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International Bulletin of Missionary Research, Vol 36, No. 4 Vol. 36, No. 4 October 2012 Mission in Bold Humility ew writers in the English language have conveyed so vividly nise pride when we see it, we stand aghast to see the havoc the sin of pride as Dorothy Sayers: wrought by the triumphs of human idealism. We meant well, F we thought we were succeeding—and look what has come of But the head and origin of all sin is the basic sin of Superbia or our efforts! There is a proverb which says that the way to hell Pride. In one way there is so much to say about Pride that one is paved with good intentions. We usually take it as referring might speak of it for a week and not have done. Yet in another to intentions that have been weakly abandoned; but it has a way, all there is to be said about it can be said in a single sentence. deeper and much subtler meaning. That road is paved with It is the sin of trying to be as God. It is the sin which proclaims good intentions strongly and obstinately pursued, until they that Man can produce out of his own wits, and his own impulses become self-sufficing ends in themselves and deified. Continued next page On Page 179 Robert Wuthnow and World Christianity: A Response to Boundless Faith Mark Shaw 184 James M. Phillips, 1929–2012 185 Ivan Illich and Leo Mahon: Folk Religion and Satan Calling Up Catechesis in Latin America His Legions Todd Hartch Watercolor 189 Da‘wah: Islamic Mission and Its Current illustration Implications by Albrecht Hauser William Blake, 196 Said’s Orientalism and Pentecostal Views of 1807, Islam in Palestine for Paradise Lost, Eric N. Newberg John Milton’s 200 Radio Missions: Station ELWA in West Africa epic poem Timothy Stoneman 206 My Pilgrimage in Mission http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/41/ParadiseLButts1.jpg Samuel Escobar and his own imagination the standards by which he lives: that 208 Noteworthy Man is fitted to be his own judge. It is Pride which turns man’s 212 Revisiting the Legacy of Mary Josephine Rogers virtues into deadly sins, by causing each self-sufficient virtue to Claudette LaVerdiere issue in its own opposite, and as a grotesque and horrible trav- esty of itself. 216 Book Reviews For the devilish strategy of Pride is that it attacks us, not on 227 Dissertation Notices our weak points, but on our strong. It is preeminently the sin of the noble mind—that corruptio optimi which works more evil in 228 Index the world than all the deliberate vices. Because we do not recog- 240 Book Notes Sin grows with doing good . of his generation was as relentless in calling unflattering atten- Servant of God has chance of greater sin tion to Western mission foibles as he. I read Illich’s Celebration And sorrow, than the man who serves a king. of Awareness as a graduate student in the fall of 1970. The much For those who serve the greater cause may make the cause underlined and annotated copy of the book on my shelves hints serve them, at its impact on my thinking. As the war in Vietnam laid bare the Still doing right.1 illegitimacy of America’s cause and the futility of the means, his With support from texts such as Isaiah 14:12–20, theologians preamble to chapter 2 was especially striking to my young mind. have generally agreed that the mother of all sins—Lucifer’s “The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait,” he folly—is pride. We human beings have proven sadly receptive wrote. “Only North Americans seem to believe that they always to the Great Deceiver’s DNA. Pride of race, nation, clan, religion, should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to profession, and accomplishment flourish in the fertile soil of share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing individual and collective egocentrism. Perhaps, as Sayers sug- people into the acceptance of gifts.”2 While there is some truth in gested and as Jesus’ encounters with the professionally pious Illich’s assertion, his is not the whole truth. Christians, whether of his day proved, it is especially the prestigiously pious among Americans or not, can never be satisfied with passive acceptance us who reveal pride’s most hideously debilitating malformities. of a neighbor’s misfortune when it lies in their power to do good. Mark Shaw’s irenic response to Robert Wuthnow’s book Far from being a peculiarly American trait, active pursuit of the Boundless Faith: The Global Outreach of American Churches (2009) well-being of others is the quintessential pattern of behavior that reminds us of the American conceit that “we are still the center separates “sheep” from “goats” on judgment day (Matt. 25:31–46). of the show.” Long held to be a self-evident political, economic, Whatever the thrust of Christian missionary labors—whether and military truth, this delusion has too often infected Christian incarnation among Muslims or disembodied voices over the air- mission. Any pride, including religious, requires comparison. waves—genuine humility is not only appropriate but essential We human beings are comparative creatures, knowing who (Mark 10:41–45). Mission, in line with the wise counsel of the late we are and where we fit, principally by measuring ourselves David Bosch, is a life of adventure that requires bold humility. against others. Pride is so woven into the warp and woof of —Jonathan J. Bonk our lives that we are scarcely conscious of it. Theologically self- assured missionaries in the days of Jesus received his stinging Notes condemnation: “You cross sea and land to make a single convert, 1. Dorothy Sayers, The Other Six Deadly Sins: An Address Given to the and you make the new convert twice as much a child of hell Public Morality Council at Caxton Hall, Westminster, on October 23rd, as yourselves” (Matt. 23:15). We can be sure that this was not 1941 (London: Methuen, 1943), pp. 26–27. Sayers ends this passage what those missionaries set out to do! with lines from T. S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral. This brings me to Ivan Illich (1926–2002), a major focus—and 2. Ivan Illich, Celebration of Awareness (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, foil—in Todd Hartch’s article. No other Christian intellectual 1970), p. 19. Editor Jonathan J. Bonk InternatIonal BulletIn of MIssIonary research Senior Associate Editor Established 1950 by R. Pierce Beaver as Occasional Bulletin from the Missionary Research Library. Named Occasional Bulletin Dwight P. Baker of Missionary Research in 1977. Renamed International Bulletin of Missionary Research in 1981. Published quarterly in January, April, July, and October by the Overseas Ministries Study Center, 490 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06511 Associate Editor (203) 624-6672 • Fax (203) 865-2857 • [email protected] • www.internationalbulletin.org J. Nelson Jennings Contributing Editors Assistant Editors Catalino G. Arévalo, S.J. Darrell L. Guder Anne-Marie Kool Brian Stanley Craig A. Noll Daniel H. Bays Philip Jenkins Steve Sang-Cheol Moon Tite Tiénou Rona Johnston Gordon Stephen B. Bevans, S.V.D. 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(iSSn 0272-6122) 178 International Bulletin of Missionary Research, Vol. 36, No. 4 Robert Wuthnow and World Christianity: A Response to Boundless Faith Mark Shaw he year 2002 produced two religious monographs that The new paradigm to which Wuthnow objects tells a story Tattracted a great deal of public attention.
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