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Movements, Missiometrics, and World Christianity Vol. 31, No. 1 January 2007 Movements, Missiometrics, and World Christianity ach January since 1985, the INTERNATIONAL BULLETIN OF he was advised by the bishop of London to “abandon science EMISSIONARY RESEARCH has featured an annual statistical and mathematics now and stick to Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic, and table on global mission and world Christianity. Since this table systematic theology.” Accordingly, Barrett returned to Ridley is possibly the most anticipated and without doubt the most Hall, Cambridge, to study theology. He was ordained to ministry frequently cited of our regular offerings, we felt it would be ap- Continued next page propriate this year to provide readers with some background on who and what lie behind these statistics. Born in August 1927 in Llandudno, Wales, David B. Barrett has arguably done more than any other single person to help On Page us see world Christianity in all of its complex permutations as 3 The Witness of the Student Christian Movement a global movement. The question of how one man’s publications Robin Boyd can so far have elicited some 800 book reviews and 1,600 articles, 8 Spreading Fires: The Globalization of headline stories, or feature stories across the international gamut Pentecostalism in the Twentieth Century of journals and newspapers must be the subject one day of his Allan Anderson biographer. For now, a shorter account must suffice. 15 Ecumenical Theological Education in Latin Barrett was converted to Christ in 1946 while studying America, 1916−2005 mathematics at the University of Cambridge. With two degrees Sherron Kay George in aeronautical engineering, in 1948 he was appointed as Scien- tific Officer (Aeronautics) in Britain’s Civil Service and for the 21 My Pilgrimage in Mission next four years took part in strictly classified high-speed wind Michael Amaladoss, S.J. tunnel and flight testing. During this time, he began Mission- 25 Missiometrics 2007: Creating Your Own ary Notes, a publication that applied scientific and aeronautical Analysis of Global Data methodologies to mission, utilizing Britain’s first operational David B. Barrett, Todd M. Johnson, and Peter F. computer, the electromechanical Colossus with its 18,000 vacuum Crossing tubes and covering some 2,000 square feet of floor space. This 33 Contextualizing Universal Values: A Method for publication, which Barrett produced from 1946 to 1960, was a Christian Mission harbinger of the subsequently immense outpouring of data, text, Frances S. Adeney and analyses that would culminate in his groundbreaking 1982 publication World Christian Encyclopedia: A Comparative Study of 38 The Legacy of Rudolf Christian Friedrich Churches and Religions in the Modern World, A.D. 1900–2000 (Ox- Lechler ford Univ. Press), a massive 1,010-page compendium of detailed Jessie G. Lutz information on the state of Christianity in every country in the 40 Noteworthy world. Its second edition, compiled with the assistance of Todd 44 Book Reviews M. Johnson and George T. Kurian, was published in 2001 in three 45 Fifteen Outstanding Books of 2006 for Mission substantial volumes crammed with 2,633 pages of information. Studies But I am getting ahead of myself. When Barrett offered himself as a missionary to the Church 54 Dissertation Notices Missionary Society (CMS) in 1951 for a possible scientific post, 56 Book Notes in the Church of England in 1954 and then served for two years ity across West Africa—an assignment that took him not only to as curate and chaplain at Bradford Cathedral, Yorkshire, and as every country in Africa but later to Asia, Oceania, Latin America, a counselor in Billy Graham’s 1954 and 1955 United Kingdom and Europe as well. The most immediate tangible result was his crusades. groundbreaking book Schism and Renewal in Africa: An Analysis In 1957 the CMS appointed him to work with Luo clergy in of Six Thousand Contemporary Religious Movements (Oxford Univ. the vicinity of Lake Victoria, Kenya. He was surprised when the Press, 1968). missionary archdeacon who welcomed him announced that a Barrett is quick to point out that without scores of colleagues, massive ecclesiastical schism was underway, with some 500,000 two of whom worked with him to produce this issue’s eight-page African Anglicans—including the seven key clergy with whom report, any attempt to track the world Christian movement would he was to have worked—seceding from the communion. The be futile. Todd M. Johnson is director of the Center for the Study young Barrett was instructed by his missionary bishop to have of Global Christianity at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, nothing to do with the excommunicated secessionists. At the researching the status of Christianity and world religions in every same time, encouraged by CMS London as he was learning the people, language, city, and country (see www.worldchristian- Luo and Swahili languages, his natural curiosity as a researcher database.org). Peter F. Crossing is an Australian missiologist, a drew him to the conflict. Denied access to pertinent documents in database programmer, and an editorial associate for the second the mission office, Barrett went directly to the schismatics (called edition of the World Christian Encyclopedia referred to above. As the Church of Christ in Africa), who eagerly shared all that they missions information coordinator at the Sydney Centre for World had. While remaining resolutely nonpartisan in the conflict, he Mission (see www.pastornet.net.au/scwm), Crossing interprets carried with him a huge quantity of unanalyzed data when he and disseminates the results of missiological research to churches returned to Britain in 1962. and mission agencies and consults with church mission commit- Barrett then joined the international ecumenical studies tees and agencies on crucial aspects of the spread of the Gospel. program at Union Theological Seminary in New York, where, He also provides database consulting for the National Church studying with the likes of Henry Pitney Van Dusen and Kenneth Life Survey and data analysis with MapInfo Australia. Scott Latourette, he began to analyze his Africa materials, refining The editors of the INTERNATIONAL BULLETIN OF MISSIONARY and focusing his already considerable intellectual skills for what RESEARCH are honored to be associated with these three men, would become his life’s work. To his amazement, he discovered without whose prodigious efforts all of us would know much, that the Anglican schism in Kenya—typically dismissed as a local much less about the most extraordinary phenomenon of which ecclesiastical aberration (“a bunch of disgruntled nut cases”)—had we are at once participant and observer—Christianity as a world 6,000 close parallels throughout Africa. movement. And we take special pleasure in making their extraor- Following graduation in 1965 with a Ph.D. from a joint dinarily useful statistics and analysis available to missionaries, program between Union Theological Seminary and Columbia church leaders, and scholars around the world. University, Barrett spearheaded a six-month survey of Christian- —Jonathan J. Bonk INTERNATIONAL BULLETIN OF MISSIONARY RESEARCH Established 1950 by R. Pierce Beaver as Occasional Bulletin from the Missionary Research Library. Named Occasional Bulletin of Missionary Research in 1977. 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