House Church and Mission: the Importance of Household Structures in Early Christianity
Roger Gehring comes to the rescue of those in search of more than popular accounts of the rise of house churches.
Category: Book Reviews
North American Foreign Missions, 1810-1914
Most of the chapters in this work were delivered in two consultations of the North Atlantic Missiology Project, which took place at the University of …
To Every Tribe With Jesus: Understanding and Reaching Tribal Peoples for Christ
Over two thousand animistic tribal people groups have not been reached for Christ, and many of those who have been reached are saturated with syncreti…
20/20 Vision: Practical Ways Individuals and Churches Can Be Involved
Wouldn’t it be great if our vision were perfect? 20/20 Vision by Bill and Amy Stearns is a very readable and compelling book about gaining a clear a…
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.
Camel Training Manual
Seldom have I been as enthused about a book as I am about this inside peek at one of the most extraordinary acts of the Holy Spirit among Muslims ever…
Constants in Context: A Theology of Mission for Today
Steve Bevans and Roger Schroeder of the Catholic Theological Union have written a wonderful new overview of the history and theology of missions.
Father of Missions: The Life and Times of Anthony Norris Groves (1795-1853)
Why should anyone read a biography of a man who believed that he lived a “worse than useless life”? There are no tales of heroic achievements, no …