Assoc. Prof. Frieder Ludwig

Office: Bockman 122, Office phone 641-3290; fludwig@luthersem.edu

 

CM2410:  THE MISSION OF THE TRIUNE GOD I

Luther Seminary /January 2008

 

COURSE DESCRIPTION

An examination of the mission of the Triune God from biblical, theological, historical, and cultural perspectives in an effort to discern significant components of contemporary mission in a global context..

 

REQUIRED READINGS (All books should be in the bookstore.)

 

Bosch, David. Transforming Mission: Paradigm Shifts in the Theology of Mission (Orbis, 1991).

Koschorke, Klaus/Ludwig, Frieder/Delgado, Mariano, History of Christianity in Asia, Africa and Latin America, (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans,  October 2007)

Nelson, Dana, Mission & Migration (Minneapolis: Kirkhouse 2007)

Sanneh, Lamin. Translating the Message: The Missionary Impact on Culture (New York, 1989)

 

 

RECOMMENDED READINGS

 

Bediako, Kwame.  Christianity in Africa: The Renewal of Non-Western Religion (Orbis, 1996).

P.V. Martinson (ed.), Mission at the Dawn of the 21st Century (Minneapolis 1999)

Newbigin, Lesslie.  The Gospel in a Pluralistic Society (Eerdmans, 1989).

Niles, D. Preman. From East and West. Rethinking Christian Mission (St.Louis: Chalice, 2004).

Stolle, Volker, The Church Comes from All Nations (St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 2003).

Walls, Andrew.  The Missionary Movement in Christian History (Orbis, 1996).

 

 

REQUIREMENTS

 

A.      PREPARATION FOR CLASS.  Prepare yourself to participate actively in all of the sessions. Read the assigned texts. They will be discussed in class. You will be asked to give two short presentation (5-15 minutes) in class and to introduce an assigned text. If you miss a session, then you must turn in a 500-word analysis of the question addressed in the precept.

B.       LECTURES.  Much of the course’s content will be presented in the lectures.  There will be short contributions by students, and your active participation is expected. If you miss a lecture, you must turn in a 500-word summary of the assigned texts.      

C.       VISIT TO A NEW IMMIGRANT CONGREGATION: We will visit a new immigrant congregation on Sunday, January 14th. We will make a selection from the list which will be provided. Afterwards, we will come together to reflect on the visit.

D.      ESSAYS.  Two essays are required. The first one will be a reflection on Mission Theology. It shall be based on one of the key themes which were summarized in the lectures and discussed in the precepts . The focus of the second essay is on the experience of encounters with people of other cultural backgrounds in a congregation you visit with your group.  You should report about the background of the church as well as of the congregation, the way they celebrate worship, their ways to integrate outsiders, their mission methods and also about your personal reflections.

·         Essay #1: Mission and World Christianity - Biblical and confessional perspectives (due 1/14) (1500 words or more)

·         Essay #2: Visit to local Congregations: Experiences & theological reflections” due1/21 (1,500 words or more)

 

 

GRADING CRITERIA

 

Your grade will be based on your essays and participation in precepts.  Given Luther Seminary’s mission as an institution, I will grade all papers I receive on the basis of the following criteria.  On your official record, however, you will only receive a course grade if you request it with a grade slip from the Registrar’s Office within the first two weeks.

 

 

GRADE

GENERAL CRITERIA

SPECIFIC CRITERIA

A.      Excellent preparation for missionary and theological leadership

Student’s understanding of the role of mission in history and theology is not only faithful, coherent, and effective, but nuanced, imaginative, and critically insightful.

Has thoroughly understood the body of knowledge covered in this course and has, in public writing and conversation, not only coherently engaged its central problems, questions, and issues but has done so with nuance, imagination and critical insight.

B.       Good preparation for missionary and theological leadership

Understanding of the role of mission in history and theology is faithful, coherent, and effective.

Has understood the body of knowledge covered in this course and has coherently engaged its central problems, questions, and issues in writing and public conversation.

C.        Basic catechesis

Has a basic grasp of the content of Missiology.

Has demonstrated a basic grasp of the body of knowledge covered in this course.

 

COURSE SCHEDULE

DATE:

READINGS & PREPARATIONS: 

THEMES

 

Monday

Jan. 7th :

 

 

 

D.P. Niles, From East and West, 33-45

Andrew Walls, The Expansion of Christianity: An Interview

P. Jenkins, A New Christendom

 

Introduction

(Migrating Mission, Concepts of Mission, Missio Dei, Mission from the Global South)

 

Tuesday,

Jan. 8th :

 

 

Bosch, 15-24

Richard Bauckham, Bible and Mission. Christian Witness in a Postmodern World (Grand Rapids: Baker House Press 2003), 28 -49, 73-81

Senior/Stuhlmueller, 9-35

Bosch, 25-83

 

 

“to gather all nations and tongues” (Is: 66:18): Reflections on Mission in the Old Testament

(Mission in the Gospels

Centripetal and centrifugal tendencies)

 

Wednesday,

January 9th:

 

 

 

 

 

Teresa Okure, The Johannine Approach to Mission, Tuebingen 1988, 1-35; 285-311

Amjad-Ali, Charles.  “The Future of Mission: The Subversive Memory of Jesus,” International Review of Mission 79 (July 1990): 345-357.

