美国学生海外志愿传教运动与中华基督教学生立志传道团

19世纪末20世纪初,美国基督教历史上形成了以高等教育机构青年学生为基础、鼓励他们志愿到国外进行传教事业的学生志愿海外传教运动.运动将这些学生的三分之一都派到了中国,直接影响到中国的传教事业.受其工作理念和方式的直接影响,中华基督教学生立志传道团于1910年成立,促使许多学生接受基督教并成为神职人员,是中国基督教学生运动的主要力量之一,但在30年代以后消失于无形之中.它是20世纪初期中国基督教史上产生于学生界和知识分子界,面向学生和知识分子布道,劝导他们成为教会神职人员的团体.     

试论利玛窦的传教方式

本文认为明末来华的耶稣会传教士利玛窦借助伦理哲学和自然科学传教的方式深受欧洲文艺复兴和宗教改革时代精神的影响，利玛窦首先在非基督教文明中找到中西方共同的人文价值，以此为传播天主教打下基础。利玛窦及其后继者通过交友和理性论辩等途径，使一部分中国士大夫皈依了天主教。在利玛窦的传教方式中，手段与目的之间达到统一与和谐。     

当代国际传教运动研究的“四个跨越”

20世纪60年代尤其是冷战结束以来,宗教在全世界范围迅速增长,各种跨国宗教运动和现象风起云涌,其中国际传教运动的突飞猛进尤为引人注目,这不仅在很大程度上改变了世界宗教布局,而且对人们关于传教运动的传统看法和理论范式形成了具有颠覆性的挑战。本文主要针对当前国际传教运动的发展趋势和国内学界对传教运动尤其是基督教传教运动研究的现状,提出"国际视野、当代关怀"以及实现"四个跨越"的研究设想,以对全球宗教复兴作更加全面的学术回应。     

The Identification of Selling Abilities Needed for Missionary Type Sales

This field study using salespeople, sales managers, and physicians identified 14 abilities necessary for successful pharmaceutical salespeople, the prototypical missionary sales position. Six of the abilities were identified by all three parties and make up the core requirements while one ability was recognized by physicians and not the other two groups. Finally, this research offers suggestions, based on the 14 identified abilities, for recruiting and sales training efficiencies to improve salesperson performance.     

从司徒雷登看传教士和传教运动

司徒雷登是近代基督教传教士的典型人物。他一生做了两件对中国社会有影响的大事,一是办教育,尤其是成功创办燕京大学,获得中美各界赞誉;二是当美国驻华大使,以失败告终。他在中国办教育、出任大使,是为了同一个目的:以基督教精神改造中国。他爱中国,但更爱美国。他努力融合中西文化,提倡基督教本色化。从司徒雷登身上,可以看出:中国近代基督教传教运动是列强对外扩张的组成部分,而传教士往往是出于宗教热情参与其中。传教士主观上是传教,客观上促进了中西文化交流。今天,在殖民体系崩溃、全球经济一体化、区域文化多元化的时代背景下,依附于殖民体系的"差传"模式已成历史,取而代之的只能是相互交流和合作。     

A Missionary Church: Introduction and Chapter One of Evangelii Gaudium

The article provides a summary and synthesis of the Introduction and Chapter One of Evangelii Gaudium (EG 1–18 and 19–49), where Pope Francis outlines his vision of the church and the program of his pontificate. He envisions the church as fundamentally a missionary church and sees the role of his pontificate as bringing about the transformation of the church into a missionary church. The article concludes by showing that Pope Francis’ vision of the church in EG echoes Vatican II's decree Ad Gentes and is shaped by his experience of the church in Latin America. Thus, it ends with two observations: first, that with EG, Ad Gentes’ statement that “the Church is missionary by her very nature” ceases to be merely a theological declaration and now becomes a concrete pastoral program of action; and second, that EG, where the concerns of the third world are allowed to shape the vision of the universal church, is an eloquent manifestation of the church becoming a World Church.     

Trinitarian Missiology: Towards a Theology of God as Missionary1

Abstract: This article explores the possibilities of using ‘missionary’ as an attribute of God, as has been done recently in some ecclesial discourse. To this end, it offers an exegesis of John 20:21–23 via expositions of Augustine's discussion of the divine missions in De Trinitate, Barth's account of election, and the Lateran condemnation of Joachim of Fiore, and a discussion of the relationship between trinitarian theology and the divine attributes.     

晚清巴黎外方传教会在广西民族山区传教活动述论

本文在查阅相关中外文献史料和多次实地田野的基础上,以几个典型的少数民族堂点为中心,梳理了晚清时期巴黎外方传教士在桂西民族山区、桂中大瑶山区及桂南十万大山等三个广西民族山区的传播历史与现状,并分析其传教特点及由此形成的地处边远而文化多元的"山区教会"。     

“De Facto Congregationalism” and Mormon Missionary Outreach: An Ethnographic Case Study

A number of theorists in the sociology of religion hold that denominations in the United States have remained vital by decentralizing power, and shifting control from central hierarchies to individual congregations: a strategy dubbed “de facto congregationalism.” However, changes in the polity of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the LDS, or Mormon, Church) contravene this trend. Unlike most denominations, Mormonism—a vital faith by all accounts—has centralized its authority and standardized its programs in recent decades. This article investigates whether the logic of de facto congregationalism applies to Mormonism. From a case study of missionary outreach in an LDS congregation, I investigate how mandates from the church's central headquarters are interpreted and implemented at the grassroots level. My findings show that the church's centralized polity may hinder the functioning of Mormon congregations outside traditional strongholds in Utah and the Intermountain West—a finding consistent with the logic of de facto congregationalism.     

Agency,Identity and Ecumenicalism in the American Missionary Schools of Tripoli,Lebanon

ABSTRACT

When the American Protestant Mission in Syria entered the educational arena of nineteenth-century Tripoli, its administrators founded long-lasting educational institutions primarily for the purpose of converting souls to Protestant Christianity. Secondarily, missionaries sought to impose ideas of gender and class on their students. Through previously unexamined memoirs, school records, and missionary writings, this article offers a microhistorical analysis of the Tripoli Girls' School (est. 1873) and the Tripoli Boys' Boarding School (est. 1904). This study begins by situating the schools within the broader context of an increasingly peripheralized and predominantly Sunni Muslim city, showing that the geographical, social, and educational environment of Tripoli shaped and was shaped by the boarding schools. It explores two trends within the Tripoli schools, namely, the ‘professionalization’ of female students, and the reification of class divisions, as Tripoli was integrated into a system of global capitalism. Finally, it moves beyond narratives of ‘secularization’ and argues that students played a significant role in shifting the emphasis of missionary education away from religious conversion to an educational model of interreligious cooperation that saw Muslims and Christians as partners in a syncretic endeavour.     

论美部会开辟中国传教站的背景与动因

1830年,美部会开辟了美国基督新教在中国的第一个传教站。作为美国首个派遣传教士来华的海外传教机构,美部会是中美早期文化交流的主要推动者。这一组织的旨趣根植于美国深厚的社会文化土壤之中:它是美国本土对印第安人传教活动的延续和发展,同时又受到了以爱德华兹、霍普金斯等宗教神学家为代表的新神学派的影响。在教会长期准备工作的基础上,经营广州同孚行的美国商人奥利芬的呼吁成为美部会派遣对华传教士的直接诱因,裨治文来华则正式拉开了美部会在华传教活动的序幕。