Western Christianity: resource and obstacle to world missions

Now that\u27s my text, my topic and my notes. That\u27s it. Everything I say from here on is going to reflect in some way on Western Christianity as either or both a resource and an obstacle to missions

MRL12: Laymen's Foreign Missions Inquiry Records, 1879-1940

Finding aid for Laymen’s Foreign Missions Inquiry (LFMI) Records. Includes information on Institute of Social and Religious Research; Commission of Appraisal; National Committee for Promotion of LFMI; Modern Missions Movement; Movement for World Christianity; National Committee for Christian Education in China; Commission on Christian Education in Japan; YMCA in China. Topics include church and education, economics, medical work, women, and social, industrial, and religious backgrounds of India, Burma, China, and Japan, as well as the report "Re-Thinking Missions" and its reception. Documents include notes, manuscript reports, printed materials; missionary personnel; returned interview forms; surveys of pastors, missionaries, and medical professionals

An Analytical Examination of Contemporary Missionary Motives Objectives and Methods

Christianity has been a missionary religion from New Testament times. It has claimed to be a religion unique from all other religions of the world because it has God\u27s only revelation of the answer to the spiritual needs of mankind, and because of this claim to uniqueness it has been a proselyting religion. In recent years there have been some from within the ranks of Christianity who have not been too sure whether the missionary imperative is valid today. They feel that missions should be curtailed if not discarded because of the lack of a motive that is unique. Not only is there a question of the value of missions but there is a divergence of opinion as to what missions should be trying to do and how it should be doing it. Each of these problems determines the next; the motives of missions will determine the objective that is to be attained and the objectives will determine the method best suited to its attainment. The problem of this study was to determine: 1, the unique motives of Christianity for missionary endeavor which cannot be claimed by any other religion or social institution, which motive the expenditure of time, manpower, and money for the purpose of evangelization; 2, the claimed objectives for missionary endeavor which are in agreement with these motives; and 3, the proper and adequate methods which may be used to attain these objectives

Nauczanie misjologii w świecie chrześcijańskim i dla niego. Treść i metoda

The article begins with a brief defi nition of „World Christianity” and elaborates three theses for conceiving the relationship between missiology and theology, the understanding and practice of Christian missions, and the teaching of missiology. I argue that outside missiology there is no theology. I also reject the separation between church history and missiology, the division between the historic churches of the West and the „mission lands” of the rest, and a narrow focus of the goal of Christian missions on conversion and church-planting. Finally, I recommend a shift from „church history” to „history of Christianity.”The article begins with a brief defi nition of „World Christianity” and elaborates three theses for conceiving the relationship between missiology and theology, the understanding and practice of Christian missions, and the teaching of missiology. I argue that outside missiology there is no theology. I also reject the separation between church history and missiology, the division between the historic churches of the West and the „mission lands” of the rest, and a narrow focus of the goal of Christian missions on conversion and church-planting. Finally, I recommend a shift from „church history” to „history of Christianity.

Christian Missions in China before Morrison

Less than a half century after Augustine of Canterbury began his work of Christianizing the Anglo-Saxons in England; nearly a half century before Boniface, the so-called Apostle of the Germans, was born; fully two hundred years before Ansgar, the Apostle of the North, began his work of founding the Christian Church among the Northmen; and long before Christianity had came to the Moravians, Bulgarians, Bohemians, Hungarians, Pomeranians, Prussians, Poles, Russians, and other people that make up the Western Christian world to-day, Christianity was brought to China, that far-fung land with its teeming millions of inhabitants, which in spite of all the past efforts at the Christianization of its people is at the present time still one of the greatest and most important fields for Christion missions in the world

Correlating the Nevius Method with Church Planting Movements: Early Korean Revivals as a Case Study

John Nevius served as a missionary to China in the late nineteenth-century. From his field experience, Nevius argued for radical changes in missionary methodology. His greatest influence may have been on the mission to Korea beginning in the 1890s. David Garrison, currently serving in South Asia, served for several years in influential administrative roles within the International (formerly Foreign) Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. He studied and advocated Church Planting Movements [CPM], necessitating a change in contemporary missionary methodology. Both men have made major contributions to the practice of missions. This article endeavors to show the similarities between their methods, viz., the Nevius Method and CPMs, through the historical lens of the introduction of Protestant Christianity to Korea. The impetus behind this analysis is the role and value of missions history in developing missionary strategy. Both the Nevius Method and Church Planting Movements implement certain similar strategies that have proved effective and are worthy of consideration

Christian Missions and Colonial Empires Reconsidered: A Black Evangelist in West Africa, 1766-1816

The article presents an exploration into the work of the late 18th-century West African Anglican missionary Philip Quaque and the relationship between imperialism and religion during the colonial era. The author points out and criticizes the dominant historiographical trend of over-conflating White imperialism with Christian missions. Quaque\u27s life and writings are examined, highlighting the lack of forced cultural conversion within his missionary activities. Discussion is also given regarding the complex identity dynamics within Quaque as a Christian and as an African

Journal of African Christian Biography: v. 4, no. 2

A publication of the Dictionary of African Christian Biography with U.S. offices located at the Center for Global Christianity and Mission at Boston University. This issue focuses on: 1. Tributes to Lamin Sanneh by friends, family, colleagues, scholars, a Bible translator, and an editor. 2. Biographies by Lamin Sanneh in the DACB. 3. A selected bibliography by Lamin Sanneh, compiled by B. Restrick. 4. Book Notes, compiled by B. Restric