Mormon Missionary Training Centers

2019 ◽  
pp. 981-983
Author(s):  
Matthew L. Martinich
Keyword(s):  
Missionary Training

Preaching the Restored Gospel: John Nicholson's Homiletic Theories for Young Mormons

2009 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 420-445
Author(s):  
Michael C. Souders
Keyword(s):  
Division Of Labor ◽  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Rhetorical Theory ◽  
Missionary Training ◽  
The Holy Spirit

John Nicholson's The Preceptor is the first book dedicated to an explicitly Mormon rhetorical theory, which he attempts to employ in the troubled landscape of LDS missionary training. This essay examines Nicholson's advice to missionaries, and argues that The Preceptor links logos and the Holy Spirit together in homiletic division of labor, connecting traditional Christian preaching with indigenous Mormon style and theology. By studying The Preceptor we can gain an appreciation for how rhetorical theories develop specific features that reflect a particular culture's location in history and society, and examine a rhetoric that served as an alternative to mainstream American religious and secular rhetorical development.

Essential Alternatives to Contemporary Missionary Training: For the Sake of Vulnerability to the Majority World (Africa)

2019 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 266-279
Author(s):  
Jim Harries
Keyword(s):  
The West ◽  
Christian Mission ◽  
Majority World ◽  
Missionary Training ◽  
Client Relationships

When the only advice on offer is unhelpful, a potential missionary might need to be advised to seek an alternative. Jesus, we take it, was not building a worldly empire (John 18:36). Christian mission has become associated with colonialism. Dominant advice often pushes Western missionaries to positions of strength. In order to be vulnerable, one needs an alternative to such advice. Economic domination of Africa by the West makes it hard to know when Africa’s people, long engrossed in patron/client relationships, are not talking for power. Use of English to describe Africa leads to massive false imputing of Western histories onto African societies. A little linguistic wisdom exposes the naivety of many contemporary understandings of the acumen of translation.

Missionary Preaching

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Rex Galindo
Keyword(s):  
Spanish America ◽  
Colonial Society ◽  
Missionary Training ◽  
Political Virtues ◽  
Eternal Salvation

This chapter focuses on the contents of sermons and pláticas preached in the Franciscan popular missions. Franciscan missionaries from the apostolic colleges of propaganda fide conducted itinerant preaching campaigns on the streets of hamlets, towns, haciendas, and cities throughout Spain and Spanish America. They were armed with a tailored message aimed at converting sinners and ensuring their eternal salvation. In addition to their doctrinal purpose to convert nominal Catholics, written sermons and pláticas were used as textbooks for missionary training. The chapter first provides an overview of the Franciscan science of oratory—homiletics, the art of religious preaching, or ars praedicandi—before discussing the Franciscan friars' preachings about moral, social, and political virtues. It shows how missionaries viewed colonial society while also providing an idea of the intellectual background of sermon authors.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Rex Galindo
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Training Program ◽  
Spanish America ◽  
Missionary Training ◽  
Eternal Salvation ◽  
The Church

This book examines the role played by the Franciscan friars of propaganda fide in the expansion and consolidation of Catholicism in the eighteenth-century Hispanic world. More specifically, it investigates the conversion agenda of the Franciscan Order's Colleges for the Propagation of the Faith and their missionaries in Spanish America and Spain. It shows how Franciscan colleges developed an extensive, methodical missionary program aimed at converting both Catholics and non-Christians. The Franciscan missionaries focused not only on the recruitment of non-Catholics for their eternal salvation under the umbrella of the Church, but also on the salvation of the sinners who were otherwise condemned to hell. This introduction provides a summary of the chapters that follow, covering topics such as the recruitment of novices and friars, the missionary training program in the Franciscan colleges, the misiones populares, and the contents of sermons and pláticas preached in the popular missions.

Sexual Abuse in a Korean Evangelical Church in Japan

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 208-240
Author(s):  
Yoshihide Sakurai
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Church Growth ◽  
Religious Community ◽  
Christian Community ◽  
Missionary Training ◽  
Pentecostal Churches ◽  
The Media ◽  
Total Dependence ◽  
Community Forces

Abstract A case of sexual abuse by the supervisor of the Central Church of Holy God (Seishin Chūō Kyōkai 聖神中央教会) in 2005 has led many in the Japanese Christian community and the media to question the “cultification” of the Christian church. This paper will consider the incident and its background, one negative aspect of “church growth” in Japan, in which Korean evangelical and Pentecostal churches competed vigorously to attract devotees. The pastor who founded this church was a Korean resident in Japan who had studied theology and the propagation methodology in South Korea, allowing him to realize church growth in notoriously non-Christian Japan. Yet, his top-down authoritative management suppressed believers’ spiritual and physical freedom of religion. In the following case study, I consider how the asymmetrical relations among church members contributed to this religious abuse. After taking into account issues of missionary training, proselytization methodology, and social strata, I suggest that a dysfunction within the “comprehensive religious community” forces members’ total dependence on pastors in their belief as well as their lives.

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