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 overwhelmi…
Category: Book Reviews
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…
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?
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, ‘…
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, the…
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 …
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, …
Anxious about Empire: Theological Essays on the New Global Realities
Avram has brought together twelve prominent scholars to discuss the theological implications of current political rhetoric, policy, leadership and int…
Christian Witness in Pluralistic Contexts in the Twenty-First Century
This book is a compendium of the papers presented at the 2002 EMS/IFMA annual conference. The theme of the conference was “Encountering World Religi…
Circumcised Heart
According to the constitution of Malaysia, a Malay is a Muslim. Yet Hilmy Nor is a Malay Christian.