The Two Tasks of the Christian Scholar: Redeeming the Soul, Redeeming the Mind
This book explores for contemporary academics the challenge posed a quarter of a century earlier by Charles Malik: recapturing the great universities …
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Theology in the Context of World Christianity: How the Global Church is Influencing the Way We Think
Tim Tennent’s book asks, “What can the worldwide Church learn from the theological reflection going on in the Majority World Church, reflection wh…
Hope for Children in Poverty: Profiles and Possibilities
In this relatively slim volume, Ron Sider and Heidi Unruh have collected a cornucopia of articles targeted at the uninitiated but well-meaning churchg…
Nexus: The World House Church Movement Reader
Drawing from the experiences and writings of over thirty-five individuals, Rad Zdero has compiled a massive book with chapters addressing house church…
Reason to Believe: Cultural Agency in Latin American Evangelicalism
Based on three years of participant observation and interviews, Smilde explores the reasons why some men in Latin American convert to evangelicalism a…
Secret Believers: What Happens When Muslims Believe in Christ
This takes Western Christians into the lives of Christians and Muslim Background Believers (MBBs) in the Middle East.
Spreading Fires: The Missionary Nature of Early Pentecostalism
In this book, Allan Anderson seeks to identify the essential characteristics that produced the unprecedented worldwide growth of Pentecostalism by ana…
When Charity Destroys Dignity: Overcoming Unhealthy Dependency in the Christian Movement
Schwartz writes from field experience and more than twenty years of doing seminars on “dependency.”
Communicating Christ in the Buddhist World
Anyone who has attempted to share the gospel with a Buddhist has undoubtedly heard one of two responses: “Oh, yes. Christianity and Buddhism are two…
Global Pentecostalism: The New Face of Christian Social Engagement
What is new and groundbreaking about Miller and Yamamori’s new study is the balance provided by their subtitle: The New Face of Christian Social …