• Cross-Cultural Friendship in the Creation of Twentieth-Century World Christianity

  Dana L. Robert

  

  One of the memorable moments during the World Missionary Conference at Edinburgh in 1910 was the heartfelt cry of V. S. Azariah, a young, newly ordained Anglican from South India. Azariah identified racism and missionary paternalism as chief barriers to Christian life. Without all races working together, the full glory of Christ. . .  [Read more as HTML or PDF]

• Has the Lausanne Movement Moved?
  
  

  Jonathan J. Bonk

  

  Front and foremost in this issue is the Cape Town Commitment, twenty-two pages long. It offers tangible evidence of the hard work of Christopher J. H. Wright and his team of evangelical theologians from every continent who were charged with distilling the essence and emphases of the Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization.  [Read more as HTML or PDF]

• The Cape Town Commitment: A Confession of Faith and a Call to Action

   

  

  The IBMR here presents the full text of the Cape Town Commitment: A Confession of Faith and a Call to Action, issued by the Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization, October 16–25, 2010, held in Cape Town, South Africa. Crafted over the course of three years by engaged evangelical theologians from all continents. . .  [Read more as HTML or PDF]

• The History of the Lausanne Movement, 1974–2010
  
  

  Robert A. Hunt

  

  This article briefly explores the way in which an evangelical response to the emerging ecumenical movement of the 1960s became the locus for conflicting understandings of evangelism and evangelistic priorities from the 1970s to the present day—a period when evangelicalism realized its own cultural, spiritual, and. . .  [Read more as HTML or PDF]

• The Future of the Lausanne Movement
  
  

  C. René Padilla

  

  The concrete results that a conference such as Lausanne III produces afterward in the life and mission of the church are the acid test of the conference's value. The present evaluation of the conference in South Africa can therefore be regarded as only a very preliminary attempt to weigh its significance.  [Read more as HTML or PDF]

• From the Lausanne Covenant to the Cape Town Commitment: A Theological Assessment

  Robert J. Schreiter

  

  The Lausanne movement has been one of the most important voices in Christian mission over the past three and a half decades. Given its importance, it would be worthwhile to trace how its theology has developed through the course of its three international congresses. Can changes be signaled or trends detected?  [Read more as HTML or PDF]

• Theological Education in the Changing Context of World Christianity—an Unfinished Agenda

  Dietrich Werner

  

  The year 2010 provided an occasion to measure missionary accomplishments within the field of theological education against the dreams and aspirations enunciated during the original World Missionary Conference, and to assess the shape of the task that still lies before us.  [Read more as HTML or PDF]

• Book Review of “Mission in the Spirit: Towards a Pentecostal/ Charismatic Missiology”

  By Julie C. Ma and Wonsuk Ma

  

  While Pentecostals/ Charismatics are well known for aggressive and numerically successful missions work all around the world, until recently their academic theological reflection has lagged behind the grassroots-level activities. Julie and Wonsuk Ma's book testifies to the fact that Pentecostal theological reflection on mission has come of age.  [Read more as HTML or PDF]

• Announcing
  
  

   

  

  Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers are celebrating their centennial this year with special events, including the symposium "Church in Mission: The Maryknoll Centennial Symposium," to be held October 6–8 at Catholic Theological Union, Chicago.  [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.