• Noteworthy
  
  

   

  

  Died. David B. Barrett, 83, mission research pioneer, professor, former missionary, author, and editor, August 4, 2011, in Richmond, Virginia. Barrett was research professor of missiometrics at Regent University, Virginia Beach, Virginia; honorary research adviser for the United Bible Societies; and a contributing editor of the IBMR.  [Read more as HTML or PDF]

• Religions and the Common Good
  
  

  Jonathan J. Bonk

  

  For many, religion is the sine qua non of personal identity, integral to the fabric of all levels of social constructs: family, clan, tribe, ethnic group, and nation. For a majority of this planet's human inhabitants, without religion there would be neither me nor us.  [Read more as HTML or PDF]

• Interreligious Dialogue: Conversations That Enable Christian Witness

  Terry C. Muck

  

  When people speak of "interreligious dialogue," it is difficult to know with any precision what they are referring to. As Harold Netland has noted, "There is no general agreement today on just what is meant by dialogue"; everyone seems to come to the dialogue table with a different set of theological or buddhalogical or vedic assumptions.  [Read more as HTML or PDF]

• Christian Witness in a Multi-Religious World: Recommendations for Conduct
  

   

  

  Jointly issued by the World Council of Churches, Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, and World Evangelical Alliance, this document represents a broad consensus on appropriate missionary conduct according to “gospel principles” when sharing the Christian faith.  [Read more as HTML or PDF]

• Introduction to the Accra Charter of Religious Freedom and Citizenship

  Lamin Sanneh

  

  In many countries religious institutions have often been the only viable structures left in the wake of the collapse of state institutions, including the breakdown of the organs of law and order. Given their endurance and their increasing influence, religious institutions represent an important source of hope in a time of great uncertainty.  [Read more as HTML or PDF]

• Accra Charter of Religious Freedom and Citizenship
  
  

   

  

  We acknowledge that we are created to live in community, and as such are endowed with rights and responsibilities so that we may enter into a state of society with the purpose of perpetuating life and the flourishing requisite to it. By virtue of the divine sovereignty we live our lives as members of the religious community, while as citizens we conduct our affairs as subjects of the state.  [Read more as HTML or PDF]

• Ferment at the Margins: Philippine Ecclesiology Under Stress
  

  Paul D. Matheny

  

  Dramatic changes are afoot in the Philippines. A wide-ranging fragmentation is occurring, issuing in an ecclesial pluralism among people who desire unity. Theologies are emerging and fading.  [Read more as HTML or PDF]

• My Pilgrimage in Mission
  
  

  Bertha Beachy

  

  As a nineteen-year-old, I had no idea what this step would mean for me, but I knew God would reveal his purpose along the way. Somehow I felt this call to mission would connect with what I had sensed in fifth grade—that someday I would be a teacher.  [Read more as HTML or PDF]

• The Legacy of Harvie M. Conn
  
  

  Mark R. Gornik

  

  God's future, the prophet Isaiah announced, is to be found in the city, where all of life finds its peace in God and God's purposes for the renewal of creation. Harvie Maitland Conn (1933–99) was a missionary to Korea, evangelist, mission theologian, pastor and scholar, and, most significantly, an urban visionary in prophetic form.  [Read more as HTML or PDF]

• The Legacy of James Stephen
  
  

  Wilbert R. Shenk

  

  The name James Stephen (1789–1859) is not one associated with the history of missions. Indeed, Stephen is a largely forgotten figure. But he was the indispensable civil servant who labored largely out of public view throughout his career yet exerted considerable influence on policy formation and administration of the British colonial empire during a crucial period.  [Read more as HTML or PDF]

• Political Spiritualities: The Pentecostal Revolution in Nigeria (Book reviews)

  By Ruth Marshall

  

  The focus of the study is aptly captured by the introduction, in which Marshall notes that the “Born-Again” movement, as she refers to the revival, “has as its principal aim a project of individual and collective renewal and regeneration through a process of conversion based on the idiom of new birth”  [Read more as HTML or PDF]

• Index—Volume 35
  
  

   

  

  Index of Volume 35 of the IBMR listing articles, contributors, books reviewed, and reviewers of books.  [Read more as HTML or PDF]

Doctoral Dissertations

OMSC's free online database, compiled in cooperation with Yale Divinity School Library, lists nearly 6,200 doctoral dissertations in English on mission and world Christianity. Search by author, title, subject, keyword, and institution at www.internationalbulletin.org/resources.