Book reviews
Reviews of the books shaping mission thinking and practice. Page 30 of 40 · 942 in all.
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 faith in the gospel.
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, theology and missiology, his perceptive insights are a necessity in engaging in theologizing in the African context.
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, ‘til death do us part.” Perhaps the author intended as much.
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?
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 first century AD.
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 overwhelming impression was of the work’s encyclopedic character.
The Word Made Flesh: Towards an Incarnational Missiology
This book was co-published with the American Society of Missiology dissertation series and has the mark of excellence of theological doctoral studies from the Melbourne College of Divinity.
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 and healthy vision of God’s plan for the world.
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 syncretism.
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 Wisconsin, Madison, in 1997 and Fuller Theological Seminary in 1998.
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.
Evaluating the Church Growth Movement: 5 Views
I wish this book had been written several years ago. Zondervan published this work as part of the Counterpoints Series on the fiftieth anniversary of the contemporary Church Growth Movement.
Enjoy Afghanistan
When this book crossed my desk, my first notion was to regard the title as an oxymoron. But that description would do the compilers an injustice.
Circumcised Heart
According to the constitution of Malaysia, a Malay is a Muslim. Yet Hilmy Nor is a Malay Christian.
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 Religions.”
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 international relations.
The Word Made Flesh: Towards an Incarnational Missiology
This book was co-published with the American Society of Missiology dissertation series and has the mark of excellence of theological doctoral studies from the Melbourne College of Divinity.
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 and healthy vision of God’s plan for the world.
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 syncretism.
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 Wisconsin, Madison, in 1997 and Fuller Theological Seminary in 1998.
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.
Evaluating the Church Growth Movement: 5 Views
I wish this book had been written several years ago. Zondervan published this work as part of the Counterpoints Series on the fiftieth anniversary of the contemporary Church Growth Movement.
Enjoy Afghanistan
When this book crossed my desk, my first notion was to regard the title as an oxymoron. But that description would do the compilers an injustice.
Circumcised Heart
According to the constitution of Malaysia, a Malay is a Muslim. Yet Hilmy Nor is a Malay Christian.