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International Bulletin of Missionary Research, 2005
Catalyst, 2010
Sorcery and witchcraft in many parts of the world continue both to provide answers for the causes... more Sorcery and witchcraft in many parts of the world continue both to provide answers for the causes of sickness and death, and to contribute to further fear and violence. For example, the 'victims' include both those allegedly killed by sorcerers and the alleged sorcerers killed by others. To address this pastoral and social situation in Papua New Guinea (PNG), the Melanesian Institute conducted a five-year research project (2003-2007) on sorcery/witchcraft and Christianity. This book is the second of two publications that present the fruit of this thorough study. Sociologist and Divine Word Missionary Franco Zocca, who has worked at the Melanesian Institute since 1994, was one of the lead researchers and is the editor of this volume. Review(s) of: Sanguma in Paradise: Sorcery, Witchcraft and Christianity in Papua New Guinea. Edited by Franco Zocca. Point No. 33. Goroka, Papua New Guinea: Melanesian Institute, 2009. 359 pp. US$45.00/Euro 35.00 (includes airmail postage).
Mission Studies, 2011
Sorcery and witchcraft in many parts of the world continue both to provide answers for the causes... more Sorcery and witchcraft in many parts of the world continue both to provide answers for the causes of sickness and death, and to contribute to further fear and violence. For example, the 'victims' include both those allegedly killed by sorcerers and the alleged sorcerers killed by others. To address this pastoral and social situation in Papua New Guinea (PNG), the Melanesian Institute conducted a five-year research project (2003-2007) on sorcery/witchcraft and Christianity. This book is the second of two publications that present the fruit of this thorough study. Sociologist and Divine Word Missionary Franco Zocca, who has worked at the Melanesian Institute since 1994, was one of the lead researchers and is the editor of this volume. Review(s) of: Sanguma in Paradise: Sorcery, Witchcraft and Christianity in Papua New Guinea. Edited by Franco Zocca. Point No. 33. Goroka, Papua New Guinea: Melanesian Institute, 2009. 359 pp. US$45.00/Euro 35.00 (includes airmail postage).
Fortress Press eBooks, 2018
The editorial policy is under the aegis of Catholic Theological Union of Chicago and Washington T... more The editorial policy is under the aegis of Catholic Theological Union of Chicago and Washington Theological Union, from whose faculties the Editor and Editorial Board are appointed. © 2007 Order of Saint Benedict. All rights reserved. All manuscripts, books for review, and editorial correspondence should be sent to THE EDITORS,
Missiology: An International Review, 2012
to this field. I want to note specifically Keener's (unmentioned and, perhaps, unintended) in... more to this field. I want to note specifically Keener's (unmentioned and, perhaps, unintended) interdisciplinary contribution to missions-specifically for those serving in the Humean, secular environments of the world's (often atheistic and frequently antitheistic) universities. For those teaching philosophy, theology, and related disciplines at secular universities in places like Europe and China, where the ideals and prejudices of the Enlightenment are assumed (and, in China, nearly deified) but rarely challenged, Keener's Miracles will serve well as an ancillary textbook for any discussion on Hume, for a class on worldviews, and for a class on biblical studies (especially on the Historical Jesus). Beyond the classroom, however, Miracles, although written at the pinnacle of academic scholarship, devotionally serves the professor, who must tirelessly swim against the current of secularism, by decisively reminding her that she is not a lone voice contending for the possibility of miracles in the cacophony of viewpoints vying for attention in the modem university. In other words, Keener provides the philosophical and academic platform for a renewed (but culturally appropriate) boldness in the mission fields of the world's academic academy.
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MISSIOLOGY …, 2004
The editorial policy is under the aegis of Catholic Theological Union of Chicago and Washington T... more The editorial policy is under the aegis of Catholic Theological Union of Chicago and Washington Theological Union, from whose faculties the Editor and Editorial Board are appointed.
Missiology: An International Review, 2008
In nation building, the content of language may be as important as the medium. Stories that encod... more In nation building, the content of language may be as important as the medium. Stories that encode values and beliefs are as vital for national or ethnic identity as they are for religion. An over-focus on language itself may be unnecessarily provocative in a multi-linguistic situation. In the study, some countries’ educators found that simply teaching about the cultures of the country contributed to greater harmony and unity and that further minority language teaching was not always necessary. These observations are enough to suggest the richness and variety of this well-executed study. Missiologists, mission executives, missionaries, and teachers traveling to Asian countries will find this volume rewarding.
