Book reviews
Reviews of the books shaping mission thinking and practice. Page 29 of 40 · 942 in all.
The Human Condition: Christian Perspectives through African Eyes
The principal value of this book was to make me consider how to present biblical truth in an African context. Joseph Kapolyo is a Zambian who has taught theological students in both Ndolo and London.
Healing the Wounds of Trauma: How the Church Can Help
This concise and well-written book is intended to help Christians understand and work through trauma. Developed primarily for African believers, Healing the Wounds is filled with composite accounts of troubling/traumatic experiences for many on this continent.
A Guide To New Religious Movements
Ronald Enroth, a sociology professor at Westmont College, edited this volume that is a compilation of writings by experts in diverse religious movements that have emerged from Traditional/Animism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity and Islam.
Through the Eyes of Another: Intercultural Reading of the Bible
This hefty book is the product of a three-year study of John 4:1-42 by 120 groups from all parts of the world.
Through God’s Eyes: A Bible Study of God’s Motivations for Missions
How many people from your church have gone out of the country on a short-term mission trip in the last five years? Make a quick estimate. Now, how many of them are preparing to be career missionaries?
Searching for the Indigenous Church: A Missionary Pilgrimage
Expatriate workers can, sometimes unknowingly, dominate the people they work among. Rather, they should listen to them.
Scattered: The Filipino Global Presence
None other than Her Excellency, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, president of the Philippines, introduces this extensive report on the amazing Filipino diaspora.
LeadershipNext: Changing Leaders in a Changing Culture
For several years now, I’ve relied on Thomas Friedman’s The Lexus and the Olive Tree to help me understand some of the overall dimensions and major themes of the post-cold-war world.
Kissing Cousins? Christians and Muslims Face to Face
Musk calls Christians to take a step further in embracing Muslims as cousins.
The Human Condition: Christian Perspectives through African Eyes
The principal value of this book was to make me consider how to present biblical truth in an African context. Joseph Kapolyo is a Zambian who has taught theological students in both Ndolo and London.
Healing the Wounds of Trauma: How the Church Can Help
This concise and well-written book is intended to help Christians understand and work through trauma. Developed primarily for African believers, Healing the Wounds is filled with composite accounts of troubling/traumatic experiences for many on this continent.
A Guide To New Religious Movements
Ronald Enroth, a sociology professor at Westmont College, edited this volume that is a compilation of writings by experts in diverse religious movements that have emerged from Traditional/Animism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity and Islam.
Treasure in Clay Jars: Patterns in Missional Faithfulness
A follow-up to the authors’ Missional Church (1998), a general study of missional congregations, the present work focuses on nine groups that are divided into eight patterns of missional faithfulness in church life.
Sharing Jesus Holistically with the Buddhist World
Intentional mission activity has been done among Buddhists since Xavier in the sixteenth century. Yet little fruit have come from these efforts.
Not Less Than Everything: The Courageous Women Who Carried the Christian Gospel to China
In 1900, two-thirds of the missionaries serving in China were women. Not Less Than Everything by Valerie Griffiths details the stories of such women, mostly serving with the China Inland Mission, who took the gospel message to China from the 1820s to the mid-1900s.
Muslim and Christian Reflections on Peace: Divine and Human Dimensions
It’s great to see Christians meeting with Muslims to discuss how we can get along—and even better when the Christian representatives share a firm faith in the gospel.
Jesus and the Gospel in Africa: History and Experience
Kwame Bediako is one of the most significant contemporary voices in African evangelical theology. Richly textured, in touch with history, culture, theology and missiology, his perceptive insights are a necessity in engaging in theologizing in the African context.
In War and Famine: Missionaries in China’s Honan Province in the 1940’s
The title, In War and Famine , sounds like part of a wedding vow, to be followed by “in sickness and in health, for richer and for poorer, ‘til death do us part.” Perhaps the author intended as much.
Exploring the Depths of the Mystery of Christ: K. Subba Rao’s Eclectic Praxis of Hindu Discipleship
In what ways might Christianity and Hinduism properly engage one another? What does true and dynamic faith and worship look like in India?
Early Christian Mission Vol. 1: Jesus and the Twelve; Vol. 2: Paul and the Early Church
Eckhard Schnabel has written the most detailed and comprehensive history within the last one hundred years of the Christian missionary movement in the first century AD.
A Reader’s Guide to Transforming Mission
Back in the early 1990s when I read through David Bosch’s Transforming Mission—not at one sitting, the book is too large for that—my overwhelming impression was of the work’s encyclopedic character.
Treasure in Clay Jars: Patterns in Missional Faithfulness
A follow-up to the authors’ Missional Church (1998), a general study of missional congregations, the present work focuses on nine groups that are divided into eight patterns of missional faithfulness in church life.
Sharing Jesus Holistically with the Buddhist World
Intentional mission activity has been done among Buddhists since Xavier in the sixteenth century. Yet little fruit have come from these efforts.
Not Less Than Everything: The Courageous Women Who Carried the Christian Gospel to China
In 1900, two-thirds of the missionaries serving in China were women. Not Less Than Everything by Valerie Griffiths details the stories of such women, mostly serving with the China Inland Mission, who took the gospel message to China from the 1820s to the mid-1900s.