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Transforming Teaching for Mission First Fruits Press the Academic Open Press of Asbury Theological Seminary 204 N Transforming Teaching for Mission First Fruits Press The Academic Open Press of Asbury Theological Seminary 204 N. Lexington Ave., Wilmore, KY 40390 859-858-2236 [email protected] asbury.to/firstfruits Transforming Teaching For Mission Educational Theory and Practice The 2014 proceedings of The Association of Professors of Missions Edited by Robert A. Danielson Benjamin L. Hartley 2014 APM Annual Meeting St. Paul, MN June 19-20, 2014 Transforming Teaching for Mission: Educational Theory and Practice The 2014 Proceedings of the Association of Professors of Missions. Published by First Fruits Press, © 2014 Digital version at http://place.asburyseminary.edu/academicbooks/10/ ISBN: 9781621711582 (print), 9781621711742 (digital), 9781621711759 (kindle) First Fruits Press is publishing this content by permission from the Association of Professors of Mission. Copyright of this item remains with the Association of Professors of Mission. First Fruits Press is a digital imprint of the Asbury Theological Seminary, B.L. Fisher Library. Its publications are available for noncommercial and educational uses, such as research, teaching and private study. First Fruits Press has licensed the digital version of this work under the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial 3.0 United States License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us/. For all other uses, contact Association of Professors of Missions 108 W. High St. Lexington, KY 40507 http://www.asmweb.org/content/apm Transforming teaching for mission : educational theory and practice [electronic resource] : the 2014 proceedings of the Association of Professors of Missions. 1 online resource (v, 326 pages) : digital Wilmore, Ky. : First Fruits Press, ©2014. ISBN: 9781621711742 (electronic.) 1. Missions – Study and teaching – Congresses. 2. Missions – Theory – Congresses. 3. Education – Philosophy – Congresses. 4. Teaching – Methodology – Congresses. I. Title. II. Danielson, Robert A. (Robert Alden), 1969- III. Hartley, Benjamin L. (Benjamin Loren) IV. Association of Professors of Mission annual meeting (2014 : St. Paul, Minn.) V. Association of Professors of Mission. VI. The 2014 proceedings of the Association of Professors of Missions. BV2020 .A876 2014eb Cover design by Jon Ramsey i Robert Danielson, Advisory Committee Member | About the Association of Professors of Mission Robert Danielson, Advisory Committee Member The Association of Professors of Mission (APM) was formed in 1952 at Louisville, Kentucky and was developed as an organization to focus on the needs of people involved in the classroom teaching of mission studies. However, the organization also challenged members to be professionally involved in scholarly research and share this research through regular meetings. In the 1960’s Roman Catholic scholars and scholars from conservative Evangelical schools joined the conciliar Protestants who initially founded the organization. With the discussion to broaden membership to include other scholars from areas like anthropology, sociology, and linguistics who were actively engaged in mission beyond the teaching profession, the decision was made to found the American Society of Missiology (ASM) in 1972. Since the importance of working with mission educators was still vital, the APM continued as a separate organization, but always met in conjunction with the ASM at their annual meetings. The APM continues as a professional society of those interested in the teaching of mission from as wide an ecumenical spectrum as possible. As an organization it works to help and support those who teach mission, especially those who often lack a professional network to help mentor and i ii | About the Association of Professors of Mission guide them in this task. Through its influence, the APM has also helped establish the prominence and scholarly importance of the academic discipline of missiology throughout theological education. iii Table of Contents | Table of Contents About the Association of Professors of Mission ............................ i Robert Danielson, Advisory Committee Member Foreword ...................................................................................................1 Benjamin L. Hartley, President Conference Papers Opening Plenary Address Great Books and Missionary Fictions ........................................... 11 Daniel Born Classroom Case Studies and Strategies for Mission Education Transformative Learning versus Informative Learning in Facilitating Mission Studies ............................................................. 29 Glory E. Dharmaraj The Pedagogy of Hip Hop in Teaching Missiology .................... 