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Of Lss10nary Scarch Vol. 13, No.1 nternatlona• January 1989 etln• Mission in the 1990s n this issue we inaugurate a new series, "Mission in Barrett again provides his invaluable annual statistical table on global I the 1990s." Ten years ago the BULLETIN ran a similar series, mission. Vivienne Stacey recalls the incredible work of Thomas Valpy but this time around twice as many authors will contribute, with French, and M. M. Thomas looks back on his own pilgrimage in most issues between now and October 1990 carrying two essays. mission that has been as tempestuous as it has been productive. The opening articles in this issue, by an evangelical and a Roman "Where there is no vision, the people perish" (Prov. 29:18). Catholic, illustrate both the richness and the disparity of thought as We endeavor to catch a vision of the future of mission that will draw we enter the last decade of the Christian mission in the twentieth us forward with confidence and integrity. century. Arthur F. Glasser begins the series by reviewing the momentum and the potentially divisive issues that characterize the worldwide evangelical community. Its cohesiveness is found in Christology, commitment to Scripture, and evangelizing fervor. The dangers are symbolized by the walls that have been raised between various groupings of evangelicals. Movements such as the Lausanne Com­ On Page mittee for World Evangelization and the World Evangelical Fellow­ ship serve as bridge-builders and catalysts for world witness. But even here different emphases and styles exist that, in Glasser's view, 2 Mission in the 1990s: Two Views are problematical. The tension between charismatics and nonchar­ I. Arthur F. Glasser ismatics is sharply drawn, and our author also registers concern II. Michael Amaladoss, 5./. about two issues that the larger evangelical community says little or 11 The Anxious Climate of Concern for Missionary nothing about: the danger that jingoistic nationalism will erode the Children witness of the evangelical community, particularly in the United Ted Ward States; and the danger that China's much-touted evangelism explo­ 13 Strategies for Dealing with Crisis in Missionary sion may lead to an overwhelmingly peasant-based church charac­ Kid Education terized by "uneven mixtures of biblical faith and animistic folk David C. Pollock religion." Michael Amaladoss's perspectiveon mission in the 1990sreflects 20 Annual Statistical Table on Global Mission: 1989 a holistic Catholic stance, giving substantial attention to issues of David B. Barrett justice, dialogue, and liberation. Amaladoss's controlling motif is 22 The Legacy of Thomas Valpy French the coming kingdom: "In Jesus we have an assurance of a new Vivienne Stacey world .... It is God's gift, but also our task. The task of mission is ~oteworthy precisely to make present the inspiration and power of Jesus and 24 the Spirit in the movement of history toward its fulfillment." 28 My Pilgrimage in Mission These opening essays whet the appetite for more to come: other M.M.Thomas Catholic representatives will include Barbara Hendricks, Thomas F. 31 Book Reviews Stransky, and Catalino J. Arevalo; other evangelicals such as C. Rene Padilla and Ralph D. Winter; and a variety from all quarters and 37 Fifteen Outstanding Books of 1988 for Mission communions of the globe-Anna Marie Aagaard, David J. Bosch, Studies Emilio Castro, Lesslie Newbigin, Young Kim Sawa, Desmond Tutu, 46 Dissertation Notices from the University of Johannes Verkuyl, Anastasios Yannoulatos. Birmingham, England, 1985-1988 Also in this issue, Ted Ward and David C. Pollock present two studies dealing with vital questions about missionary children. David 48 Book Notes of lss10nary• • scarch INTRODUCING A NEW SERIES Mission in the 1990s: Two Views I. Arthur F. Glasser In the closing decade of the twentieth century, evangelicals will play vere Deus and vere Homo. He possesses all that makes God, God­ a major role. In this article we shall attempt to describe their mis­ and all that makes man, man. There is no possibility of modifying sionary involvement and to suggest where they will be at the end this Christology in the direction of the speculations of John Hick, of the century. This is a daunting assignment; I can only plead the Paul Knitter, Norman Pittenger, and so forth. Evangelicals hold, and apostle Paul's caution, namely, that we see dimly, having only par­ will continue to hold, all the implications of Paul's witness to Jesus: tial knowledge (1 Cor. 13:12). "Though he was rich, yet for our sakes he became poor, so that Evangelicals have a growing awareness of their size and strength. by his poverty we might become rich" (2 Cor. 8:9). "He is the They have much empirical evidence to bolster the venturesome elan image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation; for in him currently surging through their ranks. At the same time, some of all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, their leaders fear that the