Fifteen Outstanding Books of 1982 for Mission Studies
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Mission for Life: The Story of the Family of Adoniram Judson. Fifteen Outstanding Books of 1982 By Joan Jacobs Brumberg. New York: TheFree Press, Macmillan Publishing Co., 1980. Pp. for Mission Studies xtn, 302. $12.95. Despite the prominent display of Ado The Editors of the International Bulletin of Missionary Research have selected the fol niram Judson's name on the book jack lowing books for special recognition of their outstanding contribution to mission et, Joan Jacobs Brumberg has given us studies in 1982. We have limited our selection to books in English since it would instead a fascinating study of Judson's be impossible to consider fairly the books in many other languages that are not three wives-Ann Hasseltine, Sarah readily available to us. We commend the authors, editors, and publishers repre Hall Boardman, and Emily Chub sented here for their continuing commitment to advance the cause of the Chris buck-and the children they bore the tian world mission with scholarly literature. great missionary patriarch. Through their correspondence and numerous biographies, the Judson Anderson, Gerald H, ed. women became heroines to their Witnessing to the Kingdom: Melbourne and Beyond. American sisters, inspiring almost sin Maryknoll. NY: Orbis BOOKS. Paperback $7.95. glehandedly women's enormous con Barrett, David B., ed. tributions to the missionary movement World Christian Encyclopedia. A Comparative Study of Churches and Re in the nineteenth century. ligions in the Modern World, A.D. 1900-2000. Ann Hasseltine, of course, made New York: Oxford University Press. $95.00. the initial entry into Burma, after be Brown, David. coming a Baptist convert, with her All Their Splendour. World Faiths: A Way to Community. husband during the long voyage to In London: Collins-Fount. Paperback £1.95. dia in 1812. She shared in the transla Biihlmann, Walbert. tion work and stood by him when he God's Chosen Peoples. was imprisoned during Burma's war Maryknoll. N. Y: Orbis BOOKS. Paperback $8.95. with Britain in 1824. SHe lies buried Costas, Orlando E. under a hopia tree in Burma, beside her Christ Outside the Gate. Mission Beyond Christendom. daughter Maria. Their first-born son MarYKnoll, N. Y: Orbis BOOKS. Paperback $12.95. also was buried in Burma. Dussel, Enrique. Sarah Hall Boardman was the wid A History of the Church in Latin America: Colonialism to Liberation, ow of missionary George Boardman 1492-1979. when she married Judson at Tavoy in GrandRapids, Mich.: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. $21.95. 1834. She bore him ten children while Eerdmans Publishing Co. overseeing the mission compound and Eerdmans/ Handbook to the World's Religions. a widespread school system among the GrandRapids, Mich.: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. $21.95. Karen people. She died in 1845 on her Forman, Charles W way home to the United States and is The Island Churches of the South Pacific: Emergence in the Twentieth buried at St. Helena, the resting place Century. also of Napoleon. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis BOOKS. Paperback $17.50. Emily Chubbuck, already well HenKel, Willi, ed. known as novelist Fanny Forester, Bibliografia Missionaria: Anno XLV (1981). shocked the Christian community Vatican City: Urban Pontifical University. Paperback $15.00. when she won the heart of the famous Jacobs, Sylvia M, ed. missionary statesman. They were mar Black Americans and the Missionary Movement in Africa. ried in 1846 and during six months in a Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. $27.50. sickbed in Rangoon she wrote the Krass, Alfred C. Memoir of Sarah B. Judson, which ap Evangelizing Neopagan North America. peared in 1848. Judson died at sea in Scottsdale, Pa.: Herald Press. Paperback $9.95. 1850 and she was left to rear the accu Motte, Mary andJoseph R. Lang, eds. mulated children. Mission in Dialogue. The Sedos Research Seminar on the Future of Brumberg, in addition to exploring Mission. the effects of missionary hagiography, . Maryknoll, NY: Orbis BOOKS. $35.00. also gives us some insights into the dif Nemer, Lawrence. ficulties of being the children of fam Anglican and Roman Catholic Attitudes on Missions. An Historical Study ous parents. Anyone interested in the of Two English Missionary Societies in the Late Nineteenth Century missionary pioneers and the nine (1865-1885). teenth-century climate that launched St. Augustin, West Germany: Steyler Verlag. Paperback DM 32.50/$15.00. the missionary movement will find Sider, Ronald I, ed. Brumberg's book delightful reading. Evangelicals and Development: Toward a Theology of Social Change. -Nancy A. Hardesty Philadelphia: Westminster Press. Paperback $6.95. Tutu, Desmond. Crying in the Wilderness. The Struggle for Justice in South Africa. Nancy A. Hardesty, writer and church historian GrandRapids, Mich.: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Paperback $5.95. from Atlanta, Georgia, is the author of Great Women of Faith, which includes the stories of several more missionary pioneers. January 1983 35 .