Justo L. Gonzalez, Acts. The Gospel of the Spirit, New York 2001, 1-48

Bevans/Schroeder, 10-30

 

 

 

Reflections on Acts 

Paul’s missionary methods

(Acts and Missio Dei,

Mission to the Gentiles)

 

Thursday,

January 10th

 

Sanneh, Translating the Message, chapters 1,7

 

Bediako, Theology and Identity, 1-14, 225-266, 426-444

 

Kosuke Koyama, “The Role of Translation in Developing Indigenous Theologies- An Asian View”, in Stine, Philip C., Bible Translation and the Spread of the Church. The Last 200 years, Leiden: Brill, 1992, 95-107

Translating the Message

 

(Importance of Translations; Mission & Culture: 2nd  Century & Africa today; In-cultural and counter-cultural dimensions of the Gospel)

 

 

Essay I: Mission and World Christianity - Biblical and confessional perspectives (due 1/14

 

Friday,

January 11th

Bosch, 239-261

 

Werner Elert, The Structure of Lutheranism (St. Louis: Concordia, 1962), 385-404

 

Paul Rajashekar, “Navigating Difficult Questions,” in Bliese/van Gelder, 92-112

 

Stolle,19-25, 34 – 45, 82-95

 

Lutheran Dialectics:

Solas and Simul

 

(The Wittenberg Reformation &  Mission: A Problematic relationship; Luther on Mission ; Theologia Crucis and her implications for mission)

 

 

Sunday,

January 13th

 

 

 

 

Visit to a new immigrant Congregation

 

Monday,

January 14th :

 

Selected Texts from Koschorke/Ludwig/Delgado:

 

34, 35, 36,37, 38 - A

167,168, 169, 170

223, 224, 225, 227

Mission and Colonialism

Asian, African, Latin American Perspectives

 

Tuesday,

January 15th  

 

 

Achebe, Chinua, Things Fall Apart

Comaroff, Jean and John, Of Revelation and Revolution. Christianity, Colonialism, and Consciousness in South Africa, 2 vols., Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1991, 1997.

Kingsolver, Barbara, The Poisonwood Bible, 1998

 

The Problems of Mission or Mission as a problem?

 

(Critiques and Challenges ;; Mission and Justice; Western Mission – African and Asian Churches)

 

 

 

Wednesday,

January 16th

 

Selected Texts from Koschorke/Ludwig/Delgado

(70, 71, 72, 82, 83, 183, 185),

Article “World Missionary Conferences” in Mueller/Sundermeier/Bevans/Bliese

 

 

 

World Missionary Conferences –

 

 

Thursday,

January 17th

 

Ludwig, Introduction to Nelson

 

 

Mission & Migration

 

 

Friday,

January 18th:

 

 

 

 

Bevans/Schroeder, 348 -398

Bliese/Van Gelder, 113-137

LWF, Mission in Context: Transformation, Reconciliation, Empowerment (Geneva: LWF 2004).D.P. Niles, 131-180

J. Nestingen/D. Garland/R. Martinson (eds.), Living out Our Callings at Home St. Paul, 2003)

The Role of Mission in the Future of Lutheran Theology

 

Many Gifts – One body: Mission in Partnership

(Living out our callings and coping with diversity)

 

Essay #2: “Visit to local Congregations: Experiences & theological reflections” due1/21

 

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

 

MISSIOLOGY

Amjad-Ali, Charles.  “The Future of Mission: The Subversive Memory of Jesus,” International Review of Mission 79 (July 1990): 345-357.

Anderson, Gerald, The Theology of the Christian Mission (New York 1961)

Banks, Robert.  Reenvisioning Theological Education: Exploring a Missional Alternative to Current Models –

(Eerdmans, 1999).

Bartlett, William.  “For Christ’s Sake, What on Earth is Missio Dei?” Dialog 22 (Winter 1990): 59-60.

Bosch, David J.  Transforming Mission: Paradigm Shifts in Theology of Mission (Orbis, 1991).

Bosch, David J., Witness to the World: The Christian Mission in Theological Perspective  (Atlanta 1980).

Engen, Charles Van, "The Relation of Bible and Mission in Mission Theology" in Charles Van Engen, Deans S. Gilliland, Paul Pierson (eds.), The Good News of the Kingdom: Mission Theology for the Third Millennium (New York, 1993)

Escobar, Samuel.  Changing Tides: Latin America and World Mission Today (Orbis, 2002).

