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International Bulletin of Missionary Research, Vol 38, No. 4 Vol. 38, No. 4 October 2014 Mission and Contexts person’s understanding of Christian mission—whether Andrew Eason analyzes the interrelation between William Booth’s A as evangelism, evangelization, witness, proclamation, practice of mission through the Salvation Army and the specific prophetic dialogue, service, or whatever else—is inexorably influences of his nineteenth-century life setting. intertwined with that person’s context(s). Likewise with any- We can see the inherently interrelated character of “mission” one’s practice or reception of mission. The significance of context and “contexts” as well in recent major statements on Christian applies also to a whole people’s understanding, practice, and mission, including three associated with the gatherings commem- reception of Christian mission. Our multifaceted settings shape orating the centenary of the 1910 Edinburgh World Missionary how mission is conceived, conveyed, and caught. Continued next page I do not anticipate much pushback from readers of the Inter- national Bulletin of Missionary Research on this claim. I would not be surprised, however, to find a range of viewpoints On Page 171 Intercultural Theology Is a Must Volker Küster 177 Revival Preaching and the Indigenization of Christianity in Republican China Gloria S. Tseng 183 The Strategy of a Missionary Evangelist: How William Booth Shaped the Salvation Army’s Earliest Work at Home and Abroad Andrew M. Eason 188 The Missio Dei in Contemporary Context Thomas Kemper 191 A Missiological Reflection on “Together towards Life: Mission and Evangelism in Changing Landscapes” www.wga.hu Madge Karecki 193 “Together towards Life: Mission and Evangelism Apostle Paul Preaching on the Ruins in Changing Landscapes” Giovanni Paolo Pannini, 1744 Samuel Escobar about the relative importance of the universal meaning of Chris- 195 “Together towards Life”: Catholic Perspectives tian mission versus contextually particular sensibilities about Stephen B. Bevans what mission involves. 198 My Pilgrimage in Mission David Bosch persuasively demonstrated the point about Juan (John) Stam 202 The Legacy of Charles W. Forman mission’s contextual particularity through tracing the way the Charles W. Forman church’s understanding and practice of mission have been shaped 207 The Legacy of Samuel J. Mills Jr. by the various milieus in which it has carried out mission. In David B. Raymond this issue of the IBMR, Volker Küster advocates “intercultural 209 Noteworthy theology” as necessary to avoid truncated, contextually confined 212 Book Reviews views of mission (or of anything else). Gloria Tseng brings to light 222 Dissertation Notices “the historical peculiarities of the indigenization of Christianity 224 Book Notes in China during the early decades of the twentieth century.” 225 Index (online only, HTML and PDF) Conference.TheTokyo2010“Declaration,”issuedby“representa- and Evangelism in Changing Landscapes,” announced by the tives of evangelical global mission structures,” included a pledge World Council of Churches (WCC) at its Busan Assembly. (See of “finishing the task” of “making disciples of every people inour the four reflections on this document in this issue.) A statement generation.” The document’s specific notions of people groups, of sweeping breadth, it presents a “broad appeal, even wider “reaching” such groups, measurable progress, and “finishable than WCC member churches and affiliated mission bodies, so task”arisefromthatgathering’sshareduniverse,onedevelopedin that we can commit ourselves together to fullness of life for all, apost-Enlightenmentcontextthatlentcredencetosuchconcepts. led by the God of Life!” The document arose from the ecumenical We must also note the galvanizing effect of the year a.d. 2000 on movement’s historical backdrop, but because of Christianity’s this energetic movement. Second, the Edinburgh 2010 “Common worldwide growth and multicentered points of gravity, it incor- Call” was affirmed by “representatives of world Christianity, porated input from streams not connected to the WCC—most including Catholic, Evangelical, Orthodox, Pentecostal, and especially Roman Catholic and evangelical voices. Finally, Pope Protestant churches,” which reflects the ecumenical movement Francis’s apostolic exhortation Evangelii gaudium (Joy of the and its complex seedbed of origins, including Euro-American Gospel) is paradoxically both the most comprehensive and the imperialism. Finally, the evangelical 2010 “Cape Town Com- most specific of all the recent statements in terms of the address- mitment,” arising from more interdisciplinary and worldwide ees. It invites “all Christians, everywhere, at this very moment, contextual connections than its Tokyo 2010 counterpart, was “a to a renewed personal encounter with Jesus Christ,” even as it confession of faith and a call to action,” offered in the hope that aims to “encourage the [Catholic] Christian faithful to embark evangelicals as well as “churches of all traditions” might find it upon a new chapter of evangelization.” Evangelii gaudium also helpfultowardtheoverarchingendthatChristianswould“make contains specific appeals to the world’s political and economic disciples” and “love one another.” Each of these 2010 gatherings decision-makers and to various levels of the Catholic Church reflects distinctive elements of the twentieth-century settings in hierarchy, and it closes with a prayer to Mary, the “Mother of which they were birthed. Evangelization.” Numerous contextual marks—of Francis him- Three other major statements, each from the fall of 2013, self, of a long-cultivated Catholic sense of public responsibility, similarly show their contextual marks. The fortieth-anniversary and of the current historical moment of the global economy and declaration by the Asia Missions Association (AMA) touches on of worldwide Catholicism—are abundantly evident. five topics associated with the conference theme, “Discipleship Christian mission—with whatever terms we may choose to in the Twenty-First-Century Mission.” While also showing the characterize it—is inexorably intertwined with context. Consider AMA’s distinctively evangelical ethos, the statement reflects the howthisfactor,alongwithitsinherentuniversalandnormativetraits, organization’s historical and other contextual sensibilities in the is exemplified afresh in this issue’s insightful and varied analyses. assertion that heretofore “foreign patterns” of mission practice —J. Nelson Jennings must be eschewed for ones that are “authentically Asian” (topic Note: Web addresses for the mission statements discussed are available in 5). The second statement is “Together towards Life: Mission the October 2014 HTML edition online at www.internationalbulletin.org. InternatIonal BulletIn of MIssIonary research Established 1950 by R. Pierce Beaver as Occasional Bulletin from the Missionary Research Library. Named Occasional Bulletin of Missionary Research in 1977. Renamed International Bulletin of Missionary Research in 1981. 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