Book reviews
Reviews of the books shaping mission thinking and practice. Page 26 of 40 · 942 in all.
Pocket Guide to World Religions
Urbanization has been a worldwide reality for several decades. As a result, the peoples and their religions have been clustering in the cities of the world for some time.
The New Friars: The Emerging Movement Serving the World’s Poor
Warning, The New Friars will be hazardous to your suburbanite soup kitchen mentality!
Mission in the Way of Paul: Biblical Mission for the Church in the 21st Century
Christopher Little is to be congratulated for writing a book on the second most significant missionary exemplar of all time, the peripatetic and harrowingly adventurous Apostle Paul.
Lesslie Newbigin: Missionary Theologian: A Reader
This fine collection of essays illustrates that breadth need not imply superficiality.
Kitchen Table Counseling, A Practical and Biblical Guide for Women Helping Others
As a professional therapist, I am often approached by Christian women who are asked to help others in emotional distress. “How do I help this woman?” is the usual question. Since more women tend to seek help from acquaintances rather than trained professionals, I am delighted to have discovered Kitchen Table…
Hope for the Southern World: Impacting Societal Problems in the Non-Western World
The majority of evangelical Christians now live in the southern hemisphere. God has multiplied his Church in Latin America, Africa and southern Asia. This success story in world missions carries a nagging concern.
The Evangelization of Slaves and Catholic Origins in Eastern Africa
Buying Africans by the thousands at slave markets, evangelizing but not fully freeing them and forming them into faith communities and then resettling them in new sites as missionaries is a mission strategy that would startle even those who have never heard of contextualization.
Business as Mission: The Power of Business in the Kingdom of God
Business as mission (BAM) is an ongoing topic of discussion and has yielded much interest. Michael Baer’s aptly titled new book addresses this topic from personal experience and with a practical tone.
Paradigms in Conflict: Ten Key Questions in Christian Missions Today
As one whose missionary ministry has spanned the entire second half of the twentieth century, Dr. David Hesselgrave has been an active and reflective practitioner in world evangelism during an amazing period of expansion in the world Christian movement.
Tentmaking: Business as Missions
This book is the definitive work for contemporary tentmaking. Patrick Lai has composed a very extensive and highly-practical resource birthed from many years of personal experience and interviews from over 450 tentmakers serving in the 10/40 Window.
Culture, Leadership, and Organizations: The GLOBE Study of 62 Societies
How many of us have attempted to teach modern management techniques in another culture only to find nationals invariably returning to their accustomed norms and practices?
Cross-Cultural Servanthood: Serving the World in Christlike Humility
This book is for international missionaries. Or, is it? More correctly, this book is for every Christian who anticipates witnessing across cultural lines.
The Changing Face of World Missions: Engaging Contemporary Issues and Trends
Kaleidoscopic changes loom over global Christian missionary activity at the beginning of this new century. Established patterns of knowing and doing missions seem to erode daily while new and shifting patterns are shaping the scenarios designed to show the way forward.
The Bible at Cultural Crossroads: From Translation to Communication
“We have had the Bible in our language, but we still couldn’t understand what it meant.” That’s what Hill’s main assistant said to her when she was conducting the research for this book. Why can’t Bibles, even ones that are translated well, be understood? And what can be done about it?
Africa Bible Commentary
Five years in the making, involving sixty-nine African biblical scholars, the first one-volume Bible commentary written by Africans in Africa for African churches has been published.
A Martyr’s Grace: Stories of Those Who Gave All for God’s Glory
The word “martyr” may evoke thoughts of those who died centuries ago. We do not tend to think of those who were fellow students or members of our graduating class. Dr. Newell’s book provides twenty-one accounts of Moody Bible Institute alumni who paid the ultimate price for acting in obedience to the missionary call.
A History of Christianity in Asia, Volume II: 1500-1900
In this second volume of a proposed three volume set on Christianity in Asia, Samuel Moffett, professor emeritus of ecumenics and mission at Princeton Theological Seminary, again succeeds in providing a landmark history of Christianity on the continent of Christianity’s birth.
Paradigms in Conflict: Ten Key Questions in Christian Missions Today
As one whose missionary ministry has spanned the entire second half of the twentieth century, Dr. David Hesselgrave has been an active and reflective practitioner in world evangelism during an amazing period of expansion in the world Christian movement.
Tentmaking: Business as Missions
This book is the definitive work for contemporary tentmaking. Patrick Lai has composed a very extensive and highly-practical resource birthed from many years of personal experience and interviews from over 450 tentmakers serving in the 10/40 Window.
Culture, Leadership, and Organizations: The GLOBE Study of 62 Societies
How many of us have attempted to teach modern management techniques in another culture only to find nationals invariably returning to their accustomed norms and practices?
Cross-Cultural Servanthood: Serving the World in Christlike Humility
This book is for international missionaries. Or, is it? More correctly, this book is for every Christian who anticipates witnessing across cultural lines.
The Changing Face of World Missions: Engaging Contemporary Issues and Trends
Kaleidoscopic changes loom over global Christian missionary activity at the beginning of this new century. Established patterns of knowing and doing missions seem to erode daily while new and shifting patterns are shaping the scenarios designed to show the way forward.
The Bible at Cultural Crossroads: From Translation to Communication
“We have had the Bible in our language, but we still couldn’t understand what it meant.” That’s what Hill’s main assistant said to her when she was conducting the research for this book. Why can’t Bibles, even ones that are translated well, be understood? And what can be done about it?
Africa Bible Commentary
Five years in the making, involving sixty-nine African biblical scholars, the first one-volume Bible commentary written by Africans in Africa for African churches has been published.