Gensichen, Hans-Werner "Missiology as a Theological Discipline" in Karl Müller, Mission Theology: An Introduction (Nettetal, Germany: 1987), pp. 24-27.

Guder, Darrell L.  The Continuing Conversion of the Church (Eerdmans, 2000).

Guder, Darrell, L., ed.  Missional Church: A Vision for the Sending of the Church in North America (Eerdmans, 1998).

Hahn, Ferdinand,  Mission in the New Testament (Studies in Biblical Theology 47, London, 1965)

Jongeneel, Jan A.B., Philosophy, Science, and Theology of Mission in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: A Missiological Encyclopedia 2 vols. (Frankfurt am Main; New York: 1995-1997).

Kirk, J. Andrew.  What is Mission? Theological Explorations (Fortress Press: 2000).

Larkin, William J Jr & Williams, Joel F. (eds.), Mission in the New Testament: An Evangelical Approach (American Society of Missiologists Series 27;, New York 1998)

P.V. Martinson (ed.), Mission at the Dawn of the 21st Century (Minneapolis 1999)

Muller, Karl.  Dictionary of Mission: Theology, History, Perspectives (Orbis, 1997).

N. Ndiokwere, Prophecy and revolution (London 1981).

Newbigin, Lesslie.  A Word in Season: Perspectives on Christian World Missions (Eerdmans, 1994).

Newbigin, Lesslie.  Foolishness to the Greeks (Eerdmans, 1988).

Newbigin, Lesslie.  The Gospel in a Pluralistic Society (Eerdmans, 1989).

Newbigin, Lesslie.  The Open Secret: An Introduction to the Theology of Mission (Eerdmans, 1995).

Phillips, James M. and Robert T. Coote.  Toward the Twenty-First Century in Christian Mission (Eerdmans, 1993).

Ramachandra, Vinoth The Recovery of Mission: Beyond the Pluralist Paradigm (Carlisle: 1996).

Sanneh, Lamin.  “The Gospel, Language, and Culture: The Theological Method in Cultural Analysis,” International Review of Mission 84 (January-April 1995): 47-64.

Scherer, James A. & Bevans, Stephen B. (eds.), New Directions in Mission and Evangelization 2: Theological Foundations (New York 1994)

Senior, Donald and Stuhlmueller, Carroll: The Biblical Foundations for Mission (London: SCM, 1983)

Shenk, Wilbert R. and William R. Shenk. Changing Frontiers of American Mission (Orbis, 1999).

Shorter, Aylward. Towards a Theology of Inculturation (London, 1988)

R.S. Sugirtharajah (ed.), Voices from the Margin. Interpreting the Bible in the Third World, 1991

Sundermeier, T.: Sundermeier, Theo, „Theologie der Mission“ , in: Müller, K/Sundermeier, T.:, Lexikon missionstheologischer Grundbegriffe (Berlin 1987, 470–493)

Taylor, William David and Ravi K. Zacharias.  Global Missiology for the 21st Century: Reflections from the Iguassu Dialogue (Baker Book House, 2001).

Thomas, Norman.  Classic Texts in Mission and World Christianity: A Reader’s Companion to David Bosch’s Transforming Mission (Orbis, 1995).

Van Engen, Charles, Dean Gilliland, and Paul Pierson, eds.  The Good News of the Kingdom: Mission Theology for the Third Millennium (Orbis, 1993).

Van Gelder, Craig, ed.  Confident Witness—Changing World: Rediscovering the Gospel in North America (Eerdmans, 1999).

Verstraelen, Frans J. et al, eds.  Missiology: An Ecumenical Introduction: Texts and Contexts of Global Christianity (Eerdmans, 1995).

Vicedom, Georg.  Missio Dei: Einfuhrung in eine Theologie der Mission (Kaiser, 1958).

Walls, Andrew and Margaret Act, ed.  “Bibliography on Mission Studies,” International Review of Mission 1997-.

Wrogemann, Henning.: Mission und Religion in der Systematischen Theologie der Gegenwart. Das Missionsverständnis deutschsprachiger protestantischer Dogmatiker im 20. Jahrhundert (Göttingen 1997)

Yates, Timothy  (ed.), Mission - An Invitation to God's Future,  Calver, 2000

Yohannan, K.P., Why the World Waits: Exposing the Reality of Modern Missions, Lake Mary, Florida: (Creation House, 1991)

 

GLOBAL CHRISTIANITY

Adogame. Afe: Celestial Church of Christ (Frankfurt/Bern 1999)

Agbeti, J. .Kofi.  West African Church History, 2 vols. (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1986-91).

