Contextualization and Syncretism: Navigating Cultural Currents
Discussions of contextualization among evangelicals inevitably provoke a niggling question: How far can we go in making the gospel relevant within hum…
Category: Book Reviews
C. Stacey Woods and the Evangelical Rediscovery of the University
This biography of C. Stacey Woods (1909-1983) is the story of how American college and university campuses became both a mission field and a fertile s…
The Road to Delhi: Bishop Pickett Remembered 1890-1981
The Road to Delhi: Bishop Pickett Remembered 1890-1981 is the fruit of Arthur McPhee’s doctoral dissertation at Asbury Theological Seminary.
The AIDS Crisis: What We Can Do
From the wrenching opening of Chrub’s induction by her mother into life as a Phnom Penh prostitute to the book’s closing vignette in which Sukunth…
Cities of God: The Real Story of How Christianity Became an Urban Movement and Conquered Rome
For centuries, cities have been on the receiving end of a disproportionately small part of mission endeavors, but readers of Rodney Stark’s latest b…
Globalizing Theology: Belief and Practice in an Era of World Christianity
Mosaic books are always a challenge to read and review, unless they have clear integrators—convergence factors for diverse essays. Globalizing Th…
Innovation in Mission: Insights into Practical Innovations Creating Kingdom Impact
Editors Jim Reapsome and Jon Hirst and eleven authors provide twentieth and twenty-first century examples of innovation in world mission.
The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible’s Grand Narrative
Christopher Wright’s The Mission of God unpacks a much more audacious proposal: that mission is the basis of the entire Bible.
Picturing Christian Witness: New Testament Images of Disciples in Mission
Stanley Skreslet, professor of mission at Union Theological Seminary in Richmond, Virginia, argues in this book that the study of mission should be ap…
Reimaging Evangelism: Inviting Friends on a Spiritual Journey
The challenge of communicating the unchanging truths of the gospel is renewed in every generation.