International Bulletin of Missionary Research back issues from January 2009:
Church communions and mission.
Jan 01, 2009; ... The missiometrics report on global mission in the January 2006 IBMR drew our attention to 350 Christian World Communions (CWCs) representing some 39,000 distinct denominations worldwide. In this issue the authors of the report, David Barrett, Todd Johnson, and Peter Crossing, return to the ...
Equipping for God's mission: the missiological vision of the 2008 Lambeth Conference of Anglican Bishops.(Conference news)
Jan 01, 2009; ... The decennial meeting of bishops of the worldwide Anglican Communion, known as the Lambeth Conference, has never been immune from controversy. Archbishop of Canterbury Charles Longley called for the first Lambeth Conference in 1867, in part to consider whether John Colenso, bishop of Natal ...
Anglicans and reconciling mission: an assessment of two Anglican international gatherings.
Jan 01, 2009; ... Seven years on from Philip Jenkins's The Next Christendom (Oxford, 2002; rev. ed., 2007), the global community of Anglican Christians may be looking at "The Next Communion," although a lot of uncertainty still remains regarding the shape and life of that communion. The issues of ...
The impact of the sexuality controversy on mission: the case of the Episcopal Church in the Anglican Communion.
Jan 01, 2009; ... As controversy about the place of homosexuality in Christian life and church polity strains the stability and unity of churches in the United States and around the world, the turmoil is affecting churches' global mission work as well. Since mission typically takes place through webs of ...
Journal of World Christianity.(Announcing)(New York Theological Seminary)(Brief article)
Jan 01, 2009 ... The inaugural issue of the Journal of World Christianity, a mission e-journal "seeking to explore intercultural, interconfessional, and interreligious dynamics of Christianity as a world religion," was published online in September 2008 by the Center for World Christianity at New York ...
Acta Missiologiae.(Announcing)(Karoli Gaspar University)(Brief article)
Jan 01, 2009 ... Acta Missiologiae, an interdenominational journal for reflection on missiological issues and mission practice in central and eastern Europe, released its first issue in 2008. Published once a year by the Central and Eastern European Institute for Mission Studies, Karoli Gaspar University, ...
"Christian Mission in Orthodox Context: Canonical Territories, Religious Freedom, and Issues of Proselytism.".(Announcing)
Jan 01, 2009 ... The International Baptist Theological Seminary, Prague, Czech Republic, will conduct a research colloquium February 8-11, 2009, on the theme "Christian Mission in Orthodox Context: Canonical Territories, Religious Freedom, and Issues of Proselytism." ...
Bethel University Conference on Sociological Perspectives on Reconciliation.(Announcing)
Jan 01, 2009 ... "Imagining the Future: The Reconciled Community" is the theme for the first Bethel University Conference on Sociological Perspectives on Reconciliation, to be held February 20-21, 2009. Sponsored by the Moberg Lectureship on Christianity and ...
French Colonial Historical Society.(Announcing)
Jan 01, 2009 ... The thirty-fifth annual meeting of the French Colonial Historical Society will take place at San Francisco State University May ...
The 2009 meetings of the American Society of Missiology and the Association of Professors of Mission will be held June 18-21 at Techny Towers, Techny, Illinois.(Announcing)
Jan 01, 2009 ... The 2009 meetings of the American Society of Missiology and the Association of Professors of Mission will be held June 18-21 at Techny Towers, Techny, Illinois. The theme for the ASM meeting, announced by president William Burrows, managing editor of Orbis Books, is "Emerging Churches and ...
Yale-Edinburgh Group on the History of the Missionary Movement and Non-Western Christianity.(Announcing)
Jan 01, 2009 ... The Yale-Edinburgh Group on the History of the Missionary Movement and Non-Western Christianity will hold its 2009 international conference July 2-4 at Yale Divinity School, with "Missions, Law, and Custom" as its theme. The conference is ...
Duncan Black Macdonald Center.(Appointed)(Ingrid Mattson)(Brief article)
Jan 01, 2009 ... Appointed. Ingrid Mattson, director of the Duncan Black Macdonald Center for the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, Hartford Seminary, Hartford, Connecticut, effective July 1, 2008. Mattson, professor of Islamic ...
Died.(Personalia)(Dellanna West O'Brien, William D. Reyburn, Carl F. Starkloff)(Obituary)
Jan 01, 2009 ... Died. Dellanna West O'Brien, former executive director of the Southern Baptist Convention's Woman's Missionary Union, September 7, 2008, in Plano, Texas. As director of WMU from 1989 to 1999, O'Brien launcheda number of initiatives, including the Christian Women's Job Corps. She ...