Barrett, David B., George T. Kurian and Todd M. Johnson.  World Christian Encyclopedia, 2nd ed.  (Oxford University Press, 2001).

Bediako, Kwame.  Christianity in Africa: The Renewal of Non-Western Religion (Orbis, 1996).

Chidester, David.  Christianity: A Global History  (HarperSan Francisco, 2000).

Clarke, Peter B. West Africa and Christianity (London: E. Arnold, 1986).

Coleman, Simon.  The Globalization of Charismatic Christianity (Cambridge University Press, 2000).

Dussel, Enrique, ed.  The Church in Latin America 1492-1992 (Orbis, 1992).

Eck, Diana L.  A New Religious America: How a “Christian Country” Has Become the World’s Most Religiously Diverse Nation (HarperSan Francisco, 2001).

Emerson, Michael and Christian Smith.  Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America (Oxford University Press, 2001).

Escobar, Samuel.  Changing Tides: Latin America and World Mission Today (Orbis, 2001).

Fabella, Virginia and R. S. Sugirtharajah.  Dictionary of Third World Theology (Orbis, 2000).

Freston, Paul.  Evangelicals and Politics in Asia, Africa, and Latin America (Cambridge University Press, 2001).

Froehle, Bryan T. and Mary L. Gautier.  Global Catholicism: Portrait of a World Church (Orbis, 2001).

Fuller, Robert.  Spiritual But Not Religious: Understanding Unchurched America ( Oxford University Press, 2001).

Fyfe, Christopher and Andrew Walls, eds., Christianity in Africa in the 1990s (Center of African Studies, University of Edinburgh, 1996).

Gifford, Paul, ed.  The Christian Churches and the Democratization of Africa (Brill, 1995).

Gifford, Paul.  African Christianity: Its Public Role (Indiana University Press, 1998).

Gillman, Ian and Hans-Joachim Klimkeit, Christians in Asia Before 1500 (University of Michigan Press, 1999).

Githieya, Francis Kimani.  The Freedom of the Spirit: African Indigenous Churches in Kenya ( Oxford University Press, 1997).

Hall, Douglas Joh.  “Confessing Christ in a Post-Christendom Context,” Ecumenical Review 52 (2000): 410-17.

Hastings, Adrian, ed., A World History of Christianity (Eerdmans, 1999).

Hastings, Adrian.  The Church in Africa, 1450-1950 ( Oxford University Press, 1994).

Hastings, Adrian (ed.), A World History of Christianity (London: Cassell, 1999)

Hoehler-Fatton, Cynthia.  Women of Fire and Spirit: History, Faith, and Gender in Roho Religion in Western Kenya ( Oxford University Press, 1996).

Irvin, Dale T. and Scott W. Sunquist.  History of the World Christian Movement, vol. 1, Earliest Christianity to 1453 (Orbis, 2001).

Isichei, Elizabeth.  A History of Christianity in Africa: From Antiquity to the Present (Eerdmans, 1995).

Jenkins, Philip.  “That New Time Religion,” Chronicles (August 1999): 17-19.

Jenkins, Philip. The Next Christendom. The Coming of Global Christianity (New York 2002).

Koschorke, Klaus: “Christen und Gewürze“: Konfrontation und Interaktion kolonialer und indigener Christentumsvarianten (Göttingen 1998)

Koschorke, Klaus, Transcontinental Links in the History of Non-Western Christianity, 2003

Lewis, David C.  After Atheism: Religion and Ethnicity in Russia and Central Asia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2000).

Ludwig, Frieder. Church & State in Tanzania. Aspects of a Changing Relationship, 1961–1994 (Leiden 1999).

Ludwig, Frieder. “Elijah II. Radicalisation and Consolidation of the Garrick Braide Movement, 1915–1918” Journal of Religion in Africa XXIII/4: 296–317.

Ludwig, Frieder. “Tambaram. The West African Experience”,  Journal of Religion in Africa 31, 2001/1: 49–91.

Ludwig, Frieder. “Gandhi’s India and Nigeria’s Christians”, Swedish Missiological Themes 89, 2001: 41–54.

Moffett, Samuel.  A History of Christianity in Asia, 2nd rev. ed. (Orbis, 1998).

Mugambi, J. N. Kanyua, ed. Critiques of Christianity in African Literature (Nairobi, Kenya: East African Educational Publishers, 1992).

Neill, Stephen.  A History of Christianity in India: The Beginnings to AD 1707 (Cambridge University Press, 1984).

Neill, Stephen. A History of Christian Missions, (Harmondsworth, , 1964)

Neuhaus, Richard J.  “The Religious Century Nears,” Wall Street Journal July 6, 1995.

Norman, Edward.  Christianity and the World Order (Oxford University Press, 1979).

Norman, Edward.  Christianity in the Southern Hemisphere (Oxford University Press, 1981).