worldwide evangelical community could whether thrones or dominions or principalitiesor authorities----all things lose its spiritual cohesion if certain troublesome issues are not sat­ were created through him and for him" (Col. 1:15-16). Evangelicals isfactorily resolved. affirm the confession of Thomas before the risen Christ: "My But who are these people? Evangelicals represent a movement Lord and my God!" On. 20:23), and treasure the response of the that defies precise definition. They do not constitute a particular Savior: "Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed institution, but rather, an amorphous movement that exists in prac­ are those who have not seen and yet believe" (20:29). Because of evangelical commitment to Scripture and to its un­ wavering witness to Jesus of Nazareth as the Christ of God, we can "The intensity with confidently state that in the 1990sand beyond, evangelicals will not waver or deviate on two touchstone issues: evangelistic concern for which evangelicals adhere the Jewish people, and the uniqueness of Christ in the midst of to these theological religious pluralism. We begin by examining these two unalterables. postulates should not be Witness to the Jews underestimated.II The days ahead will mark a steady enlargement of the evangelical witness to the Jewish community worldwide concerning Jesus of tically every Protestant tradition within the worldwide Christian Nazareth, the Servant Messiah of Israel and the Savior of the world. church, a movement having a religious identity characterized by the Recent steps taken in England to strengthen the Anglican Church's term "evangelicalism." Years ago Max Warren, then leader of the Ministry to the Jews (CMJ, already 179 years old) and the formation Church Missionary Society, offered a helpful definition of evangel­ of CMJIUSAin 1982 are cases in point. This agency is actively pro­ icalism when he said (1962, p. 1) that it consists of "a particular moting the formation of Messianic Jewish gatherings as well as en­ balance" in the following cluster of biblical themes: (1)unquestioned couraging Jewish believers in Jesus to enrich the life, worship, and submission to the trustworthiness and authority of Scripture as the witness of the American Episcopal communion. It is only one among Word of God; (2) the essentiality of the atonement of Christ; (3) an more than sixty evangelical groups in America so engaged. existential saving encounter with the Holy Spirit; and (4)a concern This evangelical witness to the Jews raises two fundamental for the proper, scriptural use of the sacraments. Most evangelicals biblical issues. First, who is Jesus of Nazareth? What of his claims would add the obligation to evangelize non-Christians throughout for himself and the messianic signs that accompanied his ministry? the world. Second, what does the Old Testament promise? One cannot read the law, the prophets, and the writings without entering into the Theological Non-Negotiables yearning of its writers for the coming of a universal faith for all peoples, centered in the worship of the God of Abraham, Isaac, and The intensity with which evangelicals adhere to these theological Jacob and provided by a son of David. This faith has its rootage in postulates should not be underestimated. They are not negotiable. the universal dimensions of the Abrahamic covenant and will be As a result we can confidently predict that in the next decade there expressed by the realities uniquely revealed at Sinai and never re­ will be no erosion of commitment from an unqualified acceptance scinded. Only the New Testament in its fullness reveals the Davidic of Chalcedonian Christology. Evangelicals bow to the mystery of the Savior and fulfills the yearning for this universal faith. Increasingly incarnation of the pre-existent Son of God. Jesus of Nazareth is both Jews are being drawn to these actualities, and the evangelical wit­ ness to the Jewish people will steadily increase in the days ahead. Arthur F. Glasser is Dean Emeritus, School of World Mission, Fuller Theological Religious Pluralism Seminary, Pasadena, California. He was a missionary to China, 1946-51, with China Inland Mission, and later was home director for Overseas Missionary This brings us to the growing phenomenon of religious pluralism. Fellowship in the U.S.A. Throughout the world today and increasingly in the days ahead, 2 International Bulletin of Missionary Research every city is the locus of competing truth claims and radically diverse answers to the universal religious quest of people. Paul Knitter ar­ International Bulletin gues that Christians should settle for a "unitive pluralism of all of Missionary Research religions"; they should be polite enough to regard all other religions with respectful good grace and work for tolerant coexistence. Chris­ Established 1950 by R. Pierce Beaver as Occasional Bulletin from the Missionary tians should be done with championing and propagating their own Research Library.
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