The International impact of the formation of the Church of South India: Bishop Newbigin versus the Anglican Fathers.(Lesslie Newbigin)
Jan 01, 2009; ... The formation of the Church of South India (CSI) in 1947 was looked upon with great interest around the world, particularly as it pioneered the reunion of episcopal with non-episcopal churches. This event in South India impacted mission-church relationships, for it demanded new structures ...
U.S. Catholic missioners: more laity, greater focus on North America.(Table)(Brief article)
Jan 01, 2009 ... <Pre> U.S. Catholic Missioners: More Laity, Greater Focus on North America The U.S. Catholic Mission Association ... compiles statistics on U.S. citizens--laity, religious, and clergy--serving in mission both within and outside [the United States]. The latest survey was mailed to 689 ...
Christian World Communions: five overviews of Global Christianity, AD 1800-2025.(Report)
Jan 01, 2009 ... This 8-page report is the twenty-fifth in an annual series in the IBMR. This year we set out a 5-fold panorama of descriptors of the relatively unknown Conference of Christian World Communions (CCWC)--historical, documentary, photographic, confessional, and statistical. A ...
The computer revolution and its impact on evangelical mission research and strategy.(Essay)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Mainframes, then minis, then micros--like a blinking, buzzing hoard, computers invaded the countryside of the global human experience, set up occupation, and instigated change everywhere. (1) They have marched in by the thousands, then by the millions, and then, thanks to the Internet, ...
The Roman Catholic church's southward shift.(Reprint)
Jan 01, 2009 ... The most recent edition of the Statistical Yearbook of the Church documents the continuing growth of the Church in the southern regions of the globe. The information presented was current as of December 31, 2006, and includes a number of comparisons for the five-year period 2001-2006. ...
My pilgrimage in mission.(Personal account)
Jan 01, 2009; ... At the age of twelve I decided that I wanted to be a missionary, though I do not know exactly why. I was born into a Polish-American Catholic family in Chicago in 1932, the youngest of seven children. I went to Catholic parochial schools and knew from an early age that I wanted to be a ...
Translating the Message: The Missionary Impact on Culture.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Translating the Message: The Missionary Impact on Culture. 2d ed., revised and expanded. By Lamin Sanneh. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 2008. Pp. xiii, 318. Paperback $30. Lamin Sanneh, pioneer of the new historiography of world Christianity, has prepared an improved ...
Opening China: Karl F.A. Gutzlaff and Sino-Western Relations, 1827-1852.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Opening China: Karl F. A. Gutzlaff and Sino-Western Relations, 1827-1852. By Jessie Gregory Lutz. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2008. Pp. xix, 364. Paperback $45. Among missionaries to China, probably none is more maligned and misunderstood than Karl E A. Gutzlaff. A ...
A History of Christianity in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, 1450-1990: A Documentary Sourcebook.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2009; ... A History of Christianity in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, 1450-1990: A Documentary Sourcebook. Edited by Klaus Koschorke, Frieder Ludwig, and Mariano Delgado, in cooperation with Roland Spliesgart. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2007. Pp. xxxiii, 426. Paperback $35. ...
Converting Colonialism: Visions and Realities in Mission History, 1706-1914.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Converting Colonialism: Visions and Realities in Mission History, 1706-1914. Edited by Dana L. Robert. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2008. Pp. x, 304. Paperback $40. In this volume Dana Robert has assembled essays from the North Atlantic Missiology Project that recapture ...
Antioch Agenda: Essays on the Restorative Church in Honor of Orlando E. Costas.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Antioch Agenda: Essays on the Restorative Church in Honor of Orlando E. Costas. Edited by Daniel Jeyaraj, Robert W. Pazmino, and Rodney L. Petersen. New Delhi: ISPCK, 2007. Pp. xxi, 384. Paperback Rs 400 / $24 /18 [pounds sterling]. Twenty years after the death of ...
Healing Henan: Canadian Nurses at the North China Mission, 1888-1947.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Healing Henan: Canadian Nurses at the North China Mission, 1888-1947. By Sonya Grypma. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2008. Pp. xx, 292. C$85 / US$93.95; paperback C$32.95 / US$36.95. This ambitiously titled and carefully worked study by Sonya Grypma, a historian of nursing, ...