Pacini, Andrea, ed., Christian Communities in the Arab World (Oxford University Press, 1998).

Pinn, Anthony B.  The Black Church in the Civil Rights Era (Orbis, 2001).

Poewe, Karla.  Charismatic Christianity as a Global Culture (University of South Carolina: 1994).

Robert, Dana L.  “Shifting Downward,” International Bulletin of Missionary Research 24:2 (2000): 50-58.

Roof, Wade Clark.  Spiritual Marketplace:  Baby Boomers and the Remaking of American Religion  (Princeton University Press, 2001)

Sanneh, Lamin O.  “Global Christianity and the Re-education of the West,” Christian Century 112 (July 1995): 715-718.

Sanneh, Lamin.  “Popular Catholicism in the Emerging Global Church: Convergence and Synthesis,” Popular Catholicism in a World Church, ed. T. Bamat et al (Orbis, 1999): 265-271.

Sanneh, Lamin.  Encountering the West: Christianity and the Global Cultural Process: The African Dimension (Orbix, 1993).

Sanneh, Lamin.  Piety and Power: Muslims and Christians in West Africa (Orbis, 1996).

Sanneh, Lamin.  West African Christianity (Orbis, 1983).

Schreiter, Robert.  The New Catholicity: Theology Between Global and Local (Orbis, 1997).

Spencer, Aida Besancon, William David Spencer, and Alda B. Spencer.  The Global God: Multicultural Evangelical Views of God (Baker Book House, 1998).

Spickard, Paul R. and Kevin M. Cragg, A Global History of Christians: How Everyday Believers Experienced Their World (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 2001).

Standaert, N.  Handbook of Christianity in China: 635-1800 (Handbook of Oriental Studies) (Brill Academic Publishers, 2001).

Stanley, Brian, The Bible and the Flag: Protestant Missions and British Imperialism in the 19th and 20th Centuries (Leicester: 1990).

Sugirtharajah, R. S.  Frontiers in Asian Christian Theology: Emerging Trends (Orbis Books, 1994).

Sundkler, Bengt and Christopher Steed, A History of the Church in Africa (Cambridge University Press, 2000).

Tasie, Godwin O.M: Christian Missionary Enterprise in the Niger Delta (Leiden 1978)

Walls, Andrew F.  “World Christianity, the Missionary Movement, and the Ugly American,” World Order and Religion, ed. Wade Clark Roof (State University of New York Press, 1991): 147-172.

Walls, Andrew.  “Christianity [demographic spread, history, practice: bibliog, diags]” A New Handbook of Living Religions, ed. J. Hinnells (Penguin, 1998) 55-161).

Walls, Andrew.  “The Mission of the Church Today in the Light of Global History,” Word & World 20:1 (Winter 2000): 17-21.

Walls, Andrew,  "Missiological Education in Historical Perspective", J. Dudley Woodberry, Charles Van Engen & Edgar J. Elliston (eds.), Missiological Education for the 21st Century: The Book, the Circles and the Sandals (New York, 1996).

Wessels, Antonie. Europe - Was it Ever Really Christian? (London:  1994)

Wingate, Andrew et al, eds.  Anglicanism: A Global Communion (Mowbray, 1998).

Woodward, Kenneth.  “The Changing Face of the Church,” Newsweek (April 16, 2001).

Wuthnow, Robert.  Christianity in the Twenty-First Century (Oxford, 1993).

Yates, Timothy,  Christian Mission in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge: CUP, 1994)

 

GLOBALIZATION

Barber, Benjamin. Jihad Vs. McWorld (Times Books, 1995).

Berger, Peter and Samuel P. Huntington.  Many Globalizations: Cultural Diversity in the Contemporary World (Oxford University Press, 2002).

Beyer, Peter. Religion and Globalization (London/Thousand Oaks/New Delhi 1994)

Bigelow, Bob and Bob Peterson, eds.  Rethinking Globalization: Teaching for Justice in an Unjust World (Rethinking Schools, Ltd., 2002).

Bonk, Jonathan  “Globalization and Mission Education”, in: Theological Education (Vol. XXX/1, 1993, 47-94).

Brouwer, Steve, Paul Gifford, and Susan D. Rose. Exporting the American Gospel: Global Christian Fundamentalism (Routledge: 1996).

Budde, Michael L.  The (Magic) Kingdom of God: Christianity and Global Culture Industries (Westview Press, 1998).

Friedman, Thomas.  The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization (Anchor Books, 2000).

Huntington, Samuel P.  The Clash of Civilization and the Remaking of World Order (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996).

Moe-Lobeda, Cynthia.  Healing a Broken World: Globalization and God (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2002).

Rowntree, Lester, et al., eds.  Diversity Amid Globalization: World Regions, Environment, Development (Prentice Hall, 1999).

