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The International Review of Mission (IRM) is the missiological quarterly of the WCC. Whilst its focus is ecumenical missiology, it also gives a voice to other perspectives, such as those from Pentecostal and Evangelical theologians. Articles and academic papers on important mission events are presented along with book reviews and a detailed bibliography of current literature from the Centre for the Study of Christianity in the Non-Western World (Edinburgh).

Recent and forthcoming issues explore: Health, faith and healing; Bible study and mission; ecclesiology and mission; Christian presence and witness in the Middle East; African Christian Diaspora in Europe; Christian witness in post-modern and secular contexts; critical reading of mission history; mission and inter-religious dialogue; mission as reconciliation and healing.

In addition to planned thematic issues, IRM regularly publishes mixed issues and welcomes unsolicited articles. Please refer to the guidelines for authors to submit your papers.

First published in 1912, the International Review of Mission has accompanied all major mission conferences of the last century. It will act as one of the main channels for papers contributing to the preparation of the next WCC world mission conference in 2005 on the theme: "Come, Holy Spirit – heal and reconcile. Called in Christ to be reconciling and healing communities".

Content of recent issues from January 2002 on
Note: Click to editorials

Editorial - Jacques Matthey

"As the Spirit Gives Utterance": Pentecost, Intra-Christian Ecumenism and the Wider Oikoumene - Amos Yong

Conversion to Christianity: the Colonization of the Mind? - Brian Stanley

Ecclesiologies in Creative Tension: the Church as Ethical and Missional Reality in H. Richard Niebuhr and John H. Yoder - Joon-Sik Park

Practical Theology Today and the Implications for Mission - Dave Hazle

Christian Missions and the Training for Political Leadership in Eastern Nigeria - Nicholas Ibeawuchi Omenka

Partnership in Mission: To Send or to Share? - Colin Marsh

How Can Western Christians Learn from Partners in the World Church? - Philip Thomas

Identity and Purpose Renewed: the Church of Scotland and Worldwide Mission in the 21st Century - Kenneth R. Ross

Babel, Jerusalem and Kumba: Missiological Reflections on Genesis 11:1-9 and Acts 2:1-13 - Hinne Wagenaar

Armed Camps of Faith? - Bernard G. Thorogood

Christian Mission with John V. Taylor - David Wood

The Genesis of "Poet, Priest and Prophet" - David Wood

Book Reviews

Bibliography

Editorial - Jacques Matthey

Birthing Missional Faithfulness: Accents in a North American Movement - George R. Hunsberger

Forming Church, Forming Mission - Mark Lau Branson

Entering the Wreckage: Grief and Hope in Jeremiah, and the Rescripting of the Pastoral Vocation in a Time of Geopolitical Crisis - Chris William Erdman

The Missionary Challenge of Christendom and Modernity in South Africa: A Dutch Reformed Account - Jan H. Nider-Heitmann

Believing without Belonging? In Search of New Paradigms of Church and Mission in Secularized and Postmodern Contexts: Brazilian Insights and "Outsights" - Ari Knebelkamp

Believing without Belonging? - Hilda Lind

Believing without Belonging: Secularism and Religion in India - J. Jayakiran Sebastian

Case Study: Giving them Something to "Luk4" - Mark Charles

Churchless Faith: Trajectories of Faith beyond the Church from Evangelical, Pentecostal and Charismatic Churches to Post-Church Groups - Alan Jamieson

Believing without Belonging? Some Reflections - Jyoti Sahi

Believing without Belonging? Reflections on the Consultation - Wilbert R. Shenk

Encounter with Modernity: The "McDonaldization" and "Charismatization" of Korean Mega-Churches - Hong, Young-gi

Dynamics of Resurrection in the Church's Tradition and Mission - Ion Bria

Book Reviews

Bibliography

Editorial - Jacques Matthey

From Management to Vision: Issues for the British Churches Negotiating Decline and Change - Simon Barrow

Case Study: Building Bridges of Hope - A "Living Laboratory" for Mission-Minded Churches - Simon Barrow

Case Study: The Focolare Movement - Evangelization and Contemporary Culture - Lorna Gold, Dimitrij Bregant

Latin American Pentecostalisms and Western Postmodernism - Reflections on a Complex Relationship - Daniel Chiquete

Mission in Secular and Postmodern Societies: The Example of Germany
An Introduction to the German Presentation at the Breklum Consultation - Klaus Schäfer

The Context of Christian Witness in the 21st Century - Reinhard Hempelmann

Echoes of Modernity in the Theologies and Praxis of Churches in Contemporary Latvia - Valdis Teraudkalns

Ecumenical Missionary Needs and Perspectives in Eastern and Central Europe Today: Theological Education with an Accent on Mission as a first Priority in our Religious Rebirth - Vladimir Fedorov

