History of Mission (WM603)
Spring 2013 T & Th 8:00 - :9:25 AM
Instructor: Kevin Xiyi Yao
Office Hours:
Hours Room GL 114, ?
(Always best to make appointment)
Contact Information: E--mail: xyao@gordonconwell.edu; Tel: 978-646-4286
4286
Byington Scholar: ?
Course Website:: Log into sakai.gcts.edu and click on the tab labeled
“WM 603 HA-12”.
Course Description and Objective
This course provides an overview of the historical progress of the Christian missions
mission
from its inception to the present. It seeks to explore Christian missions from
historical and missiological perspectives. The Learning Objectives of this course are
stated as follows:
Learning Objectives
1, By the depiction of the historical expansion of the Christian missions
mission and those
figures and events involved, the student will identify the different mission patterns or
paradigms characteristic
ic of different eras and regions
regions. The student will highlight,
analyze, and reflect upon the
he missional strategies,
ies, methods, principles, theological
thinking relevant to each paradigm.
2, By illustrating the multi-cultural
cultural nature of Christian missions and global reach of
Christian community and by focusing not on the Christian experience in the West,
but by exploring the church histories in Asia, Africa, Latin America and other regions,
the student will comprehend the diversity of the Christian experience, thoughts, and
history in multi-ethnic and cultural contexts. The “untold” stories of the marginal
groups will receive special attention.
3, The students’ interests in Christian world missions will be stimulated and they will
reflect on the missionary movement. Students will draw lessons from history
ory and
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integrate them into their own experiences in contemporary contexts. They will learn
to become a member of the global Christian movement.
Requirements
1, Two integration papers summarizing course contents, readings, and personal
reflections. Length: ten pages for each, double-spaced, turned in the middle and end
of the term. The due dates: ? Hard copies are required. (40%)
2, One research paper. The subjects must be related to the course topics and need
to be approved by the instructor. The length: 20-25 pp, double-spaced, with
footnotes and bibliography as needed. Research paper topic due date: ?
. A hard copy is required. (50%)
3, Class presentation: In Week 12 , 13 and 14 each student is required to present the
results of their research for the term paper to the whole class, and responsible for 25
minutes in one class session, including presentation and Q & A time. Each student
can design the format of their presentation, and employ any audio-video means or
multi-media to articulate their points.(10%)
Assignment and Grading Summary
Assignments should be turned in (hard copy) in class on the due date.
Assignment
Weight
Due Date
Integration Journals:
40%
March 18
April 30
Research Paper and Class
Presenation
60%
February 27
Week 12, 13, 14
April 30
Required Textbooks
Bosch, David, J., Transforming Mission, Paradigm Shifts in Theology of Mission,
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Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 1991（ISBN 0-88344-719-3）.
Irvin, Dale T., Sunquist Scott W., History of World Christian Movement, Vol I: Earliest
Christianity to 1453, Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 2001 (ISBN 1-57075-396-2).
-----------, History of the World Christian Movement - Vol II: Modern Christianity
from 1454-1800 New York: Orbis Books, 2012 (ISBN-10: 1570759898;
ISBN-13:978-1570759895)
Neill, Stephen, A History of Christian Missions, Revised edition, London: Penguin
Books, 1991 (ISBN-10: 0140137637; ISBN-13: 978-0140137637)
Robert, Dana L., Christian Mission, How Christianity Became a World Religion,
Wiley-Blackwell, 2009 (ISBN 978-0-631-23620-7).
* Students are encouraged to read the required materials before each class session
in order to facilitate class discussions.
Other Texts Included in Readings
Covell, Ralph R., Confucius, the Buddha, and Christ , Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books,
1986 (ISBN 0-88344-267-1).
Gallagher, Robert L. and Paul Hertig eds., Landmark Essays in Mission and World
Christianity, Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 2009 (ISBN 978-1-57075-829-4).
Gonzalez, Justo L., The Changing Shape of Church History, St. Louis, MI: Chalice
Press, 2002 (ISBN 0-8272-0490-6)).
Jenkins, Philip, The Lost History of Christianity: The Thousand-year Golden Age of the
Church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia---and How It Died, New York: Haperone,
2008 (ISBN 978-0-06-147280-0)
Jenkins, Philip, The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity, Oxford
University Press, 2002 (ISBN 0-19-514616-6).
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Lemopoulos, George, ed. Your Will Be Done, Orthodoxy in Mission, Geneva: WCC
Publications, 1989 ( ISBN 2-8254-0951-0)
Moffett, Samuel H., A History of Christianity in Asia, 2 vols , New York: Harper-Collins,
1991( Vol. I: ISBN1-57075-162-5; Vol II: ISBN 1-57075-450-0).
Noll, Mark A., The New Shape of World Christianity: How American Experience
Reflects Global Faith ,Downers Grove III: IVP Academic 2009 (ISBN
978-0-8308-2847-0).
