Recently added articles from International Bulletin of Missionary Research:
Africa and the Christian mission.
Apr 01, 2009; ... The one thread linking the essays in this issue is Africa. A continent that frequently elicits but ultimately defies generalizations, Africa is geographically immense, culturally complex, and religiously diverse. Most of its fifty-three discrete nation-states trace their boundaries to an ...
Remembering evangelization: the option for the poor and mission history.(Essay)
Apr 01, 2009; ... Contemporary missiology often embraces an option for the poor, emphasizing that Christian mission must prioritize bringing Christ's Good News to the marginalized. (1) Yet the option for the poor has a significant role to play more than just within constructive missiology, where it orients ...
"Obstinate" pastor and pioneer historian: the impact of Basel Mission ideology on the thought of Carl Christian Reindorf.(Essay)
Apr 01, 2009; ... In 1895, after twenty-five years of historical and ethnological research, Carl Christian Reindorf, a Ghanaian pastor of the Basel Mission, produced a massive and systematic work about the people of modern southern Ghana, The History of the Gold Coast and Asante (1895). (1) Reindorf, "the ...
David Bosch: South African context, universal missiology--ecclesiology in the emerging missionary paradigm.(Essay)
Apr 01, 2009; ... I begin this article about David Bosch (1929-92) with a personal reminiscence. My first experience of a meeting of the International Association for Mission Studies (IAMS) was in Harare in 1985, at a time when Zimbabwe seemed to have thrown off the colonial yoke and was moving toward a ...
Issues of the History of Christianity in Korea-U.S. and Korea-Canada Relations.(Announcing)(Brief article)
Apr 01, 2009 ... The Dongsoon Im and Mija Im Korean Christianity Program of the UCLA Center for Korean Studies will hold a conference April 17-18, 2009, at UCLA with the theme "Issues of the History of Christianity in Korea-U.S. and Korea-Canada Relations." Papers will be given on topics such as ...
The Transatlantic Dimensions of African and Asian Christianity.(Announcing)(Liverpool Hope University)(Brief article)
Apr 01, 2009 ... The Andrew F. Walls Centre for the Study of African and Asian Christianity, Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool, U.K., will host a conference June 19-21, 2009, on the topic "The Transatlantic Dimensions of African and Asian Christianity." Presenters will examine a series of topics, ...
U.S. Catholic Mission Association.(Announcing)(Brief article)
Apr 01, 2009 ... The U.S. Catholic Mission Association (www .uscatholicmission.org) will hold its 2009 annual conference October 23-25 in New Orleans. "Behold I Create a New Heaven and a New Earth: Seeing Mission with New Eyes" will be the theme, and Anthony Gittins, C.S.Sp., professor of mission and ...
University of Gottingen and the Missionsseminar Hermannsburg.(Announcing)(Brief article)
Apr 01, 2009 ... The Faculty of Theology at the University of Gottingen and the Missionsseminar Hermannsburg (Mission Seminary Hermannsburg), in Germany, are cooperating to launch a Master of Arts in Intercultural Theology program, beginning in October 2009. The ...
Institute of Historical Research, University of London.(Announcing)(Brief article)
Apr 01, 2009 ... An evening seminar, "Christian Missions in Global History," will be offered several times each term at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London. While focusing on diverse ...
Asbury Theological Seminary.(Appointed)(Brief article)
Apr 01, 2009 ... Timothy C. Tennent, 49, missiologist, author, and seminary professor, as eighth president of Asbury Theological Seminary, on February 17, 2009. Tennent comes to Asbury from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, South Hamilton, Massachusetts, where he has been professor of world missions and ...
Fraternidad Teologica Latinoamericana.(Appointed)(Brief article)
Apr 01, 2009 ... Ruth Padilla DeBorst, general secretary, Latin American Theological Fellowship, Fraternidad Teologica Latinoamericana. The eldest daughter of theologian and missiologist Rene Padilla, DeBorst has been director of Ediciones Certeza Unida, the Spanish-language publishing house linked to the ...
Gary Blair McGee.(Died)(Obituary)(Brief article)
Apr 01, 2009 ... Gary Blair McGee, 63, Assemblies of God educator, missiologist, author, and historian, December 10, 2008, in Springfield, Missouri, of cancer. The author of seven books, he is known for This Gospel Shall Be Preached: A History and Theology of Assemblies of God Foreign Missions Since 1959 ...
Ogbu U. Kalu.(Died)(McCormick Theological Seminary)(Obituary)(Brief article)
Apr 01, 2009 ... Ogbu U. Kalu, 66, professor of world Christianity and mission, McCormick Theological Seminary, Chicago, on January 7, 2009, in Chicago, of complications from pneumonia. He was director of McCormick's Chicago Center for Global Ministries. Kalu came to McCormick in 2001 from the University ...
Johannes Althausen.(Died)(Obituary)(Brief article)
Apr 01, 2009 ... Johannes Althausen, 79, German Lutheran church leader in mission and theological education in the former German Democratic Republic, November 15, 2008, in Berlin. Director of theological training for the Evangelical Church in Berlin-Brandenburg, he formerly served as secretary for ...
Millard Fuller.(Died)(Obituary)(Brief article)
Apr 01, 2009 ... Millard Fuller, 74, founder of Habitat for Humanity International, Americus, Georgia, on February 3, 2009, near Americus, Georgia, following a brief illness. At age 29 Fuller left a lucrative business career to serve the poor, practicing what he later called "the theology of the hammer." ...
Avery Cardinal Dulles.(Died)(Obituary)(Brief article)
Apr 01, 2009 ... Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J., 90, professor of religion and society at Fordham University since 1988, author, lecturer, and the first American who was not a bishop to be named a Roman Catholic cardinal, on December 12, 2008, in New York. After study at Harvard College and in Europe, the ...
"What happened next?" Vincent Donovan, thirty-five years on.(Essay)
Apr 01, 2009; ... Vincent Donovan left Tanzania thirty-six years ago, in 1973. suspect that most readers of his best-selling Christianity Rediscovered (Orbis 1978) get to the end of the book and ask, "What happened next?" Donovan was a Roman Catholic priest and a member of the Congregation of the ...
My pilgrimage in mission.(Biography)
Apr 01, 2009; ... The Old Testament prophet Amos described himself as a herdsman and a dresser of sycamore trees. One day the Lord tapped Amos on the shoulder and said, "Go, prophesy to my people." When they asked Amos what right he had to speak the Lord's words, he admitted, "I am neither a prophet nor the ...
The legacy of Franz Mayr.(Biography)
Apr 01, 2009; ... On March 6, 1865, Franz Mayr was born to Georg and Maria Mayr, farmers in the tiny village of Obernussdorf in the mountainous Austrian Tyrol. Mayr suffered from kyphoscoliosis, a disorder of the spine characterized by progressive deformities consisting of lateral and posterior curvatures ...
The legacy of Vincent J. McCauley.(Biography)
Apr 01, 2009; ... The Congregation of Holy Cross, a Roman Catholic religious order established in 1837 in France, provided missionaries to foreign lands almost from the outset. In 1840, religious were sent to Algiers; one year later others were sent to Indiana. In 1853 Holy Cross took on the mission of East ...