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Foundations for Mission Emma Wild-Wood Oral Roberts University Digital Showcase Regnum Edinburgh Centenary Series Holy Spirit Research Center 2013 Foundations for Mission Emma Wild-wood Peniel Rajkumar Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalshowcase.oru.edu/re2010series Part of the Missions and World Christianity Commons Recommended Citation Wild-wood, Emma, and Peniel Rajkumar. 2013. "Foundations for Mission." . http://digitalshowcase.oru.edu/re2010series/5 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Holy Spirit Research Center at Digital Showcase. It has been accepted for inclusion in Regnum Edinburgh Centenary Series by an authorized administrator of Digital Showcase. For more information, please contact [email protected]. REGNUM EDINBURGH CENTENARY SERIES Volume 13 Foundations for Mission REGNUM EDINBURGH CENTENARY SERIES The Centenary of the World Missionary Conference of 1910, held in Edinburgh, was a suggestive moment for many people seeking direction for Christian mission in the twenty-first century. Several different constituencies within world Christianity held significant events around 2010. From 2005, an international group worked collaboratively to develop an intercontinental and multi-denominational project, known as Edinburgh 2010, and based at New College, University of Edinburgh. This initiative brought together representatives of twenty different global Christian bodies, representing all major Christian denominations and confessions, and many different strands of mission and church life, to mark the Centenary. Essential to the work of the Edinburgh 1910 Conference, and of abiding value, were the findings of the eight think-tanks or ‘commissions’. These inspired the idea of a new round of collaborative reflection on Christian mission – but now focused on nine themes identified as being key to mission in the twenty-first century. The study process was polycentric, open-ended, and as inclusive as possible of the different genders, regions of the world, and theological and confessional perspectives in today’s church. It was overseen by the Study Process Monitoring Group: Miss Maria Aranzazu Aguado (Spain, The Vatican), Dr Daryl Balia (South Africa, Edinburgh 2010), Mrs Rosemary Dowsett (UK, World Evangelical Alliance), Dr Knud Jørgensen (Norway, Areopagos), Rev. John Kafwanka (Zambia, Anglican Communion), Rev. Dr Jooseop Keum (Korea, World Council of Churches), Dr Wonsuk Ma (Korea, Oxford Centre for Mission Studies), Rev. Dr Kenneth R. Ross (UK, Church of Scotland), Dr Petros Vassiliadis (Greece, Aristotle University of Thessalonikki), and coordinated by Dr Kirsteen Kim (UK, Edinburgh 2010). These publications reflect the ethos of Edinburgh 2010 and will make a significant contribution to ongoing studies in mission. It should be clear that material published in this series will inevitably reflect a diverse range of views and positions. These will not necessarily represent those of the series’ editors or of the Edinburgh 2010 General Council, but in publishing them the leadership of Edinburgh 2010 hopes to encourage conversation between Christians and collaboration in mission. All the series’ volumes are commended for study and reflection in both church and academy. Series Editors Knud Jørgensen Areopagos, Norway, MF Norwegian School of Theology & the Lutheran School of Theology, Hong Kong. Former Chair of Edinburgh 2010 Study Process Monitoring Group Kirsteen Kim Leeds Trinity University College and former Edinburgh 2010 Research Coordinator, UK Wonsuk Ma Oxford Centre for Mission Studies, Oxford, UK Tony Gray Words by Design, Bicester, UK REGNUM EDINBURGH CENTENARY SERIES Volume 13 Foundations for Mission Edited by Emma Wild-Wood and Peniel Rajkumar Copyright © Emma Wild-Wood and Peniel Rajkumar, 2013 First published 2013 by Regnum Books International Regnum is an imprint of the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies St. Philip and St. James Church Woodstock Road Oxford OX2 6HR, UK www.ocms.ac.uk/regnum 09 08 07 06 05 04 03 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 The right of Emma Wild-Wood and Peniel Rajkumar to be identified as the Editors of this Work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electric, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher or a licence permitting restricted copying. In the UK such licences are issued by the Copyright Licencing Agency, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London W1P 9HE. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN: 978-1-908355-12-6 Typeset by Words by Design Printed and bound in Great Britain for Regnum Books International by TJ International LTD, Padstow, Cornwall The publication of this title is made possible through the generous financial assistance of The Commission on Theological Education of Evangelisches Missionswerk in Deutschland (EMW, Dr. Verena Grüter), Hamburg, Germany CONTENTS INTRODUCTION Exploring Foundations for Mission Emma Wild-Wood and Peniel Rajkumar 3 PART ONE: EXPLORING EXPERIENCE AS A FOUNDATION FOR MISSION The Restless Result Between ‘Is’ and ‘Ought’ Janice Price and Anne Richards 17 When Margins Inform and Re-form Mission Deenabandhu Manchala, Peniel Rajkumar and Dayam Joseph Prabhakar 30 The Importance of Historical Inquiry in Mission Beverly Eileen Mitchell 43 Mission as Testifying to the Experience of Meeting with God Zlatina Karavaltcheva 55 PART TWO: EXPLORING THE BIBLE AS A FOUNDATION FOR MISSION Towards a Missiology Inspired by the Book of Proverbs Jacques Matthey 69 Biblical Foundations for Liberative Mission from Latin America Néstor Míguez 85 The Bible in and through Mission and Mission in the Bible in Postcolonial Africa R. Simangaliso Kumalo 96 The Biblical Foundation for Mission from a Middle Eastern Experience Mary Mikhael 111 PART THREE: EXPLORING THEOLOGY AS A FOUNDATION FOR MISSION Christology and Trinity in Mission Damon W K So 123 The Spirit in Mission Christina Manohar 138 vi Foundations for Mission A Theology of Mission from an Orthodox Perspective Petros Vassiliadis 154 Creation and Kingdom-Centered Theology for Missio Inter-Gentes Edmund Kee-Fook Chia 163 PART FOUR: THE BIBLE, THEOLOGY AND EXPERIENCE TOGETHER Roman Catholic Perspectives on Foundations for Mission Robert Schreiter 179 A Missiology of Listening for a Folk Church in a Postmodern Context Mogens Mogensen 190 Foundations for Mission in a Movement of World Evangelization Harold Segura and Valdir Steuernagel 205 The Theological Motivations for Pentecostal Mission Wonsuk Ma 220 CONCLUSION Setting Sail for the Future Emma Wild-Wood and Peniel Rajkumar 239 APPENDICES Appendix 1: ‘Theme 1: Foundations for Mission’ in Daryl Balia and Kirsteen Kim (eds), Edinburgh 2010: Witnessing Today (Oxford: Regnum, 2010) 255 Appendix 2: ‘Theme 1: Foundations for Mission,’ in Kirsteen Kim and Andrew Anderson (eds), Edinburgh 2010: Mission Today and Tomorrow (Oxford: Regnum, 2011) 283 Bibliography 291 List of Contributors 305 INTRODUCTION EXPLORING FOUNDATIONS FOR MISSION Emma Wild-Wood and Peniel Rajkumar Foundations for this Book The loving, relational nature of God and the outpouring of God’s Trinitarian self into the world are the source of mission. The calling of God’s creatures to participate in God’s love and care for the world is our mandate. Such is the comprehension of the foundation for mission that gained prominence in the twentieth century. It places mission at the centre of the being and activity of Father, Son and Spirit – God’s heartbeat.1 Thus mission is at the centre of theology and of Christian action. The development of such an understanding can be traced, in part, to a trend for missionary research, reflection, structures and organisations that arose from the World Missionary Conference of 1910 and its antecedents.2 As part of a centennial commemoration of that conference, a worldwide appraisal of mission theology and practice has been undertaken focussing upon nine main themes and culminating in a conference in Edinburgh in 2010. This book is part of that venture: it presents the work of those involved in the study process which examined the first theme, ‘Foundations for Mission’ and contributes to a series that re-examines Christian mission at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Drawing from many Christian traditions across the globe this volume asks: What is foundational for our participation in the missio dei? What elements do we discern as the basis for mission involvement? How do we understand and use those elements? The 1910 conference marked a transition between missionary eras.3 The hope and optimism which had grown in the missionary movement during the nineteenth century and was articulated in the conference watchword, ‘The Evangelisation of the World in this Generation’ was to be challenged by the brutality and destruction of the First World War (1914-1918) and the subsequent waning confidence in western civilisation. The conference also set a trend for greater missionary collaboration, ecumenical endeavour and increased study of Christian mission by consulting, gathering together and 1 ‘Theme 1: Foundations for Mission’, in Kirsteen Kim and Andrew Anderson (eds), Edinburgh 2010: Mission Today and Tomorrow (Oxford: Regnum, 2011), 120. 2 For more details see, Brian Stanley, The World Missionary Conference, Edinburgh 1910 (Grand Rapids, MI; Eerdmans, 2009). 3 Emma Wild-Wood, ‘Worldwide
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