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FULL ISSUE (48 Pp., 2.4 MB PDF) Vol. 21, No.4 nternatlona• October 1997 etln• Translation and the Fullness of Christ "How about the Lancandons?" from 1972 to 1997 on the faculty of Providence College and A Mexican official once put that question to linguist Seminary in Otterburne, Manitoba. His publications include Kenneth L. Pike. Pike-whose "My Pilgrimage in Mission" Missions and Money: Affluence as a Western Missionary Problem appears in this issue-answered Yes, Wycliffe Bible Translators (Orbis Books, 4th printing, 1996). He received an M.A. from would translate the Bible even for the Lancandons, an ethnic Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, Illinois, and a group of only about 150 individuals living in one of the wildest Ph.D. from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. We look for­ areas on the North American continent. His rationale for dealing ward to his contribution to the INTERNATIONAL BULLETIN. with such a small ethnic group? "Ethnic groups are like people. .Each has its ownpersonality [with] differentcharacteristics of God showing through.... Every culture has a contribution to make" (With Heartand Mind, p. 113). Everyculturehasa contribution to make. Some of the more far­ On Page reaching implications of this idea are explored in the opening pages of this issue by contributing editor Andrew F. Walls. He 146 Old Athens and New Jerusalem: Some asserts thatthe"fullness ofChrist"willnotbe attained apartfrom Signposts for Christian Scholarship in the the penetration of the Gospel and the incorporation into Christ's Early History of Mission Studies body of the various cultures of our globe. The Antiochian wit­ Andrew F. Walls nesses (Acts 11:19-21), he writes, made a "daring metaphysical 154 Mission, Renewal, and the Future of the translation" when, speaking to Gentiles, they attributed to Jesus Church the same term-Kyrios, "Lord"-thatwas applied to the gods of Wilbert R. Shenk the local pantheon. As Gentiles came into the communityof faith, the Gospel had to be communicated not merely in the words of 157 Noteworthy other tongues but in the deeper worlds of alien thought and 159 My Pilgrimage in Mission culture. The process is not without its risks and messiness, but in KennethL. Pike the outworking of it all, says Walls, "Itis as thoughChristhimself grows as he penetrates Gentile thought and society ... and 162 The Legacy of James Johnson becomes as thoroughly at home in the Hellenistic Gentile world Jehu J. Hanciles as once he was in Jewish Palestine." The special relevance for our time is found in the new reality 168 The Legacy of Pierre Jean de Menasce of a global Christian community of which non-Western peoples Adrian Hastings constitute an ever-increasing majority. From his overview of the 172 Becoming All Things to All People: first 1,000 years of Christian expansion, Walls draws the conclu­ Early Moravian Missions to Native sion, "There are yet further expansions of the understanding of North Americans Christ to be expected from [the Gospel's] engagement with the Karl-Wilhelm Westmeier cultures of Africa and Asia." 177 Book Reviews * * * * * In July the Overseas Ministries Study Center, publishers of 187 Dissertation Notices the INTERNATIONAL BULLETIN, welcomed Jonathan J. Bonk as the 188 Index, 1997 new Associate Director of OMSC and Associate Editor of the BULLETIN. Raised by missionary parents in Ethiopia, Bonk served 192 Book Notes of issionary Research Old Athens and New Jerusalem: Some Signposts for Christian Scholarship in the Early History of Mission Studies Andrew F. Walls t the end of a long and eventful life, the English Puritan Torah? Jesus himself had said he did not aim to destroy it; he A Richard Baxter was engaging in the proper Puritan wouldnotsanctionthe loss of a singlejot or tittle of it. Soattached practice of introspection and self-analysis, highlighting the mat­ were they to the temple that it seems to have been their regular ters on which his ideashad changed, the things he would now do meeting place, the temple liturgy the staple of their worship.' differently. "I was wont to look but little beyond England in my They had not abandoned animal sacrifice but saw it in a new prayers, as not considering the state of the rest of the world. Or context-the self-offering of the Servant of Cod.' Above all, they if I prayed for the conversion of the Jews, that was almost all. But saw Jesus as the Messiah, the Agent of God. In doing so, they now,asI better understand the case of the world and the method transformed the traditional concept of messiahship by stressing of the Lord's Prayer, ... I cannot be affected so much with the his crucifixion and resurrection; but this did not destroy the calamities of the land of my nativity as with the case of the traditional concept. Rather, it enlarged it by tying it to the heathen, Mahometan and ignorant nations of the earth."