Missiology: An International Review, 2004
Asia up until the Asian Synod of 1998. Here he focuses particularly on the FABC's conception ... more Asia up until the Asian Synod of 1998. Here he focuses particularly on the FABC's conception of the church's ministry and mission in Asia as the engagement in a triple dialogue with the Asian poor, Asian religions, and Asian cultures (22-37), and the centrality of the reign of God for the church's identity (69-77). That these concerns gradually combined with one another is evident in the final statement of the FABC's fourth assembly: "Seeking the Kingdom that Jesus proclaimed is really to build it in the concrete experiences of the social, political, economic, religious and cultural world of Asia.... The struggle for fullness of life in Asia is a seeking of the Kingdom" (76). Part 2 consists of two chapters and-i-to the mind of this reviewer---don't quite seem to fit in the book. The first chapter presents short biographies of a number of "East-West bridges": Teilhard de Chardin, Thomas Merton, Bede Griffiths, and Raimon Panikkar; the second chapter reflects briefly on Asians who have migrated to the United States and on what gifts they bring to this society. Part 3, however, continues the saga of the Asian bishops as their "new way of being church" comes under suspicion and, to some degree, collides with the vision of church supported by central authorities in Rome. Chapters in this section tell the story of the preparations for, engagement in, and aftermath of, the Asian Synod of 1998, and how the Asian bishops put up strong resistance to some of the perspectives about mission and dialogue that Rome insisted on at this time. One Filipino bishop, Fox reports, asked the pope if he saw any difference between the Asian Synod and the previous Synod of North and South America. "No," the pope replied; "each has the same secretary general." To which the bishop answered: "Yes, Your Holiness, the same secretary general, the same methodology, the same pope." But as others said: "Yes, they have filtered out our contributions. When we return to our countries, we shall also be filtering their documents" (183). Indeed, the papal Apostolic Exhortation Ecclesia in Asia (like all other post-Synodal documents entitled pointedly "the church in" rather than "the church of") was described by Indian theologian Michael Amaladoss as "a document for Asia but not from Asia" (189). But the Asian bishops have quietly gone about their business of developing a truly Asian understanding of Christianity. The picture Fox paints of the Asian church is-e-thanks to the FABC~that of a church with strong, Vatican II-inspired leadership. He sees theologians and bishops working closely together, steeped in the reality of Asian peoples, and perhaps increasingly independent of a central authority that they believe really doesn't understand them. Fox may be too optimistic, however. The FABC certainly has produced a number of beautiful and quite visionary documents; but it is not always evident whether its vision has been appropriated by on-the-ground clergy and Asian laity alike. Nevertheless, as one bishop equally optimistically put it at the Roman Synod: "We've got the ideas; we've got the theologies; the rest will follow" (179). One may certainly hope so. As Christianity enters a new era where Asian, African, and Latin American Christians form the majority (and there is even talk of a Third-World pope), Thomas Fox has written convincingly that the West-s-and the rest of the church-shas much to learn from the continent where, after all, Christianity first began.
Missiology: An International Review, 2003
Missiology: An International Review, 2017
International Bulletin of Missionary Research, 2009
International Bulletin of Missionary Research, 2005
Catalyst, 2010
Sorcery and witchcraft in many parts of the world continue both to provide answers for the causes... more Sorcery and witchcraft in many parts of the world continue both to provide answers for the causes of sickness and death, and to contribute to further fear and violence. For example, the 'victims' include both those allegedly killed by sorcerers and the alleged sorcerers killed by others. To address this pastoral and social situation in Papua New Guinea (PNG), the Melanesian Institute conducted a five-year research project (2003-2007) on sorcery/witchcraft and Christianity. This book is the second of two publications that present the fruit of this thorough study. Sociologist and Divine Word Missionary Franco Zocca, who has worked at the Melanesian Institute since 1994, was one of the lead researchers and is the editor of this volume. Review(s) of: Sanguma in Paradise: Sorcery, Witchcraft and Christianity in Papua New Guinea. Edited by Franco Zocca. Point No. 33. Goroka, Papua New Guinea: Melanesian Institute, 2009. 359 pp. US$45.00/Euro 35.00 (includes airmail postage).
Mission Studies, 2011
Sorcery and witchcraft in many parts of the world continue both to provide answers for the causes... more Sorcery and witchcraft in many parts of the world continue both to provide answers for the causes of sickness and death, and to contribute to further fear and violence. For example, the 'victims' include both those allegedly killed by sorcerers and the alleged sorcerers killed by others. To address this pastoral and social situation in Papua New Guinea (PNG), the Melanesian Institute conducted a five-year research project (2003-2007) on sorcery/witchcraft and Christianity. This book is the second of two publications that present the fruit of this thorough study. Sociologist and Divine Word Missionary Franco Zocca, who has worked at the Melanesian Institute since 1994, was one of the lead researchers and is the editor of this volume. Review(s) of: Sanguma in Paradise: Sorcery, Witchcraft and Christianity in Papua New Guinea. Edited by Franco Zocca. Point No. 33. Goroka, Papua New Guinea: Melanesian Institute, 2009. 359 pp. US$45.00/Euro 35.00 (includes airmail postage).
