An Attempt at a Theological Analysis of Missionary Motivation

1963 ◽  
Vol os-14 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
H. Richard Niebuhr
Keyword(s):  
Intrinsic Value ◽  
Christian Ethics ◽  
Churches Of Christ ◽  
National Council ◽  
Yale University ◽  
Kind Permission ◽  
Research Committee ◽  
Foreign Missions ◽  
International Missionary Council ◽  
The Church

This article represents a paper prepared under the direction of the Research Committee of the Division of Foreign Missions of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. and presented in April, 1951, as part of the American preparatory study on The Missionary Obligation of the Church”, the theme of the Enlarged Meeting of the International Missionary Council in Willingen. Germany, in 1952 So far as we know, it has never been published. It is presented now because of its intrinsic value and because it is as timely as it was a decade ago, if not more so. Un his death in 1962, Dr. Niebuh was for many years Professor of Theology and Christian Ethics in the Yale University Divinary School. The article is published with the kind permission of Mrs. H. Richard Niebuhr.

Protestant Missionary Obligation at the end of Our Time

1963 ◽  
Vol 14 (6) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Carl Michalson
Keyword(s):  
Churches Of Christ ◽  
Systematic Theology ◽  
National Council ◽  
Foreign Missions ◽  
International Missionary Council ◽  
The Church

This is another article in the preparatory studies on “The Missionary Obligation of the Church” looking toward the Willingen meeting of the international Missionary Council. Presented in 1951 under the auspices of the Division of Foreign Missions of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., its prophetic character is seen more clearly in the perspective of twelve years, for it is more appropriate and helpful now than then. Dr. Michalson is Professor of Systematic Theology at Drew University.

The Unfinished Task of Christopher Columbus

1952 ◽  
Vol 3 (12) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Hugh Bousman
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Churches Of Christ ◽  
National Council ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
The South ◽  
Christopher Columbus ◽  
Foreign Missions ◽  
Christian Churches ◽  
Far Eastern ◽  
General Secretary

(This is an address presented at the Indonesia luncheon meeting of the South East Asia Committee, Division of Foreign Missions, National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., on September 25, 1952. The Reverend Hugh Bousman is Associate General Secretary of the Philippine Federation of Christian Churches. While on furlough he is serving as an associate in the Far Eastern Joint Office. — Editor)

The Premises of Medical Missions

1963 ◽  
Vol 14 (10) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Churches Of Christ ◽  
Medical Council ◽  
National Council ◽  
Medical Missions ◽  
Foreign Missions ◽  
Executive Secretary ◽  
Overseas Work

This document constitutes the Findings of a conference on medical missions held June 5–7, 1963, at Arden House, Harriman, New York, under the auspices of the Christian Medical Council for Overseas Work. The Christian Medical Council, of which Frederick G. Scovel, M.D., is Executive Secretary, is a unit of the Division of Foreign Missions of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. The address is 475 Riverside Drive, New York, New York 10027.

Relief and Rehabilitation as a Part of the Missionary Task

1956 ◽  
Vol os-7 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
A. Russell Stevenson
Keyword(s):  
South Asia ◽  
Near East ◽  
Churches Of Christ ◽  
National Council ◽  
Present Position ◽  
Foreign Missions

The Reverend A. Russell Stevenson is Director of the Program in Asia and Non-European Areas of Church World Service. Before assuming his present position he was the Secretary of the Joint Committee for South Asia and the Near East of the Division of Foreign Missions of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. Previously, he had been a missionary under the United Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions in Egypt.

The Changing and Unchanged Mission

1959 ◽  
Vol os-10 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Eliezar D. Mapanao
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
United Church Of Christ ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Churches Of Christ ◽  
Church Of Christ ◽  
National Council ◽  
Foreign Missions ◽  
Student Work ◽  
Authentic Voice ◽  
World Mission

The following address was delivered at the Annual Assembly of the Division of Foreign Missions, National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America, meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, December 7–10, 1958. The Reverend Eliezer D. Mapanao has been co-pastor of the Ellinwood-Malate Church, Manila, of the United Church of Christ in the Philippines. He has been active also in interdenominational youth and student work in the Philippines end a delegate to several international conferences. At present he is doing graduate study in theology at Harvard Divinity School. We are happy to publish his thoughtful, evangelical and challenging paper. The “younger churches” which have been recipients of mission are now becoming participants in mission and are giving us fresh insights and interpretations en the meaning of the Christian world mission. Here is a new and authentic voice of Asian Christianity. Ed.

