education in the CIS, sponsored by Overseas Council on Theo­ want ready-made Western Christianity to be dumped on us"; logical Education, the Institute for East-West Christian Studies, "We would love to have the tools, and then we will work it out and Russian Ministries, a sampling of comments by nationals for ourselves."!? indicated the desire for partnership with the West while at the Respect therightsofall religions and cooperate with otherChris­ same time avoiding Westernization. "We want to know what is tians whenever possible. Foreign missionaries-even when their going on . . . what is available"; "We do not want everything to own legal and religious rights are violated-must model respect be given to us, but we must know what is available"; "We do not for all religions. If national and foreign evangelicals are to expe- Noteworthy------­

Mission Scholarship Grants Clifford W. Putney, Bentley College, USA: "The Missionary The Overseas Ministries Study Center, New Haven, Con­ Gulicks: An Evangelical Dynasty, 1827-1963" necticut, announces the 1998 grantees of the Research Peter Riddell, London Bible College, UK: "Christians in Indo­ Enablement Program. Nineteen scholars representing India, nesia and Egypt: The Impact of the Islamic Resurgence" New Zealand, Nigeria, the People's Republic of China, South K. Thanzauva, EasternTheological College, India: "Christian­ Africa, South Korea, the United Kingdom, and the United ity and Tribal Culture in India:A Study of How the Tribal States received awards for projects in the study of the world Culture Has Influenced and Indigenized Christianity in Christian movement. The Research Enablement Program is India" funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts, Philadelphia, Pennsyl­ NianqunYang, PekingUniversity,People's RepublicofChina: vania, and administered by OMSC. The grants, which will be "MedicalMissionariesand SocialChangein China, 1830s­ dispensed for work in the 1998-1999 academic year, total 1930s" $297,000. Gerald H. Anderson, OMSC' s director who also serves as International Research for Doctoral Dissertations director of the REP and chair of the Review and Selection Charles E. Farhadian, Boston University, USA: "A Social Committee states, "The task of the Committee becomes in­ History of Central Dani in New Order Indonesia: An creasingly difficult as the program attracts a growing number Examinationof Western Missionsand Modern Dani Iden­ of scholars engaged in the interdisciplinary study of the world tity in a Plural World" Christian movement, especially promising younger scholars Brian M. Howell, Washington University, USA: "Reaching from the non-Western world." Out: Philippine Protestants in a Global Context" This year the REP received 130 applications from 37 Eric H. Lindland, Emory University, USA: "Baptist Institu­ different countries. Twenty percent of the applicants were tions in the Congo: Personal Meanings of Church, School women, and over fifty percent were citizens outside Europe and Hospital" and NorthAmerica.The granteesrepresenta varietyofeccIesiaI Sung Deuk Oak, Boston University School of Theology, USA: communities. "Toward Indigenous Korean Christianity:ModerateEvan­ The REP is designed to support both younger scholars gelical Mission Theology of the American Missionaries in undertaking international research for doctoral dissertations Korea, 1884-1914" and established scholars engaged in major writing projects Scholarly Consultations on World Christianity dealing with the world Christian movement and its interac­ Stephen W. Kidd, University of St. Andrews, UK: "Indig­ tion with the public sphere, especially in the non-Western enous Peoples of the Chaco, Christian Missions and the world. The 1998 grantees listed by category are as follows : Nation-State" Sze-kar Wan, Andover Newton Theological School, USA: Postdoctoral Book Research and Writing "Chinese Christian BiblicalCommentarialTraditions:An Daryl M. Balia, University of Durban-Westville,SouthAfrica: International Collaborative Investigation of Resources, "Purveyor of Culture: The American Zulu Mission in Methods, and Interpretation" South Africa, 1835-1912" Andrew E. Barnes, Arizona State University, USA: '''Making Projects for Locating, Preserving, Cataloging, and Making Headway': Christian Missions and the Introduction of Accessible Collections of Non-Western Research Materials Western Civilization in Northern Nigeria" LancelotPrabhu,S.J.,St. Xavier's College, India:"A Rev.N.V. Philip J. Gibbs, Holy Spirit Regional Seminary, Papua New Tilak Archives Project" Guinea: "Melanesian Spirituality Project" Emma L. Wild, Institut Superieur Theologique Anglican, Michelle V. Gilbert, independent scholar, USA: "The Letters Kenya: "The AnglicanChurchin Congo (Zaire):Location, of Theophilus Opku, a Nineteenth-Century Gold Coast Preservation and Making Accessible Research Materials" Pastor" P. Daniel Jeyaraj, Gurukul Lutheran Theological College, Announcing India: "Christian Frederick Swartz: A Missionary States­ The annual meeting of the American Society of Missiology man" will be held June 19-21, 1998, at Techny (near Chicago), PhyllisM. Martin,Indiana University, USA:"CatholicWomen Illinois .The theme is "Tools of the Trade: Missiological Refer­ and Missionary Nuns in Twentieth-Century Congo" ence for Church, Academy, and Missionary." Andrew F. ChristopherO.ashun, LagosState University,Nigeria: "Prayer Walls will give the keynote address. Jonathan J. Bonk of the and Healing: Determinants of Aladura Spirituality" Overseas Ministries Study Center, New Haven, Connecticut,