! The symbols of Son of Man and Suffering Servant. Jesus, that is, was old Calvinist confesses astonishment that divine providence has above all the national savior of Israel, the one who would redeem confined its favor so narrowly, and he reflects on the curse of "the the nation and make its significance clear to the nations. Jesus for division of languages." Could we but go among the "Tartarians, the early Jerusalem Christians was a Jewish savior, whose work Turksandheathens" andspeaktheirlanguages,he goes on, there could notbe fully understood without reference to the destiny of would be no need to lament the recent legislation that had the nation. silenced so many English preachers of the Gospel for their The earliestJesus communitydidnotimmediatelygo intoall nonconformity with the state regulation of religion. the world to preach the Gospel to every creature. The believers The passage points up some contrasts between Baxter's day hadenoughto do withoutgoinganywhere. Certainly,somenon­ and our own. Had he been able to see the world three hundred Jews-the household of Cornelius is the example featured in years later, his puzzlement at the geographic restriction of the Acts (10:1-11:18)-learned about Jesus, but Cornelius belonged knowledge of salvation might have been modified. His Puritan to the fairly small community of Gentiles in Palestine itself who instincts might have found relief in knowing that the majority of had been attracted to Jewish religion and morality. There is no Christianswouldone daylive in Africa,Asia, Latin America,and trace of any program on the part of the early Jesus community to the Pacific, while the land of his nativity steadily shed its Chris­ transform the presentation of Jesus to make it intelligible, not to tian allegiance. He mightalso have modified his identificationof mention applicable, to those who were not members of the diversityof languageas the plague thatinhibited evangelization. commonwealth of Israel. Language is but the outer shell of a much more fundamental It was a hugely significantevent, therefore, that took place in diversity of thought and practice into which the Christian mes­ Antioch when an anonymous group of Jewish believers, ex­ sage mustbe translated..If Tartarians and Turks were to become pelled from Jerusalem in an attack on Jesus people there, talked Christians, the process would take Christianity itself into new about Jesus to "Greeks," that is, to pagans (Acts 11:20). The pathways. process moved the understanding of Jesus to a different plane, Baxter was one of the most catholic-spirited Christian lead­ for the group presentedhim, not as Messiah (how could that idea ers of his day and place, and such foreknowledge might simply apply to a Greek-speaking Antiochian Gentile?), but as Kyrios have taken his thoughts to the New Testament exemplars of that (Le.,Lord), the title used by participants in the East Mediterra­ conversion of the nations that burdened the prayers of his last nean religious potpourri for their cult divinities. This daring years. piece of cross-cultural translation, this spectacular theft of sym­ bols (to use the modemjargon), was transformative for Christian A Signpost in Old Jerusalem history. It opened the way to a truly Hellenistic understanding of Jesus. The earliest model of Christianity, as described in the opening This new understanding by no means superseded the older chapters of the Acts of the Apostles, is a Jewish one. The earliest knowledgeabout Jesus, for the messiahshipofJesus continuedto Christians apprehended the significance of Jesus in essentially be recognized in his title "Jesus Christ." But it took the under­ Jewish terms. Everything about Jesus made sense for them in standing of Jesus into new realms of thought. Note that this terms of Jewish history and Jewish destiny. They were all Jews symbol theft was not translation in the narrow sense of word by birth and inheritance and were so attached to the Torah that equivalence. There was no difficulty in translating the word their leader, Jesus' own brother, became known as James the "Messiah" into Greek; that had been done centuries before, and Just-thatis,James the Righteous, in the Jewishsense of heartfelt thousands of Greek-speakingJews looked for the coming of /I the fulfillment of the law. What reason had they to abandon the Christ." But what could the Christ (i.e., /IAnointed One" or "Smeared One") mean to an Antiochian pagan until it was Andrew F. Walls is Curator of Collections at the Centre for the Study of identified, and thus explained, in terms of something already Christianity in theNon-Western World, Honorary Professor oftheUniversity present in Antiochian religious consciousness? People can take of Edinburgh, and a contributing editor of the INTERNATIONAL BULLETIN OF in a new idea only in terms of ideas they already have. MISSIONARY REsEARCH. In 1996and1997 hewasGuestProfessor ofEcumenics This is where Baxter's view of the division of languages falls andMission at Princeton Theological Seminary.
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