Book reviews
Reviews of the books shaping mission thinking and practice. Page 5 of 40 · 942 in all.
Members onlyTruth vs. Misinformation
Rachel Wightman serves as the associate director for instruction and outreach at Concordia University, St. Paul, with experience and training in library and information sciences.
Members onlyA Diverse World of Faith
How can anyone cover “world religions in seven sentences?” This book is one of several in the series, “Introductions in Seven Sentences,” which offer insightful overviews of philosophy, Christian history, the Old and New Testaments, and world religions.
Members onlyWhat Made the Early Church Share the Gospel?
This book by Matt Burden may be a shock to those who perceive that the Great Commission has been the church’s driving force for missions since Jesus uttered those words before his ascension!
Members onlyIn-Depth Answers for Training Cross-Cultural Workers
Many books have been written about mission and missionaries, but what does the life of a missionary look like? On Being a Missionary provides an in-depth answer to this question.
Members onlyExperiencing God
Harold Netland has written a careful and readable analysis of what kind of weight (and how much weight) we should lend to religious experience when considering claims about God.
Members onlyDoes Hebrews Address Missions?
What does the book of Hebrews have to do with mission? “Reading Hebrews Missiologically” aims “to tease out the theology of mission in the book of Hebrews”
Members onlyForming an Anti-fragile Faith
Missionary activity is dangerous and risky work. The risks of kidnapping, uprisings, crime, government interference, and terrorism build a stressful environment. Missionaries must find ways to thrive despite the dangers.
Members onlyA Primer on Cultivating Prayer
This slim prayer guide includes a modest number of notes at the end (149–152), illustrative anecdotes scattered throughout, and, most notably, it is saturated with Scripture. To receive the full value of the thoughtful presentation, readers should move slowly through this book.
Members onlySharing the Good News Through the Ages
In February 2019, England’s Church Times noted online that “with the death of Canon Michael Green on 6 February comes the passing of a generation of remarkable evangelists whose mark on the Church of England is ineradicable.
Members onlyThe Legacy of Todd M. Johnson in Global Christianity
The study of global Christianity has become increasingly popular among Christian scholars and sociologists in the last few decades.
Members onlyKarmic Christianity: Finding Peace by Faith Alone
This book is not about “karma” as used in the traditional Buddhist sense, but in the popular, worldly spirituality that tries to attach spiritual meaning or spiritual causes to good and bad experiences, blessings and hardships.
Members onlyCrossing Cultures with the Gospel: Anthropological Wisdom for Effective Christian Witness
This book distills the author’s 45 years of training students, pastors, and missionaries in order to help them understand basic anthropological tools and perspectives that can enable them to overcome cross-cultural barriers through the gospel.
Members onlyPropelled by Hope: The Story of the Perspectives Movement
This book narrates the fifty-year story of the Perspectives movement from the lens of the author’s participation in its thirty-year history.
Members onlyWorld Christianity in Western Europe: Diasporic Identity, Narratives and Missiology
This excellent volume adopts a multidisciplinary approach to multicultural, diverse, missional, and missiologically relevant contemporary themes…
Members onlyPlanting by Pastoring: A Vision for Starting a Healthy Church
Must church planting be so complicated? What if church planters do not exude a magnetic, entrepreneurial personality?
Members onlyProphets in the Qur’ān and the Bible
Of the dozens of books on Islam, the Qur’an, and ministry to Muslims on my shelves, I cannot find a single book-length Christian study
Members onlyThe Present and Future of Evangelical Mission: Academy, Agency, Assembly, and Agora Perspectives from Canada
The Present and Future of Evangelical Mission is an edited volume of contributions from the Evangelical Missiological Society (EMS) Canada Regional Meeting in 2020.
Members onlyGod Shines Forth: How the Nature of God Shapes and Drives the Mission of the Church
How is the gap bridged between what God has done for humanity in Christ and the believer’s response in mission and evangelism?
Members onlyLeadership Formation in the African Context: Missional Leadership Revisited
In an era marked by increasing globalization – where mission is from everywhere, to everyone – fostering research that bridges cultures
Members onlyMissions in Southeast Asia: Diversity and Unity in God’s Design
The cultural and historical context of a country is of vital importance in missionary work. Those involved in missions
Members onlyBeyond Our Walls: Finding Jesus in the Slums of Jakarta
Christian missionaries have long prided themselves on living on the field with the people they serve, but do we see the slums, home to more than 1 billion
Members onlySignals of Transcendence: Listening to the Promptings of Life
When Christians think of Os Guinness, the expressions respected author or social critic might come to mind.
Members onlyGlobal Christianity: A Guide to the World’s Largest Religion from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe
The goal of Global Christianity is to disseminate the research conducted at the Center for the Study of Global Christianity
Members onlyOverflowing: Ministry and Missions that Flow from the Heart
Reviewed by Marcus Dean, Professor of Intercultural Studies and Missions, Houghton University, who served as a missionary in Colombia and Puerto Rico for 14 years.