Sassen, Saskia.  Globalization and Its Discontents: Essays on the New Mobility of People and Money (New Press, 1998).

Stackhouse, Max and Diane B. Obenchain.  God and Globalization: Christ and the Dominions of Civilization (Theology for the 21st Century (Trinity Press International, 2001).

Stackhouse, Max and Peter Paris, eds., God and Globalization: Religion and the Powers of Common Life (Trinity Press International, 2000).

Stackhouse, Max, Don Browning, and Peter Paris, eds., God and Globalization, vol. 2 (Morehouse Publishing, 2001).     

Stiglitz, Joseph E.  Globalization and Its Discontents (W. W. Norton & Company, 2002).

 

PENTECOSTALS AND CHARISMATICS

Cox, Harvey.  Fire from Heaven (Addison-Wesley, 1995).

Cleary, Edward L. and Hannah W. Stewart-Gambino, eds. Power, Politics, and Pentecostals in Latin America (Westview, 1997).

Stoll, David.  Is Latin America Turning Protestant? (University of California Press, 1990).

Martin.  Tongues of Fire

Garrard-Burett and David Stoll, eds.  Rethinking Protestantism in Latin America (Temple University Press, 1993).

Cook, Guillermo, ed.  New Face of the Church in Latin America (Orbis, 1994).

Boudewijnse, Barbara et al., eds.  More than Opium (Scarecrow, 1998).

Westmeier, Karl-Wilhelm.  Protestant Pentecostalism in Latin America (Associated University Press, 1999).

Smith, Christian and Joshua Prokopy, eds.  Latin American Religion in Motion (Routledge, 1999).

Shaull, Richard and Waldo A. Cesar.  Pentecostalism and the Future of the Christian Churches (Eerdmans, 2000).

Coleman, Simon.  The Globalization of Charismatic Christianity (Cambridge University Press, 2000).

Poewe, Karla, ed. Charismatic Christianity as a Global Culture (University of South Carolina Press, 1994).

Austin-Broos, Diane J. and Raymond T. Smith.  Jamaica Genesis (University of Chicago Press, 1997).

Freston, Paul.  “Evangelicalism and Politics,” Transformation 4 (1997): 23-29.

 

THEOLOGY OF RELIGIONS

Braaten, Carl.  No Other Gospel (Wipf & Stock, 2001).

Clooney, Francis.  “Comparative Theology: A Review of Recent Books,” Theological Studies 56 (S 1995): 521-550.

Clooney, Francis X.  Hindu God, Christian God: How Reason Helps Break Down the Boundaries Between Religions ( Oxford University Press, 2001).

Cobb, John and Paul F. Knitter.  Transforming Christianity and the World: A Way beyond Absolutism and Relativism (Orbis Books, 1999).

D’Costa, Gavin and Paul F. Knitter.  Christian Uniqueness Reconsidered: Myth of Pluralistic Theology of Religions (Orbis, 1990).

D’Costa, Gavin and Paul Knitter, eds. Meeting of the Religions and the Trinity (Orbis, 2000).

Griffiths, Paul.  Christianity Through Non-Christian Eyes (Orbis, 1990).

Heim, S. Mark and Alan G. Padgett, eds.  The Depths of Riches: A Trinitarian Theology of Religious Ends (Eerdmans, 2000).

Heim, S. Mark.  Ground for Understanding: Ecumenical Resources for Responses to Religious Pluralism (Eerdmans, 1998).

Hick, John and Brian Hebblethwaithe, eds. Christianity and Other Religions (OneWorld Publications, 2001).

Hick, John.  A Christian Theology of Religions: The Rainbow of Faiths (Westminster John Knox, 1995).

Knitter, Paul F.  Jesus and the Other Names: Christian Mission and Global Responsibility (Orbis, 1996).

Knitter, Paul.  Introducing Theologies of Religion (Orbis, 2001).

Pope, Stephen and Charles Hefling, eds.  Sic et Non: Encountering Dominus Iesus (Orbis, 2001).

Robertson, Ronald. Globalization: Social Theory and Global Culture (London 1992)

 

Bibliographies

 

For current, selective bibliographical guidance, students should familiarize themselves with the classified and annotated series “Select Annotated Bibliography of Missiology” inaugurated by book review editor Norman E. Thomas in the January 1986 issue of Missiology. An International Review, Vol. XIV, No 1, pp. 91-92. The series includes the following:

“A. General Works”, by Stephen Peterson and Norman Thomas (Vol. XIV, No. 1, Jan 1986,  91 – 95).

“B. Mission-History” by Dana Robert and Norman Thomas (Vol. XIV, No.2, Apr. 1976,. 235 – 237).