The Family of Jesus (Yehsu Chia-t'ing)

1950 ◽  
Vol 1 (11) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Theodore P. Romig
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Research Committee ◽  
Foreign Missions ◽  
Christian Community ◽  
Presbyterian Church ◽  
Communal Life ◽  
The Family ◽  
Independent Churches ◽  
Wide Experience ◽  
International Missionary Council

Information concerning the small christian sects and independent churches in China is very scant. a contribution to our knowledge of one of these groups is most welcome, especially when that group is one which practices communal life based upon the example of the primitive christian community in Jerusalem. It will be very important to observe the fate of a christian communist group under a Marxian communistic regime. It is reported that S. P. Wang has published a book on the group in China, but a copy is not available in the united states. The Rev. Theodore F. Romig is a missionary of wide experience in China and the son of missionary experience. He is professor-elect of Missions at the Mccormick Theological seminary, Chicago, but during the present year is on loan by the Board of Foreign Missions of the presbyterian church in the U.S.A. to the international Missionary council and the Research committee of the Foreign Missions Conference of North America for executive service in the Study of the Missionary Obligation of the Church.–Editor.

Christian Vocation and the Missionary Call

1963 ◽  
Vol os-14 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Charles H. Long
Keyword(s):  
Research Library ◽  
National Council ◽  
International Review ◽  
Episcopal Church ◽  
International Missionary Council ◽  
The Church

This is a reprint of an article prepared as a part of the International Missionary Council Study of “The Missionary Obligation of the Church”, preparatory to the Enlarged Meeting of the IMC held in Willingen, Germany, in July 1952 and published in The International Review of Missions, Vol. 39 (1950), pp. 409–417. It is reprinted by permission from the IRM, from the Overseas Department of the National Council of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the U. S. A., and from the author. The Reverend Charles H. Long, Jr. served for many years as a missionary in China under the Protestant Episcopal Church. This article is chosen for reprinting because it deals with an issue perhaps more live and crucial than was the case a decade ago, and because it is apropos of a new study of missionary motivation, training, and withdrawal being undertaken by the Missionary Research Library.

Christ Existing as Community

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Mawson
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Christian Ethics ◽  
Dietrich Bonhoeffer ◽  
Human Community ◽  
The Social ◽  
Theological Study ◽  
Sanctorum Communio ◽  
The Church

How can theologians recognize the church as a historical and human community, while still holding that it has been established by Christ and is a work of the Spirit? How can a theological account of the church draw insights and concepts from the social sciences, without Christian commitments and claims about the church being undermined or displaced? In 1927, the 21-year-old Dietrich Bonhoeffer defended his licentiate dissertation, Sanctorum Communio: A Theological Study of the Sociology of the Church. This remains his most neglected and misunderstood work. Christ Existing as Community thus retrieves and analyses Bonhoeffer’s engagement with social theory and attempt at ecclesiology. Against standard readings and criticisms of this work, Mawson demonstrates that it contains a rich and nuanced approach to the church, one which displays many of Bonhoeffer’s key influences—especially Luther, Hegel, Troeltsch, and Barth—while being distinctive in its own right. In particular, Mawson argues that Sanctorum Communio’s theology is built around a complex dialectic of creation, sin, and reconciliation. On this basis, he contends that Bonhoeffer’s dissertation has ongoing significance for work in theology and Christian ethics.

On Prophecy and Technocracy

1967 ◽  
Vol 18 (10) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Paul Verghese
Keyword(s):  
Churches Of Christ ◽  
National Council

(Adapted from an address delivered to the Program Board of the Division of Overseas Ministries of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., March 10, 1966)

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