Vol. 37, No. 1 January 2013 The Image of God and Mission ay Dirks, curator of the Mennonite Heritage Centre Gal- Rlery on the campus of Canadian Mennonite University, On Page Winnipeg, served at the Overseas Ministries Study Center as artist in residence during the 2002-3 academic year. He was—and is—an 3 Obtaining Informed Consent in Missiologically artist with a mission. For much of his adult life he has chosen to Sensitive Contexts Johan Mostert and Marvin Gilbert sojourn among people who inhabit regions of the world least con- genial to shalom, among shattered remnants of families engulfed 8 Bishop Kenneth Cragg, 1913–2012 in the chaos of war, famine, and natural disaster. 9 The Use of Social Data in the Evangelization of We consum- Europe: Methodological Issues ers of media Stefan Paas become quickly 13 Professional Academic Associations for inured to the daily Mission Studies avalanche of bad Gerald H. Anderson news featuring 17 End Times Innovator: Paul Rader and anonymous men Evangelical Missions and women, boys Mark Rogers and girls racked 20 Noteworthy by terrible mis- 25 The Long Journey Home: A Review Essay fortune, rendered Joel A. Carpenter destitute by natu- 26 Regnum Edinburgh Centenary Series: ral disaster, or Mission in the Twenty-First Century uprooted by fero- Knud Jørgensen cious conflicts. 27 My Pilgrimage in Mission Initial shock, Roswith Gerloff perhaps accom- 31 Half of Global Christian Population Is panied by pangs Roman Catholic of sympathy, 32 Christianity 2013: Renewalists and Faith and soon gives way Migration to indifference. Todd M. Johnson and Peter F. Crossing What, after all, 34 The Legacy of John Charles Heinrich can we do? And in John C. B. Webster any case, “they” Ray Dirks, 2002, [email protected] are not among 38 My Pilgrimage in Mission Sudanese Madonna and Child Arnold L. Cook those we think of as “us.” The weight of suffering humanity is a burden too great 42 Missiological Journals: A Checklist for any one or any nation to bear or, sometimes, even to notice. Compiled by Jonathan J. Bonk, with Erika Stalcup, Social, religious, and perhaps even racial deficiencies—we sub- Wendy Jennings, and Dwight P. Baker consciously surmise—have combined to make them not quite 50 Book Reviews as human as our ilk. 62 Dissertation Notices Continued next page 64 Book Notes Such realities have led Ray Dirks to spend time living in individual men and women behind the data so that they are not discomfort among the uncomforted. As he resides among them, mere objects of our research, subjects of our religious schemes, in some ways as one of them, he sees in their faces the image of or the raw materials of our scholarly reputations or missiological God. And through his painting he will not allow us to forget this successes, but children of God. most fundamental of all truths about “the other.” In the face of the In “The Weight of Glory,” the oft-cited sermon that C. S. Sudanese refugee featured with this editorial—a widow, stricken Lewis delivered in Oxford on June 8, 1942, we are reminded that by numbing family loss and social dislocation—Dirks allows us Christians dare not succumb to a reductionist, utilitarian view of to see beauty, dignity, and the pride of a young mother in whose other human beings, no matter how alien, how distant, or how son reside her hopes for the future.1 Her face echoes the song of exploitable they might be: a young mother-to-be, whose soul glorified the Lord and whose spirit rejoiced in God her Savior for remembering her, lowliest of There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere the lowly (Luke 1:46–47). By seeing, really seeing, such persons, mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilization—these are mortal, one person at a time, we gaze on the image of God. And we can and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit— no longer so easily turn away. immortal horrors or everlasting splendours. “From now on,” the apostle Paul reminded the Corinthian This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We church, “we regard no one from a human point of view” (2 Cor. must play. But our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in 5:16). The “human point of view” is a utilitarian view of others, fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, whether they be competitors, another ethnic or racial or religious from the outset, taken each other seriously—no flippancy, no group, or subjects of missiological research. superiority, no presumption. And our charity must be a real and For the Christian scholar, such deeply held convictions costly love, with deep feeling for the sins in spite of which we about the deepest identity of “the other” should bear directly on love the sinner—no mere tolerance or indulgence which paro- the way research data is collected and used. Johan Mostert and dies love as flippancy parodies merriment. Marvin Gilbert make this point clear in their lead article, argu- Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbour is the holiest object presented to your senses. If he is your Christian ing that “from both a Christian and an empirical point of view neighbour, he is holy in almost the same way, for in him also . for a study to be scientifically valid, it must also be ethical, Christ vere latitat [Latin, “truly hides”]—the glorifier and the glo- which means that it must protect the rights of its participants.” rified, Glory Himself, is truly hidden.2 Stefan Paas points to the widespread and long-standing —Jonathan J. Bonk practice of using “research” and “hard data” on “unreached Notes people groups” as little more than “mobilization rhetoric”—with 1. This evocative painting by Ray Dirks previously appeared, without scant information that is otherwise meaningful. His perceptive comment, on the cover of the October 2009 issue of the IBMR. critique of “data” and its misuses underscores the need for a 2. C. S. Lewis, “The Weight of Glory,” quoted from http://parishab better way. 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(ISSN 0272-6122) 2 International Bulletin of Missionary Research, Vol. 37, No. 1 Obtaining Informed Consent in Missiologically Sensitive Contexts Johan Mostert and Marvin Gilbert nvestigators (including missiologists) who conduct right to refuse participation in research without loss of any kind, Iresearch with human participants ethically follow guide- including services and privileges.