47 Daniel White Hodge Jesus and the Parables ....................................................................... 77 Kevin Olson Theological Considerations for Mission Education A Wesleyan Theology of Cultural Competency .......................... 93 Esther D. Jadhav iv | Table of Contents Engaging in Pneumatic Mission Praxis .......................................117 Robert L. Gallagher Rethinking the Mission Curriculum Redesigning Missiological Education for the Twenty-First Century ..................................................................................................153 Kevin Book-Satterlee Analysis of Spiritual Formation Practices in DMiss Cohorts ..................................................................................................187 Elizabeth “Betsy” Glanville Cultural Bias in Missionary Education .......................................203 Birgit Herppich Anthropological/Sociological Considerations in Mission Education Transforming Teaching for Mission ............................................229 Cope Suan Pau Preparing Melanesians for Missions ...........................................247 Doug Hanson Mission Education Outside the Classroom Nurturing Missionary Learning Communities .........................267 Richard and Evelyn Hibbert Other Plenary Addresses Connecting Cultures for Christ ......................................................291 Grace Cajiuat Adult Learning in a World Leaning Into God’s Mission .........295 Mary Hess v Table of Contents | Conference Proceedings Conference Program .........................................................................301 Business Meeting Agenda ...............................................................307 Secretary-Treasurer’s Report ........................................................309 Executive Committee Report .........................................................311 Report on Electronic Version of APM Papers ...........................317 Robert Danielson 2014 Business Meeting Minutes ...................................................321 David E. Fenrick 2014-2015 Leadership Roster ......................................................325 1 Benjamin L. Hartley, President | Foreword Benjamin L. Hartley, President It was my privilege to serve as President of the Association of Professors of Mission (APM) for 2014 even if it was not exactly according to plan. Sister Madge Karecki, Director of the Office of Mission Education and Animation of the Archdiocese of Chicago, had intended to serve in this capacity this year. Early in the year, however, she accepted an invitation to serve as President of St. Augustine College in Johannesburg, South Africa and needed to resign as President of the APM. I mention this because the original germ of an idea for our theme, “Transforming Teaching for Mission” was hers; I sought to be faithful to her idea as I developed it in the months prior to our June 2014 gathering. The field of missiology – and the Association of Professors of Mission along with it – is in the midst of mult-faceted re-assessment as more than a few publications in recent years make plain.1 The welcomed 1 See, for example, Dwight Baker, “Missiology as an Interested Discipline – and Where Is It Happening?” International Bulletin of Missionary Research 38 no. 1 (January 2014): 17-21; Paul Kollman, “At the Origins of Mission and Missiology: A Study in the Dynamics of Religious Language,” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 79 no. 2 (June 2011): 425-458; John Roxborogh, “Missiology after “mission”?” International Bulletin of Missionary Research 38 no. 3 (July 2014): 120-124; Michael A. Rynkiewich, “Do We Need a Postmodern Anthropology for Mission in a Postcolonial World?” Mission Studies 28 (2011): 151-169. Re-evaluations of the definition of mission are 1 2 | Foreword growth of our sister society, the American Society of Missiology (ASM), since their strategic planning meetings in June of 2010 (in which APM also participated) is contributing to this re-assessment as well. Even the 2012 decision made by the American Society of Missiology and the APM to meet in a new location after a decades-long practice of gathering at the Society of the Divine Word’s Techny Towers Conference and Retreat Center in Illinois is prompting a fair bit of stock-taking as old habits of interaction in a familiar place are disrupted by new meeting locations. As a professional society comprised of professors devoted to excellence in teaching about mission we always need to be about the task of posing fresh questions about the teaching of mission in the training institutes, seminaries, colleges, and universities to which we belong. After the APM’s establishment in 1952, the first theme addressed at the 1954 gathering of the Association of Professors of Mission sought to do this very thing. That meeting
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