Book reviews
Reviews of the books shaping mission thinking and practice. Page 18 of 40 · 942 in all.
The Big Surprise: A History of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in the Congo 1885-1908
Reviewed by Boaz Johnson
Kingdom Pursuit: Exploring the Many Facets of Missions
Reviewed by Cameron D. Armstrong
Receptor-Oriented Communication for Hui Muslims in China, with Special Reference to Church Planting
Reviewed by Richard Hibbert
Voices from the Field: Conversations with Our Global Family
Reviewed by Dennis J. Horton
Going Global: A Congregation’s Introduction to Mission Beyond Our Borders
Reviewed by Hoon Jung
Worldview-based Storying: The Integration of Symbol, Story, and Ritual in the Orality Movement
Reviewed by Seth Bouchelle
Traditional Ritual as Christian Worship: Dangerous Syncretism or Necessary Hybridity?
Reviewed by Hoon Jung
The Fellowship of the Suffering: How Hardship Shapes Us for Ministry and Mission
Reviewed by Ryan Klejment-Lavin
Teaching English for Reconciliation: Pursuing Peace Through Transformed Relationships
Reviewed by David R. Dunaetz
Stubborn Perseverance: How to Launch Multiplying Movements
Reviewed by Dr. Eva I. Shaw-Taylor
Pipeline: Engaging the Church in Missionary Mobilization
Reviewed by Ed Scheuerman
By Prayer to the Nations: A Short History of SIM
Reviewed by Dwight P. Baker
Acclimated to Africa: Cultural Competence for Westerners
Reviewed by Birgit Herppich
A Christian Reads the Qur’an: Honest Reading, Honest Reflection
Reviewed by Gail Schlosser
Toward Global Missional Leadership: A Journey Through Paradigm Shift in the Mission of God
By Kirk J. Franklin. Reviewed by Alexander K. Zell, assistant professor, Crown College, St. Bonifacius, Minnesota, former international worker in Brazil with The Alliance.
Third Culture Kids: Growing Up Among Worlds, 3rd Edition
By David C. Pollock, Ruth E. Van Reken, and Michael V. Pollock. Reviewed by Cheryl Doss PhD, adult missionary kid, missionary mother and grandmother, is director of the Institute of World Mission, the missionary training organization of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.
The Spirit Over the Earth: Pneumatology in the Majority World
Gener L. Green, Stephen T. Pardue, and K.K. Yeo, eds. Reviewed by A. Sue Russell, Professor of Mission and Contextual Studies, Asbury Theological Seminary, Wilmore, Kentucky.
The New Odyssey: The Story of the Twenty-First-Century Refugee Crisis
By Patrick Kingsley. Reviewed by Jamie N. Sanchez, PhD, Assistant Professor and Program Director of PhD Intercultural Studies, Cook School of Intercultural Studies, Biola University, La Mirada, California.
The Godless Delusion: Europe and Africa
By Jim Harries. Reviewed by Prof. Rajkumar Boaz Johnson, PhD Professor of Biblical and Theological Studies North Park University, Visiting Professor SHIATS University Allahabad, India.
Spirituality in Mission: Embracing the Lifelong Journey
John Amalraj, Geoffrey W. Hahn, and William D. Taylor, eds. Reviewed by Tabor Laughlin, Intercultural Studies PhD student at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (TEDS), missionary in China ten years, leader of a small mission agency in NW China, and author of Becoming Native to Win the Natives.
Shaping Christianity in Greater China: Indigenous Christians in Focus
By Paul Woods. Reviewed by John Doss, senior pastor, Discovery Christian Community, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Protestants Abroad: How Missionaries Tried to Change the World but Changed America
By David A Hollinger. Reviewed by Richard Cook, Associate Professor of Church History and Missions at Logos Evangelical Seminary in El Monte, California. He served as a missionary in Taiwan for over ten years and has a PhD in Modern Chinese History from the University of Iowa.
Engaging Muslims & Islam: Lessons for 21st-Century American Evangelicals
By Amit A. Bhatia. Reviewed by Fred Farrokh, Global Initiative: Reaching Muslim Peoples.
Transforming Mission Theology by Charles Van Engen
As Charles Van Engen explains in his introduction, this book is about “doing mission theology”. He describes mission theology as “an activity that seeks to discern what God wants to do primarily through God’s people at a specific time, place and context in God’s world”.