? This is a very relevant question for most people who live in the context of the global South. This paper proposes a constructive imagination to decolonize ableist pedagogy through feminist disability analysis. I argue that colonial pedagogy is inherently ableist. This
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Apprehending HIV Stigma International Review of Mission (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Callie Long
The literary narrative Kiss of the Fur Queen, by Indigenous author Tomson Highway, calls for applying a decolonial framework that brings together different disciplinary systems to investigate responses to the stigma associated with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Approaching the narrative as testimony in which Highway foregrounds Indigenous knowledges, the text allows for a reframing of stigma
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Martyr or Invader? International Review of Mission (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Sangdo Choi
Martyr is the title given to someone who has died for the sake of their faith. However, the dead cannot speak about their own death. Judgments on behalf of the dead are inevitably done by the living, posthumously. In this sense, martyr-making is the politics of the death operated by the living. Taking this perspective of martyr-making, this paper seeks to reassess the martyr-making process in the Protestant
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The Role of Women in the Church in Botswana International Review of Mission (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Fidelis Nkomazana, Doreen Senzokuhle Setume
This article explores the role and contribution of women in the church with a specific focus on Reverend Boiketlo T. Ngwako of the Revelation Blessed Peace Church in Botswana (RBPC). The paper examines the contribution and experiences of Reverend Ngwako in a male-dominated church in Botswana. Data was collected through personal observations and by attending church services, listening to the testimonies
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Lesslie Newbigin's WCC Legacy International Review of Mission (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Shawn P. Behan
From 1958 to 1965, J. E. Lesslie Newbigin worked for the International Missionary Council and then the World Council of Churches, specifically leading the integration of the organizations. Newbigin had a profound impact on the importance and role of mission within the ecumenical movement during the early transition of decolonialism around the globe. This article will reflect upon the history, contribution
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The Kingdom of God and the Transformation of the World International Review of Mission (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Jerry Pillay
The article explores how pivotal the kingdom of God has been and still is to the identity of the ecumenical movement. The discussion of the biblical vision of the kingdom, which is coming and yet is also present, offers a motif which not only forms the life of the church and gives it hope but also forms the life of the oikoumene, giving hope to all of life. The ensuing discussion shows how, historically
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De-Religionizing the Missio Dei International Review of Mission (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-06-17 VethaKani Vedhanayagam
The message of the World Council of Churches' 11th Assembly invites the global Christian family “to act together” – a call that is based on Christ's love urging us (2 Cor. 5:14) toward reconciliation and unity. This is the missio Dei of the church of all ages. In considering the relevance of this message and call, this article endeavours to hermeneutically problematize (to “de-religionize”) them through
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A Call to Act Together International Review of Mission (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-06-17
This is the text of the message issued by the 11th Assembly of the World Council of Churches, meeting in Karlsruhe, Germany, from 31 August to 8 September 2022. In their message, delegates stated that all are called by Christ's love to repentance, reconciliation, and justice in the face of war, inequality, and sins against creation.
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Disciples and Pilgrims, Arusha, and Karlsruhe International Review of Mission (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-06-17 Kenneth R. Ross
A striking feature of the 11th Assembly of the World Council of Churches (WCC), held at Karlsruhe in Germany in 2022, was its lack of attention to the “Arusha Call to Discipleship” issued by the WCC World Mission Conference held in Tanzania four years earlier. Further ecumenical amnesia was evident in the Assembly's neglect of the centenary of the formation of the International Missionary Council (IMC)
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Dreaming a New Future International Review of Mission (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-06-17 Deenabandhu Manchala
“Mission from the Margins” is not about the victims but about confronting the forces of marginalization. It is about naming and dismantling cultures and structures that keep the world unjust by legitimizing abuse of human beings and creation. The Ecumenical Conversation “Dreaming a New Future” was an attempt to be enriched by the yearnings for justice, freedom, and life of those who are thus pushed
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A Call to Act Together International Review of Mission (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-06-17 Tiakala Jamir
This article offers a discussion of the Assembly Message, ‘A Call to Act Together', which unpacks, reframes, critiques and amplifies some key texts and concepts and explores their missiological relevance from an Indian and indigeneous perspective. The Assembly Message highlights love as the moving force for mission, but the article questions if the Ecumenical movement has the boldness and inclusiveness
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A Jamaican Response to the Call to Act Together International Review of Mission (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-06-17 Evie Vernon
This article is an exploration of following the way of Jesus regarding apologies and restitution for slavery. Three stories of good practice from the North American Jesuits, the United Reformed Church, and the Church of England are contrasted with stories of the abuse of children from First Nations people in Canada, poor families in Ireland, and the transportation of allegedly indigent children from
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Sexuality as an Integral Part of the Church's Being and Mission International Review of Mission (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-06-17 André S. Musskopf
The article draws on the experience of being part of the Reference Group on Human Sexuality and other debates on sexuality in the World Council of Churches to discuss the “Message of the 11th Assembly.” It makes explicit how issues of sexuality have been avoided and how they ground the understanding of theological perspectives and the church's being and mission. Finally, it presents alternatives to
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Caste or Christ? International Review of Mission (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-06-17 Santosh Kumar
This article offers empirical research using qualitative methodology to identify the presence of the caste system in the Seventh-day Adventist Church in South Asia. The findings are based on the interviews of ten participants aged 18 to 36 from at least four language groups: Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, and Malayalam. All the participants volunteered to participate in the study. Three among the ten did face-to-face
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Human Agency in the Missio Dei and the Problem of Discipleship International Review of Mission (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-06-17 James Butler
At the heart of this article is an inquiry into the relationship between human and divine agency in the doctrine of the missio Dei and a critique of the turn to the language of discipleship in looking to articulate this agency. Taking the World Council of Churches’ Commission of World Mission and Evangelism's two recent documents, Together towards Life: Mission and Evangelism in Changing Landscapes