Sanneh, Lamin, Translating the Message, The Missionary Impact on Culture ,
Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis, 2009 (ISBN 9781570758).
Sullivan, Richard E., Christian Missionary Activity in the Early Middle Ages, Variorum,
1994( ISBN 0-86078-402-9).
Walls, Andrew, The Cross-Cultural Process in Christian History, Maryknoll, NY: Orbis
Books, 2002 (ISBN 0-567-08869-3)
-----------, The Missionary Movement in Christian History, Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books,
1996 (ISBN 0-567-08515-5).
Wuthnow, Robert, Boundless Faith: The Global Outreach of American Churches,
University of California Press, 2010 (ISBN-10: 0520268083; ISBN-13:
978-0520268081)
Supplementary Articles
Deyneka, Peter, “Evangelical Foreign Missionaries in Russia,” International Bulletin of
Missionary Research, Vol. 22, No.3 (April 1998): 56-60.
Kuzmic, Peter, “The Communist Impact on the Church in Eastern Europe,” Evangelical
review of Theology, Vol.20, No.1 (January 1996): 60-76.
Moon, Steve S.C., “The Recent Korean Missionary Movement: A Record of Growth,
and More Growth Needed,” International Bulletin of Missionary Research, Vol.27, N.1,
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(January 2003): 11-16.
Padilla, Rene, “The Future of Christianity in Latin America: Missiological Perspectives
and Challenges,” International Bulletin of Missionary Research,(July 1999): 105-111.
Tennent, Timothy, “The Challenge of Churchless Christianity: An Evangelical
Assessment,” International Bulletin of Missionary Research, Vol.29, No.4 (October,
2005): 171-177.
Topics, Schedule, and Required Readings:
Week 1, Introduction: review of syllabus; the methods and current trends
of the study of church and mission histories.
Readings:
Gonzalez, 7-32, 145-154
Walls, “Christianity in the Non-Western World, A Study in the Serial Nature
of Christian Expansion,” in The Cross-Cultural Process, 27-47
_____. “The Gospel as Prisoner and Liberator of Culture,” in The
Missionary Movement in Christian History, 3-15
_____. “The Translation Principle in Christian History,” in The Missionary
Movement in Christian History, 26-42
Week 2, The early church: global perspective; Roman Empire; the Eastern
Church: Nestorians.
Readings:
Robert, 10-21,
Dale & Sunquist, 22-44, 57--96, 160-165
Neill, 13-52, 179-187
Bosch, 195-218
Week 3 The Eastern Church: Nestorians.
Readings:
Jenkins, The Lost History of Christianity, 1-70
Dale & Sunquist, 195-239, 364-369, 440-449
Neill, 179-187
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Lemopoulos, 63-79, 217-219
Week 4, Reading Week
Readings:
Sanneh, 13-61, 252-276
Week 5, Roman Catholic Church and the medieval ages: mission thinking
and models; the Crusaders, and monasticism.
Readings:
Robert, 21-30
Bosch, 219-243
Irvin & Sunquist, 323-353, 372-380, 395-422
Neil, 120-178
Sullivan, 17-32
Research paper topic due.
Week 6, The Reformation Era
Readings:
Bosch, 244-267
Week 7, The Revivals and the Inception of Modern Missionary Movement.
Readings:
Robert, 31-48
Neil, 120-204
Week 8,
The 19th Century: “The Great Century of church mission.”
Readings:
Robert, 48-52
Bosch, 268-356
Neil, 222-334,
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The first integration paper due.
Week 9, Reading Week
Readings:
Covell, Preface, 20-84, 224-253
Week 10,
The First Half of the 20th Century
Robert, 53-67
Neil, 380-425
Week 11,
The contemporary missions: the dynamics of global movement;
The rise of the world Christianity;
Readings:
Robert, 67-79
Dana L. Robert, “Shifting Southward: Global Christianity since
1945,” in Gallagher and Hertig eds., Landmark Essays in Mission and World
Christianity, 46-62
Noll, 19-37
Jenkins, The Next Christendom, 89-139
Week 12, Presentations
Week 13, Presentations
Week 14, Final Exam Week
Presentations
The second integration paper due.
Research paper due.
All topics are subject to change without notice.
Selected Bibliography
Anderson, Gerald H. ed., Biographical Dictionary of Christian Mission (Grand Rapids,
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MI: Eerdmans, 1998).
Bass, Diana Butler, A People’s History of Christianity, The Other Side of the Story,
(New York, NY: HarperOne, 2009).
Baum, Wilhelm and Dietmar W. Winkler, The Church of the East: A Concise History
(RoutledgeCurzon, 2003).
Bays, Daniel H., A New History of Christianity in China (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011).
Bediako, Kwame, Christianity in Africa, The Renewal of a Non-Western Religion
(Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 1995).