“C. Missions-Theology” by David J. Bosch and Norman Thomas (Vol. XIV, No3, July 1986, pp. 373/376)

“D. Missions-Ecumenical Aspects” by Andrew Walls and Norman Thomas (Vol. XIV, No4, Oct. 1986, 525-527)

“E. Missions-Methods”, by Mary Motte, F.M.M. and Norman Thomas (Vol. XV, No. 1, Jan. 1987, pp. 149-151).

“ F. Christianity and other Religions”, by Paul Knitter and Norman Thomas (Vol. XV, No 2, 1987, pp. 116-118).

“G. Missions-Social Aspects” by P. G. Hiebert, N. Thomas, and T. Zabriskie (Vol. XV, No.3, 1987, 398-401).

“ H. Missions and economic Life,” by Jon Bonk and Norman Thomas (Vol. XV., No 4, Oct. 1987, 556-559.)

“I. Missions and Political life”, by Alan Neely and Norman Thomas (Vol. XVI, No 1, Jan. 1988, 115-118) 

“K. Education and Mission” by Lois McKinney and Norman E. Thomas (Vol. XVI, No. 2, July 1988, 494-496).

“N. Missions and Local Church Renewal” by Howard A. Snyder and N. Thomas (Vol. XVII, No. 2, 244-246).

“O. Spirituality, Worship and Mission”, By Norman E. Thomas (Vol. XVII, No 4, 1989, 491-494).

“P. Africa”, by G. Verstraelen-Gilhuis and N.E. Thomas (Vol. XVII, No. 4, 1989, 491-494(.

“Q. The Americas”, by H. McKenny Goodpasture and N.E. Thomas (Vol. XVIII, No. 1, 1990, 107-110).

“R. Asia”, by David Bundy, James M. Phillips and N.E. Thomas (Vol. XVIII, No. 2, 1990,  237-240).

“S. Europe”, by N.E. Thomas (Vol. XVIII, No. 3, 1990, 377-380).

“T. Oceana”, by Darell L. Whiteman and Norman E. Thomas (Vol. XVIII, No.4, 1990, 500-503).

“Contextualization/Inculturation/Indigenization”, by  S. Bevans and N.E. Thomas (Vol. XIX, 1991, 105-108).

“Women in Missions” by Ruth A Tucker and Norman E. Thomas (Vol. XIX, No.2, 1991, 245-248).

“Third World Urban Mission”, by Timothy Monsma and Terry Bloemsma (Vol. XIX, No. 3, 1991, pp. 365-368).

“The Gospel and Our North American Culture”, by G. Brown et al. (Vol. XIX, No. 4, Oct. 1991, pp. 495-498).

“Missions in Situations of Conflict”, By Carol S. Weir (Vo. XX, No. 1, Jan 1992, 99-102).

“Islamic Studies” by J. Dudley Woodberry (Vol. XX, No3, 1992, 419-422).

 

There is also a very good Cumulative Bibliography of The International Review of Mission published by the Centre for the Study of Christianity in the Non-Western World  http://webdb.ucs.ed.ac.uk/divinity/cmb/.

 

Journals:

 

AD 2000 and beyond

Ecumenical Review

Exchange

Church Growth Bulletin

Indian Missiological Review

International Bulletin of Missionary Research

International Journal of Frontier Mission

International Review of Mission

Journal of Religion

Journal of Religion in Africa

MARC Newsletter

Missiology

Mission Focus

Mission Frontiers

Missionalia

Neue Zeitschrift fuer Missionswissenschaft

Numen

Review of Religion

South Pacific Journal of Mission Studies

Together

Transformation

Zeitschrift fuer Mission

Zeiitschrift fuer Missionswissenschaft und Religionswissenschaft

 

Missiological Reference Tools:

 

Barrett, David B., World Christian Encyclopedia: A Comparative Survey of Churches and Religions in the Modern World A.D. 1900-2000, Nairobi: Oxford University Press, 1982, 2000.

Burgess, Stanley M. & Gary B. McGee (eds), Concise Dictionary of the Christian World Mission (Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, 1988)>

Burgess, Stanley M. & Gary B. McGee (eds), Dictionary of Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements (Grand Rapids, Zondervan Publishing House, 1988)

Directory: North American Protestant Schools and Professors of Mission (Monrovia, California: Missions Advance Research and Communication Centre, 1982)

Mueller, Karl/Sundermeier/Theo/Bevans, Stephen B./Bliese, Richard H., Dictionary of Mission. Theology, History, Perspectives. New York: Orbis,1997)

 

 

Web Sites:

 

http://www.asmweb.org/links.htm: Important links for research in Mission and World Christianity

http://www.worldchristiandatabase.org/wcd: The World Christian Database (WCD) represents the core data from the World Christian Encyclopedia (WCE) and World Christian Trends (WCT). The WCD includes detailed information on 34,000 Christian denominations and on religions in every country of the world. Extensive data are available on 238 countries and 13,000 ethnolinguistic peoples, as well as data on 7,000 cities and 3,000 provinces. Statistics in the WCD represent a significant update of the data published in WCE/WCT in 2001. WCD is an initiative of the Center for the Study of Global Christianity at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.

