International Bulletin of Missionary Research back issues from October 2006:
Edinburgh 1910: friendship and the boundaries of Christendom.
Oct 01, 2006; ... Several of the articles in this issue relate directly to the extraordinary World Missionary Conference convened in Edinburgh from June 14 to 23, 1910. At that time, Europe's global hegemony was unrivaled, and old Christendom's self-assurance had reached its peak. That the nations whose ...
Defining the boundaries of Christendom: the two worlds of the World Missionary Conference, 1910.(Conference notes)
Oct 01, 2006; ... "Edinburgh 1910" is remembered as the conference that set the course of the twentieth-century ecumenical movement. Its delegates spanned the theological spectrum of the non-Roman Catholic Western missionary enterprise. Catholic Anglicans and those who would soon be known as fundamentalists ...
The centenary of Edinburgh 1910: its possibilities.
Oct 01, 2006; ... Given our decimal units of measurement, it is hard to avoid the sense that a significant moment strikes when we arrive at the centenary of a notable event. Although anniversaries can degenerate into occasions of maudlin self-congratulation, nevertheless when a cause is held dear, its ...
World Christianity as a women's movement.(Viewpoint essay)
Oct 01, 2006; ... The recognition that Christian affiliation is shifting to the Southern Hemisphere has released tremendous academic energy on issues of Christianity as a world religion, and it has provoked studies of the particular nature of faith and religious participation in Asia, Africa, and Latin ...
International Conference on Christianity and the State: Complicity and Conflict.(Announcing)
Oct 01, 2006 ... The International Conference on Christianity and the State: Complicity and Conflict, to be held in Singapore, January 10-12, 2007, will consider questions such as, In an increasingly globalized world, what does it mean to be Christian in contemporary Asia? ...
A workshop on short-term missions to be hosted by the Ph.D. Program in Intercultural Studies at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, Illinois, March 22-24, 2007, will feature Robert J. Wuthnow, director of the Center for the Study of Religion and chair of the Department of Sociology at Princeton University, as a key presenter.(Announcing)
Oct 01, 2006 ... A workshop on short-term missions to be hosted by the Ph.D. Program in Intercultural Studies at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, Illinois, March 22-24, 2007, will feature Robert J. Wuthnow, director of the Center for the Study of Religion and chair of the Department of ...
The Yale-Edinburgh Group on the History of the Missionary Movement and Non-Western Christianity, meeting June 28-30, 2007, at Yale Divinity School, New Haven, Connecticut, will address the topic "Liberty, Slavery, and Christian Missions.(Announcing)
Oct 01, 2006 ... The Yale-Edinburgh Group on the History of the Missionary Movement and Non-Western Christianity, meeting June 28-30, 2007, at Yale Divinity School, New Haven, Connecticut, will address the topic "Liberty, Slavery, and Christian Missions." The questions discussed will include, What were the ...
"Christian Missions in 19th and 20th Century Southern Africa: Passing Review and Breaking New Ground".(Announcing)
Oct 01, 2006 ... A conference, "Christian Missions in 19th and 20th Century Southern Africa: Passing Review and Breaking New Ground," will be hosted July 8-11, 2007, by the History Department of Rhodes University, Grahamstown, ...
International Association for Mission Studies.(Announcing)
Oct 01, 2006 ... The International Association for Mission Studies (www.missionstudies.org) will hold its twelfth assembly in Budapest, Hungary, August 16-22, 2008. The IAMS secretariat seeks brief proposals for papers, the abstracts of which ...
Evangelical Training Database.(Announcing)
Oct 01, 2006 ... In May 2006 the Missionary Training Service, the World Evangelical Alliance, members of the International Commission for Evangelical Theological Education, Trainers of Pastors International Coalition, and others launched the Evangelical Training Database, a multilingual online ...
The first one-volume commentary on all the books of the Bible "written in Africa by Africans and for African churches" was launched in July 2006, according to SIM's Web site.(Announcing)(Serving In Mission's Africa Bible Commentary)(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2006 ... The first one-volume commentary on all the books of the Bible "written in Africa by Africans and for African churches" was launched in July 2006, according to SIM's Web site. Written in English by seventy contributors from twenty-five countries, the Africa Bible Commentary aims to explain ...
Blackwell Publishing plans to produce a three-volume Encyclopedia of Christian Civilization in 2008.(Announcing)
Oct 01, 2006 ... Blackwell Publishing plans to produce a three-volume Encyclopedia of Christian Civilization in 2008. With 900 entries, it will be "one of the largest encyclopedias defining Christian faith, legacy, experience and ...
East Asia Institute of the University of Zurich.(Announcing)
Oct 01, 2006 ... Anne-Marie Werner of the East Asia Institute of the University of Zurich, Switzerland, has created a database with a chronology of cultural relations ...
WorldCat.(Announcing)
Oct 01, 2006 ... WorldCat, a database that describes 1.3 billion items in more than 10,000 libraries worldwide, is now available for free at http://worldcat.org/. See more information about WorldCat at ...
Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.(Personalia)(Cardinal Ivan Dias)(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2006 ... Cardinal Ivan Dias, 70, archbishop of Bombay since 1996, now leads the Vatican's Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. In May 2006 Pope Benedict XVI named ...
The University of Notre Dame.(Personalia)(Mark A. Noll appointed )(Francis A. McAnaney appointed )(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2006 ... The University of Notre Dame appointed Mark A. Noll, McManis Professor of Christian Thought at Wheaton College and author of numerous books, including America's God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln (Oxford Univ. Press, 2002), as Francis A. McAnaney ...
Interdenominational Foreign Mission Association of North America.(Personalia)(Marvin J. Newell appointed as executive director )(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2006 ... Marvin J. Newell has been appointed executive director of the Interdenominational Foreign Mission Association of North America (IFMA), Wheaton, Illinois, (www. ifmamissions.org), effective January 1, 2007. A missionary with TEAM for twenty-one years and a former professor at Erikson-Tritt ...
Trustees of New York Theological Seminary.(Personalia)(Dale T. Irvin appointed as president)(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2006 ... Trustees of New York Theological Seminary elected historian of world Christianity Dale T. Irvin as NYTS's eleventh president, effective August 1, 2006. Formerly academic dean at the seminary and vice president for academic affairs, Irvin had been ...
Doctoral dissertation database online.
Oct 01, 2006 ... The database Researching World Christianity: Doctoral Dissertations on Mission Since 1900 can now be accessed online for free, unrestricted use. Hosted at the Yale Divinity School Library and produced in collaboration with the INTERNATIONAL BULLETIN OF MISSIONARY RESEARCH, the database ...
The role of women in the formation of the World Student Christian Federation.(Viewpoint essay)
Oct 01, 2006; ... A Picture taken in 1895 of the founders of the World Student Christian Federation (WSCF)--all males--might suggest that women were absent from the movement until their formal admission several years later. (1) Official histories of the movement and of its leaders would support this ...
Sherwood Eddy Pays a Visit to Adolf von Harnack Before Returning to the United States, December 1918.(Mark A. Noll)(Poem)
Oct 01, 2006; ... <Pre> SHERWOOD EDDY PAYS A VISIT TO ADOLF VON HARNACK BEFORE RETURNING TO THE UNITED STATES, DECEMBER 1918 I am shaken by this war--unless I am mistakenyour God received a nearly mortal wound.My friend Azariah would offer you his fellowship(and a few well-chosen ...
The world is our parish: remembering the 1919 Protestant missionary fair.
Oct 01, 2006; ... John Wesley once stated, "The world is my parish," a phrase that served as a springboard for a dramatic increase in missionary activity by Methodist mission agencies in Great Britain and the United States during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In the summer of 1919 American ...
The legacy of Hilda Lazarus.(Christian Medical College and Hospital )(Biography)
Oct 01, 2006; ... "For the members of the Christian community," Brian Stanley has observed, "the independence and partition of India in 1947 simply accentuated the problems inherited from the colonial era of how to affirm and defend their 'Indianness." (1) The problems to which Stanley refers also faced ...
Interfaith Dialogue: A Catholic View.(Book review)
Oct 01, 2006; ... Interfaith Dialogue: A Catholic View. By Michael L. Fitzgerald and John Borelli. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 2006. Pp. 192. Paperback $25. Interfaith Dialogue: A Catholic View is a light on the pathway to a future in which religious pluralism will be seen as a ...
The American Evangelical Story: A History of the Movement.(The Dominance of Evangelicalism: The Age of Spurgeon and Moody)(What a Friend We Have in Jesus: The Evangelical Tradition)(Book review)
Oct 01, 2006; ... The American Evangelical Story: A History of the Movement. By Douglas A. Sweeney. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2005. Pp. 208. Paperback $17.99. The Dominance of Evangelicalism: The Age of Spurgeon and Moody. Vol. 3 of A History of Evangelicalism: People, Movements, ...
Dutch Missionary Activities: An Oral History Project, 1976-1988.(Book review)
Oct 01, 2006; ... Dutch Missionary Activities: An Oral History Project, 1976-1988. Edited by Arnulf Camps, O.F.M., Vefie Pods, and Jan Willemsen. Nijmegen: Valkhof Pers, 2005. Pp. 523. 30 [euro]. This volume documents the KomMissie Memoires (KMM), an oral history project that was begun ...
Small Christian Communities Today: Capturing the New Moment.(Book review)
Oct 01, 2006; ... Small Christian Communities Today: Capturing the New Moment. Edited by Joseph G. Healy and Jeanne Hinton. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 2005. Pp. xiii, 224. Paperback $20. This book presents an updated overview of a very significant movement in the Christian world in ...
The Acts of Mar Mari the Apostle.(Book review)
Oct 01, 2006; ... Translated by Amir Harrak. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2005. Pp. xxxvii, 110. Paperback $19.95. Contemporary interest in Syriac Christianity derives from the fact that it preserves extensive and sustained evidence of Christianity that expressed itself exclusively in ...
