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Primal Religious Groups and Mission in a PotModern Context原始宗教团体和后现代语境中的使命

Mission to Primal Religious Groups in a Postmodern Context By John M. Hitchen Introduction: This paper considers the significance of primal religious beliefs and concepts, and groups who adhere to them, within the task of mission in our postmodern context at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The 1910 Conference Legacy: Within the Edinburgh 1910 World Missionary Conference’s overall purpose of considering “missionary problems in relation to the non-Christian World”, Commission IV focussed on “The Missionary message in Relation to Non-Christian religions”. ‘Animistic Religions’ were included: twenty-five of the one hundred and eighty-five responses to Commission IV’s fact-finding questionnaire came from missionaries working amongst ‘animistic’ peoples. The “Animistic Religions” chapter of Commission IV’s Report definitively summarized the challenge of mission amongst such groups for the ensuing century. The Report reflected the respondents’ varying perspectives, and imposed an integrative emphasis compatible with the preferred missionary strategy recommended for other world religions, leaving ample material for continuing academic discussion and debate. This debate most recently assesses the gem-studded 1910 material from the perspective of postmodern or post-colonial discourse. Johannes Warneck, the great German mission administrator and theorist, concluded Conference discussion of Commission IV’s Report, on Saturday 18 June 1910, thus: It is of great importance for all missionaries among the different animistic nations to observe carefully which part of the Gospel is the most needed there, and that should be emphasised first in our preaching. Therefore, we require a careful study of the heathen mind and of the effect of the Gospel on that mind. It is my conviction that Christ is not only the Saviour for all mankind, but that He has a special gift or blessing too for each nation according to its special wants and needs. And so, if we consider the effect