Book reviews
Reviews of the books shaping mission thinking and practice. Page 25 of 40 · 942 in all.
Evangelism after Christendom: The Theology and Practice of Christian Witness
Evangelism is a bad word. Evangelism conveys an attitude of superiority that is offensive to Western cultural ideals and cultures dominated by religions other than Christianity. If this is the position of many within Western culture, where is evangelism’s place in these postmodern days?
China’s Christian Martyrs
Hattaway does the reader a service by keeping the book unbiased as he even-handedly relates persecution of Christ-followers across Mainland China.
Called to Reach: Equipping Cross-Cultural Disciplers
The mission community is indebted to Yount and Barnett for providing such a tool in this transformational book that touches both head and heart with biblical balance.
A Vision of the Possible: Pioneer Church Planting in Teams
In this practical church planting guide, Daniel Sinclair draws from years of experience working as both a field director for a major missions agency, overseeing 750 field workers, and in ministry in the Middle East.
The New Faces of Christianity: Believing the Bible in the Global South
Philip Jenkins demonstrates how close the thought world of the global South is to that of the first century culture of the Bible.
More Than Serving Tea: Asian American Women on Expectations, Relationships, Leadership and Faith
Five Asian female authors write eloquently with exceptional honesty and courage about how each of their own cultures fashioned them and how God uses that ethnic identity in ministry.
Mission Handbook 2007-2009: U.S. and Canadian Protestant Ministries
The Mission Handbook is an essential book for at least two reasons: first, as the key directory and reference tool for our North American missions movement and second, as a definitive report on the progress (or decline), achievement (or lack) and health (or illness) of our sprawling, diverse, God-driven regional…
Missiological Models in Ministry to Muslims
Schlorff confronts those who take contextualization too far in respect to Muslims.
Integral Ministry Training Design and Evaluation
“May God give us grace and creativity to push the boundaries, to create, to re-evaluate, to change, to redesign, and to serve with greater effectiveness and servanthood.” This is the challenge given to all involved in mission training in this new book.
God’s Rivals: Why Has God Allowed Different Religions?
This volume’s chief value is found in its summary and analysis of four ante-Nicene Church fathers who dealt with the issue of religious systems in competition with Christianity.
C. Stacey Woods and the Evangelical Rediscovery of the University
This biography of C. Stacey Woods (1909-1983) is the story of how American college and university campuses became both a mission field and a fertile source of thousands of new missionaries.
Contextualization and Syncretism: Navigating Cultural Currents
Discussions of contextualization among evangelicals inevitably provoke a niggling question: How far can we go in making the gospel relevant within human cultures and contexts without giving away too much of the gospel in the process?
Communication, Media, and Identity
This book should be read, absorbed and its insights worked out in all evangelical ministries.
Can It Be Me?
Marjory Foyle has finally written her autobiography, which is great news to those of us who consider ourselves humbled to be her legacy of open and honest struggles and caregiving.
Reproducible Pastoral Training: Church Planting Guidelines from the Teachings of George Patterson
If you want your thinking about the training of church planters to be stimulated and challenged, here is the book for you.
Reimaging Evangelism: Inviting Friends on a Spiritual Journey
The challenge of communicating the unchanging truths of the gospel is renewed in every generation.
Picturing Christian Witness: New Testament Images of Disciples in Mission
Stanley Skreslet, professor of mission at Union Theological Seminary in Richmond, Virginia, argues in this book that the study of mission should be approached in terms of “images” that are based on the New Testament accounts.
The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible’s Grand Narrative
Christopher Wright’s The Mission of God unpacks a much more audacious proposal: that mission is the basis of the entire Bible.
Innovation in Mission: Insights into Practical Innovations Creating Kingdom Impact
Editors Jim Reapsome and Jon Hirst and eleven authors provide twentieth and twenty-first century examples of innovation in world mission.
Globalizing Theology: Belief and Practice in an Era of World Christianity
Mosaic books are always a challenge to read and review, unless they have clear integrators—convergence factors for diverse essays. Globalizing Theology reveals these elements as it grapples with the issues of globalizing theology (faces of contextualization) in a new global arena.
Cities of God: The Real Story of How Christianity Became an Urban Movement and Conquered Rome
For centuries, cities have been on the receiving end of a disproportionately small part of mission endeavors, but readers of Rodney Stark’s latest book may have to reconsider the wisdom of this imbalance.
The AIDS Crisis: What We Can Do
From the wrenching opening of Chrub’s induction by her mother into life as a Phnom Penh prostitute to the book’s closing vignette in which Sukunthea and her fellow Way of Hope Church members gently encircle the dying Chrub, the reader of The AIDS Crisis is pressed to respond to AIDS in a more radical way, guided by…
The Road to Delhi: Bishop Pickett Remembered 1890-1981
The Road to Delhi: Bishop Pickett Remembered 1890-1981 is the fruit of Arthur McPhee’s doctoral dissertation at Asbury Theological Seminary.
Well Connected: Releasing Power, Restoring Hope Through Kingdom Partnerships
Powerful global forces are motivating organizations of many kinds to bridge traditional barriers by attempting new partnerships and alliances. But uncertainties and risks abound. Can these new arrangements really achieve the desired synergies and efficiencies?