Searching for a new Paradigm of Church and Mission in a Secularized and Postmodern Context in Korea - Hong Eyoul Hwang

DOCUMENTATION

Reports

Press Release

Bibliography

Guest Editorial - Andrew Williams

Keynote paper: Toward the Fullness of Life: Intercontextual Relationships in Mission - D. Preman Niles

Identity and Plurality: Mission towards Reconciled and Intercontextual Communities - Christopher Duraisingh

Identity and Plurality: A Pentecostal-Charismatic Perspective - Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen

Identity and Plurality - S. Wismoady Wahono

Bible Study: "I am the Lord your God and you shall have no other Gods before me": Identity and Plurality - Monica J. Melanchthon

Healing, Health and Faith Communities
Pentecostal Approaches to Faith and Healing - Allan Anderson

Theological Challenges: Proclaiming the Fullness of Life in the HIV/AIDS and Global Economic Era - Musa W. Dube

Bible Study: The Graveyard Man, the "Escaped Convict" and the Girl-Child: A Mission of Awakening, an Awakening of Mission - Tinyiko Sam Maluleke

New Models of Mission Relationships and Partnership
New Models of Mission Relationship and Partnership - Kai Michael Funkschmidt

Beyond Partnership, towards Networking: A Korean Reflection on Partnership in the Web of God's Mission - Lee, Hong jung

Bible Study: I Corinthians 12
Mission Relationships and Partnership: New Models of Partnership? - Heleen Murre-van den Berg

REPORT: Toward the Fullness of Life Intercontextual Relationships in Mission
Report from a Missiology Consultation, London, England, 14-19 April, 2002

DOCUMENTATION

Conference on World Mission and Evangelism 2005. Report form the CWME Conference Planning Committee to the WCC Central Committee (August 2002)

Bibliography

Editorial - Jacques Matthey

The Churches of Europe - "Are We Still of Any Use?" - Keith Clements

A Theological Perspective: The Common Missionary Vocation of Mainline and Migrant Churches - Werner Kahl

The Function of the Other in Recent German Mission Calls - Arnd Bünker

"As the Father has Sent Me, I am Sending You": Lesslie Newbigin's Missionary Ecclesiology - Michael W. Goheen

Holism and Popular Grassroots Movements - Stephen Armet

A Study of Qoheleth (Ecclesiastes) 9:1-12 - Mercedes García Bachmann

Partnership between Unequals - Mission Impossible? Mission Structures Revisited - Kai Michael Funkschmidt

DOCUMENTATION

International and Global Inter-Religious Initiatives - A WCC Consultation

Jesus Christ Heals and Reconciles - Our Witness in Europe, Theme Paper for the 12th Assembly of the Conference of European Churches (CEC)

Book Review

Bibliography

Editorial - Jacques Matthey

The Pentecostal Movement and Basic Ecclesial Communities in Latin America: Sociological Theories and Theological Debates - Michael Bergunder

Toward a Pneumatological Theology of Religions: A Pentecostal-Charismatic Inquiry - Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen

Relevant Patterns of Christian Witness in Pluralistic Societies: An Indian Perspective - Jesudas M. Athyal

Dialoguing with the Biocosmic Aspects of Melanesian Religions: A Missiological Perspective - Ennio Mantovani, svd

Towards Intercultural Contextual Bible Study: A Review of the Adoption of Contextual Bible Study (from South Africa) in the West of Scotland - Eric Anum

St Anne's Day - A Time to "Turn Home" for the Canadian Mi'kmaq Indians - Anne-Christine Hornborg

School for Progress: The Re-routing of BCMS Missionaries into Education for the End of Empire in Karamoja, Uganda - Ben P. Knighton

Book Reviews

Bibliography

Editorial - Jacques Matthey

WISDOM

"When all the Singing has Stopped"
Ecclesiastes: A Modest Mission in Unpredictable Times - John Prior

Missiological Dimensions in the Book of Job - Daniel C. van Zyl

Love over Gold: The Song of Songs for Aotearoa-New Zealand - Stephen J. Bennett

Jonah: From a Prophetic Mission in Reverse to Inter-Religious Dialogue - Karel Steenbrink

COLOSSIANS

Something in the Air - Helmut Renard and Cristian Tauchner

In Him All Things Hold Together: A Missiological Reading of Colossians 1:15-20 - Teresa Okure

MATTHEW

Matthew, Mission and Method - Johannes Nissen

Poverty and the Mission-Charity Trend - A Perspective on the Gospel of Matthew - Emmanuel M. Jacob

Mission and the Apocalyptic - A Perspective from Matthew - Bob Wielenga

Pilgrims, Seekers and Disciples - Mission and Dialogue in Matthew - Jacques Matthey

Book Reviews

Bibliography

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