Fortress Press eBooks, 2018
The editorial policy is under the aegis of Catholic Theological Union of Chicago and Washington T... more The editorial policy is under the aegis of Catholic Theological Union of Chicago and Washington Theological Union, from whose faculties the Editor and Editorial Board are appointed. © 2007 Order of Saint Benedict. All rights reserved. All manuscripts, books for review, and editorial correspondence should be sent to THE EDITORS,
Missiology: An International Review, 2012
to this field. I want to note specifically Keener's (unmentioned and, perhaps, unintended) in... more to this field. I want to note specifically Keener's (unmentioned and, perhaps, unintended) interdisciplinary contribution to missions-specifically for those serving in the Humean, secular environments of the world's (often atheistic and frequently antitheistic) universities. For those teaching philosophy, theology, and related disciplines at secular universities in places like Europe and China, where the ideals and prejudices of the Enlightenment are assumed (and, in China, nearly deified) but rarely challenged, Keener's Miracles will serve well as an ancillary textbook for any discussion on Hume, for a class on worldviews, and for a class on biblical studies (especially on the Historical Jesus). Beyond the classroom, however, Miracles, although written at the pinnacle of academic scholarship, devotionally serves the professor, who must tirelessly swim against the current of secularism, by decisively reminding her that she is not a lone voice contending for the possibility of miracles in the cacophony of viewpoints vying for attention in the modem university. In other words, Keener provides the philosophical and academic platform for a renewed (but culturally appropriate) boldness in the mission fields of the world's academic academy.
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MISSIOLOGY …, 2004
The editorial policy is under the aegis of Catholic Theological Union of Chicago and Washington T... more The editorial policy is under the aegis of Catholic Theological Union of Chicago and Washington Theological Union, from whose faculties the Editor and Editorial Board are appointed.
Missiology: An International Review, 2008
In nation building, the content of language may be as important as the medium. Stories that encod... more In nation building, the content of language may be as important as the medium. Stories that encode values and beliefs are as vital for national or ethnic identity as they are for religion. An over-focus on language itself may be unnecessarily provocative in a multi-linguistic situation. In the study, some countries’ educators found that simply teaching about the cultures of the country contributed to greater harmony and unity and that further minority language teaching was not always necessary. These observations are enough to suggest the richness and variety of this well-executed study. Missiologists, mission executives, missionaries, and teachers traveling to Asian countries will find this volume rewarding.
Missiology: An International Review, 2004
Asia up until the Asian Synod of 1998. Here he focuses particularly on the FABC's conception ... more Asia up until the Asian Synod of 1998. Here he focuses particularly on the FABC's conception of the church's ministry and mission in Asia as the engagement in a triple dialogue with the Asian poor, Asian religions, and Asian cultures (22-37), and the centrality of the reign of God for the church's identity (69-77). That these concerns gradually combined with one another is evident in the final statement of the FABC's fourth assembly: "Seeking the Kingdom that Jesus proclaimed is really to build it in the concrete experiences of the social, political, economic, religious and cultural world of Asia.... The struggle for fullness of life in Asia is a seeking of the Kingdom" (76). Part 2 consists of two chapters and-i-to the mind of this reviewer---don't quite seem to fit in the book. The first chapter presents short biographies of a number of "East-West bridges": Teilhard de Chardin, Thomas Merton, Bede Griffiths, and Raimon Panikkar; the second chapter reflects briefly on Asians who have migrated to the United States and on what gifts they bring to this society. Part 3, however, continues the saga of the Asian bishops as their "new way of being church" comes under suspicion and, to some degree, collides with the vision of church supported by central authorities in Rome. Chapters in this section tell the story of the preparations for, engagement in, and aftermath of, the Asian Synod of 1998, and how the Asian bishops put up strong resistance to some of the perspectives about mission and dialogue that Rome insisted on at this time. One Filipino bishop, Fox reports, asked the pope if he saw any difference between the Asian Synod and the previous Synod of North and South America. "No," the pope replied; "each has the same secretary general." To which the bishop answered: "Yes, Your Holiness, the same secretary general, the same methodology, the same pope." But as others said: "Yes, they have filtered out our contributions. When we return to our countries, we shall also be filtering their documents" (183). Indeed, the papal Apostolic Exhortation Ecclesia in Asia (like all other post-Synodal documents entitled pointedly "the church in" rather than "the church of") was described by Indian theologian Michael Amaladoss as "a document for Asia but not from Asia" (189). But the Asian bishops have quietly gone about their business of developing a truly Asian understanding of Christianity. The picture Fox paints of the Asian church is-e-thanks to the FABC~that of a church with strong, Vatican II-inspired leadership. He sees theologians and bishops working closely together, steeped in the reality of Asian peoples, and perhaps increasingly independent of a central authority that they believe really doesn't understand them. Fox may be too optimistic, however. The FABC certainly has produced a number of beautiful and quite visionary documents; but it is not always evident whether its vision has been appropriated by on-the-ground clergy and Asian laity alike. Nevertheless, as one bishop equally optimistically put it at the Roman Synod: "We've got the ideas; we've got the theologies; the rest will follow" (179). One may certainly hope so. As Christianity enters a new era where Asian, African, and Latin American Christians form the majority (and there is even talk of a Third-World pope), Thomas Fox has written convincingly that the West-s-and the rest of the church-shas much to learn from the continent where, after all, Christianity first began.
Missiology: An International Review, 2003
Missiology: An International Review, 2017
International Bulletin of Missionary Research, 2009