The Poor Indians: British Missionaries, Native Americans, and Colonial Sensibility.(Book review)
Oct 01, 2006; ... The Poor Indians: British Missionaries, Native Americans, and Colonial Sensibility. By Laura M. Stevens. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. Pp. 264. $39.95; paperback $22.50. Laura Stevens, professor of English at the University of Tulsa, in Tulsa, ...
A History of the Ecumenical Movement. Vol. 3: 1968-2000.(Book review)
Oct 01, 2006; ... A History of the Ecumenical Movement. Vol. 3: 1968-2000 Edited by John Briggs, Mercy Amba Oduyoye, and Georges Tsetsis. Geneva: WCC Publications, 2004. Pp. xix, 697. $60. A History of the Ecumenical Movement is a three-volume account of the ecumenical movement from ...
A New Vision, a New Heart, a Renewed Call: Lausanne Occasional Papers from the 2004 Forum for World Evangelization.(Book review)
Oct 01, 2006; ... A New Vision, a New Heart, a Renewed Call: Lausanne Occasional Papers from the 2004 Forum for World Evangelization. Edited by David Claydon. Pasadena, Calif.: William Carey Library, 2005. 3 vols.: 746, 724, and 492 pp. Paperback $89.99. The Lausanne 2004 Forum for ...
Canadian Methodist Women, 1766-1925: Marys, Marthas, Mothers in Israel.(Book review)
Oct 01, 2006; ... Canadian Methodist Women, 1766-1925: Marys, Marthas, Mothers in Israel. By Marilyn Fardig Whiteley. Waterloo, Ont.: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press, 2005. Pp. xi, 306. $49.95. The 1835 report of the Hamilton Methodist Missionary Society included a remark that one woman ...
Missionary Tropics: The Catholic Frontier in India (16th-17th Centuries).(Book review)
Oct 01, 2006; ... Missionary Tropics: The Catholic Frontier in India (16th-17th Centuries) By Ines G. Zupanov. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press, 2005. Pp. 408. $75. This sophisticated work is a "trope" about "tropes"--a form of literary criticism called discourse analysis. As such, ...
The Pyramid under the Cross: Franciscan Discourses of Evangelization and the Nahua Christian Subject in Sixteenth-Century Mexico.(Book review)
Oct 01, 2006; ... The Pyramid Under the Cross: Franciscan Discourses of Evangelization and the Nahua Christian Subject in Sixteenth-Century Mexico. By Viviana Diaz Balsera. Tucson: Univ. of Arizona Press, 2005. Pp. 272. $45. The early Franciscan missions in Mexico possess an unfailing ...
Island Ministers: Indigenous Leadership in Nineteenth-Century Pacific Islands Christianity.(Book review)
Oct 01, 2006; ... Island Ministers: Indigenous Leadership in Nineteenth-Century Pacific Islands Christianity. By Raeburn Lange. Canberra: Pandanus Books, 2005. Pp. 436. Aus$31.78. This is a very welcome publication. For the first time we have a scholarly volume that does justice to ...
The Moravian Mission Diaries of David Zeisberger, 1771-1781.(Book review)
Oct 01, 2006; ... Edited by Hermann Wellenreuther and Carola Wessel. Translated by Julie Tomberlin Weber. University Park: Pennsylvania State Univ. Press, 2005. Pp. x, 666. $65. This book is a translation into English of the previously edited German mission diaries of David Zeisberger, a leading ...
In War and Famine: Missionaries in China's Honan Province in the 1940s.(Book review)
Oct 01, 2006; ... In War and Famine: Missionaries in China's Honan Province in the 1940s. By Erleen J. Christensen. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's Univ. Press, 2005. Pp. vii, 292. CA$44.95 / US$37.95 / 24.95 [pounds sterling]. This fascinating and evocative work is a double ...
Cross and Flag in Africa: The "White Fathers" during the Colonial Scramble (1892-1914).(Book review)
Oct 01, 2006; ... By Aylward Shorter. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 2006. Pp. xxv, 294. Paperback $25. No story of African Christianity can ignore the Missionaries of Africa, or White Fathers, Catholic missionaries who evangelized much of the continent. Aylward Shorter, a member as well as an ...
Christianity in Korea.(Book review)
Oct 01, 2006; ... Christianity in Korea. Edited by Robert E. Buswell, Jr., and Timothy S. Lee. Honolulu: Univ. of Hawai'i Press, 2006. Pp. viii, 408. $42. Robert Buswell of the University of California, Los Angeles, and Timothy Lee of Texas Christian University have coedited a volume ...
Dissertation notices.
Oct 01, 2006 ... Barnard, Robert. "Critical Analysis of Organisational Strategies Designed to Resolve Consequences of Dysfunctional Behaviour in Christian, Evangelical Organisations." Ph.D. Oxford: Oxford Centre for Mission Studies (Open Univ.), 2004. Bates, Matthew David, ...
Book notes.
Oct 01, 2006 ... Alberigo, Giuseppe, ed. Mathew J. O'Connell, trans. Joseph A. Komonchak, ed., Eng. version. History of Vatican II. Vol. 5: The Council and the Transition: The Fourth Period and the End of the Council, September 1965-December 1965. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books; ...