EDITOR Robert Danielson EDITORIAL BOARD Kenneth J. Collins Professor of Historical Teology and Wesley Studies J. Steven O’Malley Professor of Methodist Holiness History EDITORIAL ADVISORY PANEL William Abraham, Perkins School of Teology David Bundy, New York Teological Seminary Ted Campbell, Perkins School of Teology Hyungkeun Choi, Seoul Teological University Richard Heitzenrater, Duke University Divinity School Scott Kisker, Wesley Teological Seminary Sarah Lancaster, Methodist Teological School of Ohio Gareth Lloyd, University of Manchester Randy Maddox, Duke University Divinity School Nantachai Medjuhon, Muang Tai Church, Bangkok, Tailand Stanley Nwoji, Pastor, Lagos, Nigeria Paul Numrich, Teological Consortium of Greater Columbus Dana Robert, Boston University Howard Snyder, Manchester Wesley Research Centre L. Wesley de Souza, Candler School of Teology Leonard Sweet, Drew University School of Teology Amos Yong, Regent University Hwa Yung, United Methodist Church, Kuala Lampur, Malaysia All inquiries regarding subscriptions, back issues, permissions to reprint, manuscripts for submission, and books for review should be addressed to: Te Asbury Journal Asbury Teological Seminary 204 N. Lexington Avenue, Wilmore, KY 40390 FAX: 859-858-2375 http://place.asburyseminary.edu/asburyjournal/ © Copyright 2017 by Asbury Teological Seminary ISSN 1090-5642 Te Asbury Journal VOLUME 72:1 Spring 2017 TABLE OF CONTENTS 6 From the Editor, Robert Danielson 8 Improvising with the Quadrilateral: An Augustinian Approach to Recovering the Use of the Wesleyan Quadrilateral in the Teology of Preaching Nathan Crawford 20 Waltzing with Wesley: Wesleyan Teology as a Renewing Framework for Chinese Christian Spirituality and Global Identity Samuel K. Law 44 Te Teme of Creation in Old Testament Teology from the Twentieth Century Onwards: Assessing the State of Play David J. Fuller 60 Pentecostal Music in the Public Square: Te Christian Songs and Music of Juan Luis Guerra Kelly J. Godoy de Danielson and Robert Danielson 78 Música Pentecostal en la Plaza Pública: Las Canciones Cristianas y la Música de Juan Luis Guerra Kelly J. Godoy de Danielson y Robert Danielson 95 An Eschatological Framework for Assessing the Efectiveness of Business as Mission Companies Samuel Lee 110 A Hermeneutical Congregation: A New Reading of Lesslie Newbigin’s Missional Ecclesiology through the “Congregation as Hermeneutic of the Gospel” Principle Shawn P. Behan Features 127 From the Archives: E. Stanley Jones and Nellie Logan 141 Book Reviews 168 Books Received Timothy C. Tennent President and Publisher Douglas Mathews Provost The Asbury Journal publishes scholarly essays and book reviews written from a Wesleyan perspective. 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Sometimes themed issues are well planned and come off like clockwork, and other times… well, things fall apart and you are left with an interesting assortment of articles that refect the newest trends in mission and theology, but seem to be going off in all directions. Nathan Crawford opens this issue looking at understanding Augustine’s theology of preaching in the light of the Wesleyan Quadrilateral, aiming to open up preaching to the importance of improvisation, while at the same time keeping scripture central. Samuel Law sends us on a creative dance as he seeks to understand traditional Chinese spirituality in Confucianism and Daoism and its affects on forming the Chinese Christian Church. Confucianism seemed to win the ideological dance, and he wonders if Wesleyan theology might not be the perfect dialogical partner to bring Chinese Christian Theology back into spiritual harmony. David J. Fuller critiques the current views of creation within Old Testament Theology, in order to clarify where new avenues of research need to be focused. Kelly Godoy de Danielson and Robert Danielson examine the issue of contextualized music and hymnody within the Latin American Church, and seek to offer recent music by the Pentecostal musician, Juan Luis Guerra, as an example of how the Latin American Church can revive its musical roots while still remaining true to its theological views. Samuel Lee seeks to understand how Business as Mission can measure its effectiveness, without being held hostage to traditional business metrics as the only or even primary measure of success. Finally, Shawn P. Behan examines Lesslie Newbigin’s critical theory of the congregation as a hermeneutic of the Gospel, which has played an important role in the Missional Church Movement, but often been inadequately understood. The From the Archives essay this issue looks back to the relationship between E. Stanley Jones, one of the great heroes of the faith in the last century, and Miss Nellie Logan, a quiet unknown prayer warrior, who was his frst grade teacher, and a key part of his conversion story. Through letters for most of her life, the two of them corresponded about issues of theology, politics, and Jones’ missionary adventures. It is a beautiful story of one of the people we often never Danielson: From the Editor 7 hear from, those quiet servants of God who pray for the Kingdom of God and work in their quiet ways, so that God might use someone else to become a spiritual giant. This is a lesson we often need to be reminded of. For everyone of the E. S. Jones’ or Billy Graham’s or Billy Sunday’s in this world, there is an army of Nellie Logan’s that support and sustain their ministries. Creative energy and theology is alive and well in The Asbury Journal for this issue, as we seek to go global and to go deep theologically in our research and writing. The Wesleyan-Holiness heritage continues to speak to Church History, Theology, Contextualized Theology, Missions and Music. It might be diffcult to tie this eclectic group of subjects together, but underneath them all is a passion for furthering the Kingdom of God and seeing the Church grow and prosper around the world! Robert Danielson Ph.D. Te Asbury Journal 72/1: 8-19 © 2017 Asbury Teological Seminary DOI: 10.7252/Journal.01.2017S.02 Nathan Crawford Improvising with the Quadrilateral: An Augustinian Approach to Recovering the Use of the Wesleyan Quadrilateral in the Theology of Preaching Abstract This article explores the improvisational nature of preaching through a closer examination of Augustine’s view of the theology of preaching in De Doctrina Christiana, and an exploration of the Wesleyan framework, known as the Wesleyan Quadrilateral as an additional, but key supplement to developing a theology of preaching which maintains the centrality of scripture, but permits the important addition of improvisation to meet the needs of changing times and congregations. Keywords: Augustine, Wesleyan Quadrilateral, preaching, improvisation, theology Nathan Crawford is an adjunct ExL Professor of Preaching at Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, Kentucky. 8 Crawford : Improvising with the Quadrilateral 9 Introduction The question of what the preacher does should not be that complicated. For most, the preacher simply stands in front of a congregation and gives a message from God. However, this is overly simplistic. It does not take into account the reality of what the preacher actually does in order to preach a sermon, the prolegomena necessary to be one that can effectively communicate the Word of God. In this paper, I want to explore what the preacher ultimately does in order to stand up and preach the Word of God. My thesis is that the preacher is ultimately an improviser. Now, this may sound counter-intuitive as improvisation is usually thought of as an act that is purely spontaneous and only happens in a moment: the exact opposite of the kind of preparation that a preacher does. However, recent research on improvisation in music suggests that ultimately the improviser is one with a solid base of knowledge of a multitude of styles, keys, chords, etc. inherent to music. With this knowledge base, and through interaction with other traditions, experiences, and audiences, the musician makes music. The musician ultimately responds to the call that has been placed upon him or her. And it is this idea of improvisation that I think is ultimately at work in the process of preaching. In order to elucidate this thesis, I make two arguments. First, I examine the theology of preaching at work in Augustine’s De Doctrina Christiana.