African Pentecostalism: An Introduction.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2009; ... African Pentecostalism: An Introduction. By Ogbu Kalu. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2008. Pp. xvi, 359. $99; paperback $24.95. This book by eminent African church historian Ogbu Kalu, a Nigerian and Henry Winters Luce Professor of World Christianity and Mission at ...
Contextualization of Christianity in China: An Evaluation in Modern Perspective.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Contextualization of Christianity in China: An Evaluation in Modern Perspective. Edited by Peter Chen-main Wang. Nettetal, Ger.: Steyler Verlag, 2007. Pp. 316. Paperback 40 [euro]. The eleven essays in this timely collection, written by noted Chinese and Western ...
"Providence Has Freed Our Hands": Women's Missions and the American Encounter with Japan.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2009; ... "Providence Has Freed Our Hands": Women's Missions and the American Encounter with Japan. By Karen K. Seat. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse Univ. Press, 2008. Pp. xviii, 193. $22.95. This book is primarily a study of the impact of the American women's missionary movement on ...
Black Robes in Paraguay: The Success of the Guarani Missions Hastened the Abolition of the Jesuits.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Black Robes in Paraguay: The Success of the Guarani Missions Hastened the Abolition of the Jesuits. By William F. Jaenike. Minneapolis: Kirk House Publishers, 2008. Pp. 356. $35; paperback $25. How could it be that a Roman Catholic order filled with extraordinarily ...
Sea of Faith: Islam and Christianity in the Medieval Mediterranean World.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Sea of Faith: Islam and Christianity in the Medieval Mediterranean World. By Stephen O'Shea. New York: Walker, 2006. Pp xii, 411. Paperback $26.95. Christian-Muslim relations today can be understood only against the background of fourteen hundred years of difficult ...
Bishop Stephen Neill: From Edinburgh to South India.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Bishop Stephen Neill: From Edinburgh to South India. By Dyron B. Daughrity. New York: Peter Lang, 2008. Pp. x, 305. $77.95 / SFr 93 / 59.90 [euro] / 38.90 [pounds sterling]. Dyron Daughrity is to be commended for this badly needed book from the hands of a responsible ...
Highland Indians and the State in Modern Ecuador.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Highland Indians and the State in Modern Ecuador. Edited by A. Kim Clark and Marc Becker. Pittsburgh: Univ. of Pittsburgh Press, 2007. Pp. 360. $39.95. The final chapter of this excellent book notes, "Ecuador as a small country on South America's Pacific Coast often ...
News of Boundless Riches: Interrogating, Comparing, and Reconstructing Mission in a Global Era.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2009; ... News of Boundless Riches: Interrogating, Comparing, and Reconstructing Mission in a Global Era. Edited by Max L. Stackhouse and Lalsangkima Pachuau. New Delhi: ISPCK, 2007. Vol. 1, pp. xlviii, 273; vol. 2, pp. xlviii, 284. Paperback Rs 300 / $18 / 13 [pounds sterling] (each ...
Clio in a Sacred Garb: Essays on Christian Presence and African Responses, 1900-2000.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Clio in a Sacred Garb: Essays on Christian Presence and African Responses, 1900-2000. By Ogbu U. Kalu. Trenton, N.J., and Asmara, Eritrea: Africa World Press, 2008. Pp. xvii, 346. Paperback $29.95. In this volume Ogbu U. Kalu, currently Henry Winters Luce Professor ...
The Churches of Egypt: From the Journey of the Holy Family to the Present Day.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2009; ... The Churches of Egypt: From the Journey of the Holy Family to the Present Day. By Gawdat Gabra and Gertrud J. M. van Loon, with Darlene L. Brooks Hedstrom. Edited by Carolyn Ludwig. Photographs by Sherif Sonbol. Cairo: The American Univ. in Cairo Press, 2007. (A Ludwig ...
Dissertation notices.(Bibliography)
Jan 01, 2009 ... Bae, Yo-Han. "The Divine-Human Relationship in Korean Religious Traditions: The Presence and Transformation of the Themes from the T'an Gun Myth in the Choson Chujahak Tradition and Korean Protestant Christianity." Th.D. Boston: Boston Univ. School of Theology, 2007 ....
Book notes.
Jan 01, 2009 ... Austin, Peter K., ed. One Thousand Languages: Living, Endangered, and Lost. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press, 2008. Pp. 288. $29.95. Braaten, Carl E. That All May Believe: A Theology of the Gospel and the Mission of the Church. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2008 ....