58 INTERNATIONAL BULLETIN OF MISSIONARY R ESEARCH rience true religious liberty, so must all other religious groups of Russians have said they do not want. Nevertheless, a chari­ whose activities are law-abiding. (Of course, such toleration does table evangelical response wouldbe to assist in strengthening the not preclude defense of freedoms when they are violated.)" voice and witness of Orthodoxy in any way possible-even as Mark Elliott and Kent Hill, president of Eastern Nazarene evangelicals maintain the position that no single Christian con­ College, encourage evangelicals to appreciate and support the fession alone can reach all of Russia for Christ."19 Russian Orthodox Church. "Evangelicals, ... see a privileged Proclaim theGospel in wordanddeed. Humanitarian aid that is status for Orthodoxy as a tsarist throwback that a clear majority part of Christian missions needs to be given without coercion to

is the ASM president. The Association of Professors of Mis­ ship), Michell was interned during World War II in a Japanese sion will meetJune 18-19 at the same place. The theme of their prisoner-of-war camp in China along with Eric Liddell, the meeting is "Methods of Practical Education for Holistic Mis­ Olympic athlete whose story is told in the film Chariots ofFire. sion." Roger Schroeder, S.V.D., of the Catholic Theological After ministering in Japan and New Zealand, Michell became Union, Chicago, is president of the APM. For further informa­ director of OMF Canada in 1975until he retired from that post tion and registration for both meetings, contact Darrell L. in 1993 to become OMF director for Ontario. In 1992 he Guder,ColumbiaTheologicalSeminary,P.O.Box520,Decatur, published a biography, TheSpiritofEric Liddell, and he chaired Georgia 30031-0520 (Fax: 404-377-9696). the Eric Liddell Foundation. In 1995 he was permitted by A core group of Catholic missiologists, made up of the China to place a wreath on Liddell's grave. missiological faculties of the Gregorian and Urbanian Univer­ Died. EdwardJ.Malatesta,S.J.,65,internationallyknown sities, Rome, and representatives from Catholic missiological biblical scholar and historian of the church and Jesuits in faculties in Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, and South China, in Hong Kong, on January 27, 1998. An American America, has met several times during the last two years to Jesuit, Father Malatesta first gained renown as a biblical explore the possibility of establishing an International Asso­ scholar when he was a professor at the Gregorian University ciationof Catholic Missiologists (IACM). The scope of IACM in Rome from 1966 to 1977, specializing in the Letters of St. will be to promote the study and research of missiological John. In the late 1970s he shifted his interests to research on the issues in preparation for the third millennium. The general Jesuits and the church in China, and in 1984 he cofounded the perspective will be Catholic, but ecumenical and interreli­ Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History at the Univer­ gious perspectives will also receive attention. Membership is sity of San Francisco, which was later named for Matteo Ricci, open to all individual Catholics who are specialists in pioneer Italian Jesuit missionary to China. A friend com­ missiology and related subjects. There will also be institu­ mented, "I find an almost poetic justice in the fact that Fr. tional members. For further information, contact: Secretary, Malatesta died on Chinese soil. He would have wanted noth­ IACM Core-group, Pontificia Universita Urbaniana; Via ing more than to die as he had lived, building one last bridge Urbano VIII, 16; 00165 Rome, Italy (Fax: 39-6-69-88-18-71). between China and the West in the spirit of Matteo Ricci, the Jesuit giant who inspired his life work." Personalia Died. William A. Smalley, 74, missionary linguist and We send special greetings to Johannes Verkuyl in the Nether­ anthropologist, December 16, 1997, in New Haven, Connecti­ lands, who was 90 on January 16, 1998. Professor Verkuyl is cut. Sent to Laos in 1950 by the Christian and Missionary well known as a Dutch missionary statesman: for his twenty­ Alliance, he helped to devise a writing system for the Hmong four years of missionary service in Indonesia, his period from language. He served as a translation consultant for the Ameri­ 1963 to 1968 as general secretary of the Netherlands Mission­ can Bible Society, 1954-56, and for the United Bible Societies in ary Council, and his tenure as professor of missiology at the Asia and the Pacific, 1969-77. From 1956 to 1962 he was Free University of Amsterdam until he retired in 1978.The 66 principal of the Toronto Institute of Linguistics. He was pro­ booksandsome400articles he has writtenin theareas of social fessor of linguistics at Bethel College, St. Paul, Minnesota, ethics, apologetics, interreligious dialogue, evangelism, and from 1978 to 1987, when he retired in Hamden, Connecticut. missiology are a major contribution to studies of world Chris­ He was the editor of Practical Anthropology journal from 1955 tianity. to 1968,and his book Translation asMissionwas selected by this Congratulations and best wishes go also to Karl Miiller, journal as one of the "Fifteen Outstanding Books of 1991 for S.V.D., whocelebrated his eightiethbirthdayin SanktAugustin Mission Studies." His autobiographical reflections, "My Pil­ (near Bonn), Germany, on January 25, 1998. Father Muller is a grimage in Mission," appeared here in April 1991. distinguished Catholic missiologist who was mission secre­ Died. Anton G. Honig, Jr., 82, Dutch missiologist, in tary and vice-superior general of the SVD in Rome, and also Kampen, on January4, 1998.He was a missionaryin Indonesia served as director of the SVD Missiological Institute and of the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands from 1954 to director of the Anthropos Institute, both in Sankt Augustin. 1967, mainly teaching at theological schools in Yogyakarta, Most recently he coedited the Dictionary of Mission (Orbis Java, and Makassar, Sulawesi. After returning to the Nether­ Books, 1997). lands, he was professor of missiology at Kampen from 1967 to Died. David J. Michell, 64, director of OMF in Ontario, 1984. From 1972 to 1976 he was a member of the Theological Canada, in an automobile accident nearToronto, on December Education Fund of the World Council of Churches. His book 24, 1997. Born in China to Australian missionaries serving Hoeverreikthetheilin Christus? was published a few days after withChina Inland Mission (nowOverseas Missionary Fellow­ he died.

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