http://religion-cults.com/art.htm and  http://www.biblia.com/jesusm/: Religious and biblical Art Galleries

http://www.imagesonline.bl.uk. Art Gallery

 http://www.dacb.org/index.html: Dictionary of African Christian Biography

http://www.religion-online.org/listbycategory.asp?Cat=4   Full texts by recognized mission scholars on the Nature of Mission

http://www.prec-online.com/  The mission maps are under data/ missions data/ Protestant mission Stations.   If you run your mouse over the dates, a map of the distribution of Protestant mission stations will pop up for each year.

http://research.yale.edu:8084/divdl/adhoc/subjects.jsp?subjectid=791: Historical Maps and other documents

http://www.bmpix.org/ Important collection of photos by the Basel Mission.

http://www.usc.edu/isd/archives/arc/digarchives/mission/ - more photos

http://www.library.yale.edu/div/yaleedin.htm yale/edinburgh group on history of mission.

http://www.library.yale.edu/div/MissionsResources.htm Important links

http://www.missionaryetexts.org/  Historical texts

http://ricci.rt.usfca.edu/archive/index.aspx This section contains institutions of archival resources on Christianity in China (including Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao).

http://www.earlychristianwritings.com : contains sources on mission in the early church.

http://www1.ttcn.ne.jp/~africanhistory/links.htm: links to sites on African religions, African history, African societies

http://www.missionstudies.org/4groups/PADOH/archives.htm. Guides to Mission archives.

http://www.gospelcom.net/dacb/ Dictionary of African Christian Biography

http://research.yale.edu:8084/missionperiodicals/index.jsp Missionary Periodicals Database

Statistics:
http://www.missionfrontiers.org/newslinks/statewe.htm
http://www.uscwm.org/mobilization_division/pastors_web_folder/global_mission_statistics.html

 

http://www.ocmc.org/   Orthodox Mission

 

http://www.kb.dk/elib/mss/poma/index-en.htm Guaman Poma de Ayala –  Chronicles (fascinating!

 

http://www.ttc.edu.sg/csca.htm: The Centre for the Study of Christianity in Asia (CSCA), Trinity Theological College, Singapore is developing a website to assist researchers and Christian communities in the Singapore-Malaysia, Indonesia and Indochina regions in studying their local histories. I have so far posted listings of Christian material available in public institutions and theological colleges in Singapore

 

http://www.ttc.edu.sg/csca/CS/CS.htm Journal “Church and Society”

 

http://marty-center.uchicago.edu/sightings/archive_2005/0418.shtml

 

http://www.newbigin.net/ Newbigin.Net is a dynamic searchable database concerned with the writings and life of Bishop J.E. Lesslie Newbigin. It includes both a comprehensive bibliography of his writings and a wide-ranging collection of texts written by him - over two hundred in all. It also contains some significant interactions with his thought.

http://www.geocities.com/missionalia/sams.htm Website of the Southern African Missiological Society.

 

http://www.geocities.com/missionalia/aic.htm

 

African Initiated Churches (AICs) are the fastest-growing Christian groups in many parts of Africa. This page gives some introductory information about them, a list of AIC researchers, and links for some articles where more information can be found.

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/globalvoices/?p=92   Global Voices Online

http://www.martynmission.cam.ac.uk/BArticles.htm useful academic articles

http://www.ocmc.org/ Orthodox Christian Mission Centre

 

http://www.etaglobalministries.org/Links.html: lists many independent and non-denominational organizations.

 

http://www.aecg.de/ Website of Prof. Klaus Koschorke in Munich with some information on African, Asian and Latin American Church History.

 

www.francke-halle.de/main/index2.php?cf=3_1_3_3_2  The Franckesche Stiftungen zu Halle has digitized the so-called Halle reports and other documents concerning the Danish-Halle Mission.

http://www.wheaton.edu/bgc/archives/berlin66.htm   The Billy Graham Center Archives has announced the availability of audio recordings, texts of papers, and photographs from the 1966 World Congress on Evangelism, held in West Berlin, Germany. 

 http://www.library.yale.edu/div/Gujarat.html.  A guide to the Archives of the Irish Presbyterian Mission in Gujarat, which are held at Gujarat United School of Theology. Yale Divinity Library is trying to make arrangements to microfilm/digitize these archives in order to preserve them and make them more accessible to researchers.

http://www.library.yale.edu/div/missionsmicroform.pdf.: An updated list of selected archival collections available in microfilm or microfiche format at the Yale Divinity Library (and thereby available via interlibrary loan).