Inauguration Of The Asia Missions Association, Seoul, Korea, 1975
PREFACE
We have met together for five days, from August 28 to September 1, 1975, in Seoul, Korea, a city where East and West, North and South meet. We met to advocate anew the urgency of the Christian mission.
The historic gathering, the inaugural convention of the Asia Missions …
All-Asia Missions Consultation, Seoul, Korea, 1973
Having gathered in Seoul from August 27-30, 1973, as Christians with deep concern for the missionary outreach of the Asian churches and having been invited by the Host Committee of Korea for the first All-Asia Mission Consultation, we came from Hong Kong, Indonesia, India, Japan, Korea, Khmer, Malaysia, Philippines, Pakistan, …
Timothy K. Park
Our God is a missionary God. He does not leave us alone. He actively works with us. When God calls us for His kingdom ministry, He provides us necessary gifts. If God looks big to us, the world will look small; if you look at the world as big, God will look small. …
Philo Kim
INTRODUCTION
Unification is a ‘clashing’ of different social entities. It is a shocking process that two heterogenic states should be accustomed to the abruptly changed environment. It will also be a tough process that a socially accustomed entity meets with entirely different human community, so that it leads to much conflict in the realms of …
Esther Maxton
This paper discusses the impact of Japanese international and domestic politics on the Japanese government’s attitude towards Japanese Christians until the end of the Second World War. It reflects on the Japanese government’s reaction to the West’s politics and its effects on Japanese Christians.
Since the arrival of Christianity in 1549 until the end of …
David S. Lim
This article approaches the issue of nominal Christianity (in short, nominalism) as a challenge faced by the Roman Catholic Church (RCC) since Vatican II (1965), particularly in the Philippines. We will show that it is possible to overcome the common failure of almost all Christendom churches in overcoming the static maintenance religiosity of …
Hong Yang
INTRODUCTION
The 20th century has witnessed tremendous progress and transformation through the rapid development of advanced technology and high speed of information expansion and exchange. Due to this progress, the planet earth has been termed by many as a “global village” where its inhabitants are living in such close proximity that it is impossible to …
Edward Ayub
HISTORY OF ISLAM IN BANGLADESH
Bengal was the land of Hindus. Islam came to Bengal through the contextualized approach of Sufi Pirs. Later during the Mughols, economic and social privileges like tax exemption was given to the converts to Islam from Hinduism. Islam preached equality in the Hindu society under the challenge of caste …
Timothy K. Park
“. . . . I have become all things to all people so that by all possible means I might save some.” (1 Cor. 9:22)
The Apostle Paul, a great model for missionaries, confessed that he became all things to all people so that by all possible means he might save some. Do we …
Tu Thien Van Truong
This paper will first present the context in which the Vietnamese Communist Party came into being in the North of Vietnam and its governing system of the entire country after it took over the South in 1975. The next part will review briefly the Vietnamese Protestantism and the forms by which the …