Why Church Matters: Worship, Ministry, and Mission in Practice
Jonathan R. Wilson believes that the “practicing church” declares God’s redemptive work and enhances the church’s witness through the empowerm…
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Antioch Revisited: Reuniting the Church with Her Mission
Author Tom Julien weaves a compelling story of a missionary who rediscovered that blueprint in Acts 13 and purposed to coax his home church back to An…
Encountering Missionary Life and Work: Preparing for Intercultural Ministry
A much-needed textbook to prepare missionaries.
Faith Comes By Hearing: A Response to Inclusivism
Faith Comes by Hearing is a contribution to an evangelical theology of the unevangelized.
Good and Faithful—New Zealand Missionaries and Their Experience of Attrition
Why do missionaries come home prematurely and what can be done about it? Hudson Deane has asked these questions to ninety-two evangelical missionaries…
The Great Commission: Evangelicals and the History of World Missions
Historians have long discussed the theological and cultural influence of the eighteenth-century evangelical awakenings on Great Britain and her North …
Imagined Hindusim: British Protestant Missionary Constructions of Hinduism, 1793-1900
Many today may be startled to learn that “Hinduism” is a relatively recent term that did not come into vogue until the late eighteenth century.
The Kingdom of Character: The Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions, 1886-1926
Parker traces the history of the SVM by focusing on a variety of themes that shaped the movement’s birth and development.
The Missional Church in Context: Helping Congregations Develop Contextual Ministry
The book is the first in a new series from Eerdmans entitled the “Missional Church series,” and is comprised of essays that come from a conference…
Music in the Life of the African Church
We European and American missionaries brought the Word to Africa, and we relegated music to its pagan past. This book, very positive in tone, provides…