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[57] Human Stories and the Mission of God Stories are integral to human identity, providing one with a sense of location vis-à-vis everything and everyone else. It is our participation in these stories that makes us "we" and the rest "they." Personal and communal identity means participating in the selective common memory of a uniquely delimited group. [59] Thinking Missiologically About the History of
Mission SUBSCRIBERS: READ MORE Is there a missiological approach to the history of mission? Prompting this question is the fact that the history of mission is no longer the special preserve of those who support and participate in missionary activities. Now a growing legion of scholars is being drawn to the study of mission history, among whom we find specialists in politics and economics, Marxists, feminists, historical anthropologists and other kinds of social historians, and Americanists as well as researchers focused on non-Western societies, not to mention religious historians of every stripe who make it their business to study the world’s burgeoning collection of faith communities and traditions. [66] Czarist Missionary Contact with Central Asia:
Models of Contextualization? SUBSCRIBERS: READ MORE Years ago I asked field-workers from the central Asian republics of the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics why there was not greater cooperation with the Russian Orthodox Church in attempts to establish indigenous churches among the Muslim peoples of these regions. Their immediate reply was that the Orthodox were too heavily enmeshed with czarist imperial policies. Orthodox involvement would be too great a liability. [73] In the Shadow of the Missionary Captain: Captain
James Wilson and the LMS Mission to the Pacific SUBSCRIBERS: READ MORE In promoting its activities, the London Missionary Society (LMS) openly acknowledged the importance of the late eighteenth-century enthusiasm for the adventures of Captains Cook, Bligh, and Wallis. What has received less attention is the extent to which the mission emulated these great navigators. The influence was so pervasive in the planning and execution of their first mission, to the Pacific, that Captain James Wilson actually dominated decision making, even on issues of doctrine and church government. [77] Maori and Mission Sisters in New Zealand Since
1865: Changing Approaches SUBSCRIBERS: READ MORE Between 1838, when Bishop Pompallier and the first Catholic missionaries journeyed to New Zealand (hereafter NZ), and February 1865, when the first Mission Sisters arrived, significant changes in the country’s economic, political, and social landscape had occurred. These changes affected the mission of the Catholic Church, and therefore the work of the first Mission Sisters. Initially, Pompallier had focused attention on Maori, who outnumbered the few Europeans then resident in the country. [82] World’s Religions After September 11: A Global
Congress. Montreal, Quebec, September 11–15, 2006 SUBSCRIBERS: READ MORE "World’s Religions After September 11: A Global Congress," organized by Professor Arvind Sharma and his colleagues at McGill University, Montreal, began on the fifth anniversary of the terrorist bombings of the New York City Trade Towers and the Pentagon in 2001. An international group of participants—including Hindu, Jain, Muslim, Jewish, Islamic, and Christian scholars, religious leaders, and laypersons—addressed the topic of religious change, especially the influence of the terrorist attacks on societies and their understanding of religion. [84] My Pilgrimage in Mission SUBSCRIBERS: READ MORE I was born on January 17, 1930, in Wittges, a German village seventeen kilometers east of Fulda, as the third of four sons. My father, Karl, was a worker repairing streets. He died in 1961, and my mother, Mary, died in 1953. I received my primary school training at Elters (1936–43). When I was a boy about twelve years of age, a Benedictine father of the abbey at St. Ottilien tried to recruit me for their junior seminary. Since I was so young, however, my parents failed to give their agreement. [88] The Legacy of Melvill Horne SUBSCRIBERS: READ MORE The legacy of Melvill Horne (1762–1841), a contemporary of William Carey (1761–1834), lies principally in his role as a missionary advocate and publicist who helped to foster this renewed phase of overseas Christian expansion in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Horne’s Letters on Missions; Addressed to the Protestant Ministers of the British Churches, published in 1794, stimulated extensive debate on the nature and purpose of overseas missions and provided the main catalyst for the formation of the Missionary Society (later renamed the London Missionary Society). [90] Noteworthy [95] The Legacy of Yohanna Gowon SUBSCRIBERS: READ MORE Pa Yohanna Gowon (ca. 1880–1973) was one of the earliest Ngas converts to Christianity. Christian contact with the Ngas people (plural Ngasmwa) began in 1907, when missionaries belonging to the Cambridge University Mission Party (CUMP), an affiliate of the Church Missionary Society (CMS), arrived on a survey trip at Kabwir, one of the leading Ngas cities. Kabwir is in central Nigeria, in the Kanke local government area of the Plateau State. [99] Book Reviews SUBSCRIBERS: READ THE BOOK REVIEWS [110] Dissertation Notices SUBSCRIBERS: READ THE NOTICES [112] Book Notes SUBSCRIBERS: READ THE BOOK NOTES
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