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What’s in a Name? Assessing Mission Studies Program Titles What’s In A Name? Assessing Mission Studies Program Titles Te 2015 Proceedings of the Association of Professors of Missions. Published by First Fruits Press, © 2015 Digital version at http://place.asburyseminary.edu/academicbooks/1h/ ISBN: 9781621714705 (print), 9781621714422 (digital), 9781621715641 (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 Teological 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 What’s In A Name? Assessing Mission Studies Program Titles The 2015 Proceedings of the Association of Professors of Missions.5 D&)(.,#5,-)/,E 5g5)(&#(5,-)/,5B0#65hhg5*!-595#&&/-.,.#)(-5:5hg5'8C595#!#.&5 Wilmore, Ky. : First Fruits Press, ©2014.5 ISBN7gi: omnglhgmgjjhh (&.,)(#) 1. Missions – Study and teaching – Congresses. 2. Missions – Teory – 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. Te 2014 proceedings of the Association of Professors of Missions. BV2020 .A876 2014 Cover design by Jon Ramsey First Fruits Press Te Academic Open Press of Asbury Teological Seminary 204 N. Lexington Ave., Wilmore, KY 40390 859-858-2236 [email protected] asbury.to/frstfruits What’s in a Name? Assessing Mission Studies Program Titles Te 2015 proceedings of Te Association of Professors of Missions Edited by Robert A. Danielson Larry W. Caldwell 2015 APM Annual Meeting Weaton, Illinois June 18 - 19, 2015 About the Association of Professors of Mission Robert Danielson, Advisory Committee Member Te 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. Te 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 ii | About the Association of Professors of Mission guide them in this task. Trough its infuence, the APM has also helped establish the prominence and scholarly importance of the academic discipline of missiology throughout theological education. Table of Contents | iii Table of Contents About the Association of Professors of Mission ............................ i Robert Danielson, Advisory Committee Member Foreword .................................................................................................. 1 J. Nelson Jennings, President Conference Theme ................................................................................ 5 Plenary Papers Name Change at Fuller’s School of World Mission to School of Intercultural Studies .............................................................................9 Elizabeth “Betsy” Glanville, PhD Tension Between “Roman” And Catholic In Catholic Missiology And Why It Matters ............................................................................. 25 William R. Burrows Conference Papers Diakonia and Mission: Charting the Ambiguity .........................51 Benjamin L. Hartley Mission Studies as Evangelization and Theology for World Christianity: Reflections on Mission Studies in Britian and Ireland, 2000 - 2015 ........................................................................... 71 Kirsteen Kim iv | Table of Contents From McGavran’s Church Growth to Taber’s Kingdom of God: Tracing Distinct Missiological Trajectories in Undergraduate and Graduate Mission and Intercultural Studies Programs in Christian Churches/ Churches of Christ Institutions ........... 101 Kevin (Kip) Lines, PhD Theology as Christian Self - Description and Academic Inquiry: Thinking with Hans Frei on Mission Studies ......... 139 Daniel D. Shin The Viability of the Doctor of Missiology Degree (The DMiss is dead; Long live the DMiss!) ........................................................... 157 Richard L. Starcher, Ph.D. Our Digital Footprint: Protecting the Next Generation of Field Personnel ............................................................................................ 187 Karen Ann Temper Conference Proceedings Business Meeting Agenda ............................................................. 207 Executive Committe Report .......................................................... 209 2015 Business Meeting Minutes ................................................. 212 Secretary’s Treasury Report ........................................................ 217 Conference Program ....................................................................... 218 Table of Contents | v vi J. Nelson Jennings | 1 Foreword J. Nelson Jennings What’s in a Name? Assessing Mission Studies Program Titles Te June 2015 Annual Meeting of the Association of Professors of Mission examined the titles that educational institutions, North American and otherwise, use for their mission studies programs. Over recent decades many seminaries and colleges, perhaps most notably Fuller Teological Seminary, have switched from using program titles that contain the term mission(s) to social science labels, e.g., intercultural studies. Various religious labels have also been used, e.g., the more recently developing discipline of world Christianity. Tese nomenclature shifts have afected students and graduates in such important ways as personal security. Tat particular factor catalyzed Fuller, especially in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks, to move forward in changing its School of World Mission to the School of Intercultural Studies. As Betsy Glanville’s fascinating paper points out, however, that change was neither simple nor easy. Delicate institutional, historical, personal, and other concerns entered into the picture. As the presence of a sizeable number of Fuller-related participants at the APM meeting indicated, the change at Fuller was widely felt and pacesetting. 2 | Foreword In addition to security concerns, how the titles of mission studies programs have afected institutions’ recruitment of students and new faculty has also been an important area of consideration. Implications for a program’s curriculum – whether undergraduate, graduate, or postgraduate – as well as possibly for an institution’s other programs is yet another major factor. An institution’s desired outcomes for its mission studies program relate to the title employed. Te related type of degree that is earned, e.g., DMiss, DMin, PhD, TD, MT/TM, enters the picture as well. Te theme proved stimulating and constructive for conference participants, and the papers presented here should do the same for readers. Te net efect is that the studies here cast fresh light on how educators understand their various relationships to the missio Dei in today’s ever-transitioning Christian world mission movement. J. Nelson Jennings 2015 APM President J. Nelson Jennings | 3 4 J. Nelson Jennings | 5 Conference Teme Association of Professors of Mission Annual Meeting 18-19 June 2015 Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL What’s in a Name? Assessing Mission Studies Program Titles For full details please visit the APM web page at www.asmweb.org/content/apm Te 2015 Annual Meeting of the APM will examine the titles that educational institutions, North American and otherwise, use for their mission studies programs. Many seminaries and colleges have switched from using program titles that contain the term mission(s) to social science labels, e.g., intercultural studies, or to diferent religious labels, e.g., the more recently developing discipline of world Christianity. Tese nomenclature shifts afect students and graduates in such important ways as personal security or employability. What the titles mean for 6 | Conference Theme how institutions recruit students and new faculty is also an important area of consideration. Implications for a program’s