Bosch, David, J., Transforming Mission, Paradigm Shifts in Theology of Mission
(Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 1991).
Comby, Jean, How to Understand the History of Christian Mission (SCM Press, 1996).
Covell, Ralph R., Confucius, the Buddha, and Christ (Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books,
1986).
Davies, Noel A., World Christianity in the Twentieth Century, (London: SCM Press,
2008).
Dussel, Enrique, A History of the Church in Latin America, (Grand Rapids, MI:
Eerdmans, 1981).
Edwards, David L., The Future of Christianity, An Analysis of Historical, Contemporary
and Future Trends within the Worldwide Church (Morehouse-Barlow, 1987).
Gonzalez, Justo L., The Changing Shape of Church History ( St. Louis, MI: Chalice Press,
2002).
Gonzalez, Ondina E. and Justo L. Gonzalez, Christianity in Latin America, A History
(Cambridge University Press, 2008).
Hanciles, Jehu J., Beyond Christendom: Globalization, African Migration, and the
Transforming of the West (Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 2008).
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Hastings, Adrian, ed., A World History of Christianity, Grand Rapid, MI:
Eerdmans, 1999(ISBN 0802824420).
William B.
Hylson-Smith, Kenneth, To the Ends of the Earth: The Globalization of Christianity
(London: Paternoster, 2007).
Hastings, Adrian: A World History of Christianity ( William B. Eerdmans, 1999).
Hunt, Robert A., The Gospel among the Nations: A Documentary history of
Inculturation (Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis, 2010).
Irvin, Dale T., Sunquist Scott W., History of World Christian Movement, Vol I: Earliest
Christianity to 1453 ( Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 2001).
Isichei, Elizabeth, A History of Christianity in Africa, From Antiquity to the Present
(Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 1995).
Jenkins, Philip, The New Faces of Christianity: Believing the Bible in the Global South
(Oxford University Press, 2006).
------, The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity (Oxford University
Press, 2002).
------, The Lost History of Christianity: The Thousand-year Golden Age of the Church in
the Middle East, Africa, and Asia---and How It Died ( New York: Haperone, 2008).
Kalu, Ogbu U., ed. African Christianity: An African Story (Pretoria: University of
Pretoria, 2005).
------， ed. Interpreting Contemporary Christianity, Global Processes and Local
Identities (Grand rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2008).
Kim, Sebastian and Kirsteen Kim, Christianity as a World Religion (London:
Continuum, 2008).
Lan Xi, Redeemed by Fire, The Rise of Popular Christianity in Modern China (New
Heaven, CT: Yale University Press, 2010).
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Latourette, Kenneth Scott, A History of the Expansion of Christianity, 7 vols
(Zondervan, 1970).
-----, A History of Christianity, 2 vols. (HarperSanFrancisco, 1975).
Lemopoulos, George, ed. Your Will Be Done, Orthodoxy in Mission (Geneva: WCC
Publications, 1989).
Maxwell, David, ed. Christianity and the African Imagination (Leiden, Brill, 2002).
Moffett, Samuel H., A History of Christianity in Asia, 2 vols (New York: harper-Collins,
1991).
Neill, Stephen, A History of Christian Missions, (London: Penguin Books, 1986).
Noll, Mark A., The New Shape of World Christianity: How American Experience
Reflects Global Faith (Downers Grove III: IVP Academic 2009).
Robert, Dana L., Christian Mission, How Christianity Became a World Religion
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2009).
------, American Women in Mission, A Social History of their Thought and Practice
(Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1996).
Sanneh, Lamin, Translating the Message, The Missionary Impact on Culture
(Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis, 2009).
-----, Disciples of All Nations: Pillars of World Christianity ( Oxford University Press,
2008).
Schmemann, Alexander, Historical Road of Eastern Orthodoxy (Crestwood, NY: St.
Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1977).
Shenk, Wilbert R., ed., North American Foreign Missions, 1810-1914, Theology,
Theory, and Policy (Grand Rapids, Eerdmans, 2004).
Spencer, Stephen, SCM Study Guide to Christian Mission, Historic Types and
Contemporary Expressions ( London: SCM Press, 2007).
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Sullivan, Richard E., Christian Missionary Activity in the Early Middle Ages (Variorum,
1994).
Thomas, Norman E., Classic Texts in Mission and World Christianity (Maryknoll, N.Y.:
Orbis Books, 1995).
Walls, Andrew, The Missionary Movement in Christian History (Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis
Books, 1996).
-------, The Cross-Cultural Process in Christian History (Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books,
2002).
Wijsen, F.J.S and Robert Schreiter, eds., Global Christianity: Contested Claims (New
York: Rodopi, 2007).
Winter, Ralph D., and Steven C. Hawthorne, eds., Perspectives on the World Christian
Movement (Pasadena, CA: William Carey Library, 2009).
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