Aotearoa New Zealand mission studies

The Aotearoa New Zealand Association for Mission Studies (ANZAMS) held a mini-symposium at Laidlaw College, Henderson, New Zealand on 30-31 October 2009. The theme was 'From Edinburgh 1910 World Mission Conference to Edinburgh 2010 - Witnessing to Christ Today: Perspectives from Aotearoa/ New Zealand'.

By kind permission of the presenters and with the help of Ian Dally, administrator of Centre for Cross-cultural Ministry of the School of Mission and Ministry at Laidlaw College, the papers are available for download below.

The papers in in order of presentation are as follows:

• Steve Graham, 'Metaphors of Mission in the Gospel of Matthew: Generating a Biblical Paradigm of Mission through Cognitive Analysis of Selected Metaphors'
• Darren Ward, 'Missions and Power'
• John Roxborogh, 'Missiology after Mission: Global Christianities and Mission Studies -- An Emerging Discourse and a Sustainable Model'

• David Foris, 'Dynamic Equivalence Translation'
• Adam Dodds, 'Newbigin's Trinitarian Missiology'
• Rosemary Dewerse, 'Missiologists as Key-holders for Theological Education Reform'
• Ross Langmead, 'Christian Communities in Contemporary Contexts: An Australian Perspective'
• Jono Ryan, 'On the Sense in Which We Can Use the Adjective 'Incarnational' in Mission'

• Hugh Kemp, 'History as Evangelism: Some Initial Critical Reflection on Researching Mongolia's Christian History'
• George Wieland & Andrew Butcher, 'Migrant Theologies: How Migrant Christian Communities in New Zealand Interpret Their Experience Theologically'

• John Hitchen, 'The Place of Primal Religious Groups in Post-modern Mission'
• Peter Lineham, 'Assessing the Impact of New Zealand Missionaries on the World Scene'