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Charles F. Mackenzie, Popery, Guns, and Colonial Conflict International Review of Mission (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-06-17 Peter C. Houston
Charles F. Mackenzie was an Anglican archdeacon in the 19th century in the newly formed Diocese of Natal. He was consecrated a missionary bishop for Central Africa in Cape Town in 1861, which was a significant development for the Anglican Church at the time. Mackenzie struggled to read the social landscape, becoming embroiled in colonial conflict. Consequently, congregants, colleagues, and historians
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Adaptation in Modern Times International Review of Mission (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-06-17 Frans Dokman
Since the beginning of Christian mission, adaptation to local cultures (later called acculturation or inculturation) has been the main factor in mission failure or success. Placide Tempels is considered a pioneer of adaptation in modern times. He was a Flemish Franciscan missionary in Congo from 1933 to 1962 (with two breaks) and is well known for his adaptation to the Bantu worldview. Referring to
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David and Solomon International Review of Mission (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-12-08 Wilbert van Saane
While the ministry of cross-cultural, long-term missionaries was at the heart of the work and reflection of the International Missionary Council (IMC), the meetings of its successor, the Commission on World Mission and Evangelism, paid much less attention to the role of missionaries and even fell virtually silent on it for some decades. This article traces the shift in the perception of missionaries
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Unity that Liberates for an Embodied Mission International Review of Mission (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-12-08 Pablo Guillermo Oviedo
Taking into account the global and local challenges that we are going through, and from a theological-historical perspective, the working hypothesis in this article is that the ecumenical movement (as part of missio Dei) helped to produce a scenario in 20th-century Latin America that we could call “mission incarnated.” This is argued using two historical examples: the interaction and mutual enrichment
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The International Missionary Council and Mission Cooperation in Tanzania’s Southern Highlands, 1916–28 International Review of Mission (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-12-08 Kenneth R. Ross
Healthy mission cooperation between Scottish and German missions around the northern end of Lake Malawi was a feature of the period from 1891, when the German missions were establishing themselves in the Southern Highlands of Tanzania. This happy collaboration was shattered by the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, which led to the internment of the German missionaries and the cream of the local
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The International Missionary Council International Review of Mission (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-12-08 Brian Stanley
This article reflects on the 40-year history of the International Missionary Council (IMC) from its formation at Lake Mohonk in 1921 to its integration within the World Council of Churches at the WCC's 3rd Assembly in New Delhi in 1961. It does so by analyzing the explicit or implicit answers that were given within IMC circles to three fundamental theological questions. The first question is: What
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The French Response to the Actions of the International Missionary Council and the World Council of Churches Commission on World Mission and Evangelism International Review of Mission (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-12-08 Jean-François Zorn, Claire Sixt-Gateuille
Since 1822, French Protestantism has been engaged in world mission through the Paris Evangelical Missionary Society (SMEP). In 1971, this mission society was succeeded by two organizations – the Community of Churches in Mission (CEVAA) and the French Evangelical Department of Apostolic Action (DEFAP), created by the French Lutheran and Reformed Churches. French delegates of SMEP or DEFAP were present
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Pope Francis’ Theology of Mission International Review of Mission (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-12-08 William P. Gregory
Since his election in 2013, Pope Francis has embarked upon a significant program of teaching, exhortation, and internal church critique aimed at stimulating the missionary reform of the Catholic Church. This article provides an overview of his contributions in this area with attention to his efforts to promote the greater involvement of all the baptized in mission, a deeper spirituality of mission
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Mission and Unity International Review of Mission (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-05-05 Jean-Daniel Plüss
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
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Transformation, Mission, Reconciliation, and Unity International Review of Mission (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-05-05 Mutale M. Kaunda
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
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Missionary Cooperation as a Common Witness of Christian Hope and Fraternity International Review of Mission (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-05-05 Sandra Mazzolini
Since the Second Vatican Council to our own day, the awareness of the correlation between ecclesial unity and mission has increased within the Roman Catholic tradition and beyond. At the same time, our contemporaneity has challenged Christian traditions to develop the understanding of their evangelizing mission. In this framework, the implications of the link between missionary cooperation and Christian
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Strengthening Unity for the Missional Church International Review of Mission (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-05-05 Peirong Lin
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
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Spirituality of Moderation International Review of Mission (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-05-05 Henriette T. Hutabarat Lebang
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 spiritualitas keugaharian, or the “spirituality of moderation.” Only the
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The Challenge for Christian Unity and Reconciliation Today from a Decolonial Perspective International Review of Mission (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-05-05 Raimundo C. Barreto Jr
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
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Mission and Unity International Review of Mission (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-05-05 Lauri Emilio Wirth
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
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Christ’s Love Moves the World to Reconciliation and Unity International Review of Mission (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-05-05 Samuel George
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
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Being with Jesus and Being Sent Out International Review of Mission (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-05-05 Lawrence Iwuamadi
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
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Mission Education in Burma, 1600–1948 International Review of Mission (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-05-05 Pum Za Mang
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
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The Influence of John Dewey’s Pragmatism on the Church Growth Movement International Review of Mission (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-05-05 R. Vivian Pietsch
Missionary strategies impact the attainment of goals and growth. The fundamental concern for Christian missions ought to be how knowledge is gained and utilized in evangelism and church growth. Christian missions must determine appropriate means to achieve the telos of fulfilling the Great Commission, making disciples, and teaching them to obey all of Christ’s commands. Some missiologists and theologians