Book reviews
Reviews of the books shaping mission thinking and practice. Page 8 of 40 · 942 in all.
Members onlyMissionary Motivations: Challenges from the Early Church
This book seeks to open a window “on the way that Christians in the early centuries of our faith thought about the task of global mission” (page vii).
Members onlyPolycentric Mission Leadership: Toward a New Theoretical Model for Global Leadership
This book’s goal is “to find a better approach to leadership in a world where everything—from supply chains to political conflict to the church—is global” (page 22).
Members onlyA Concise Guide to the Life of Muhammad
Reviewed by David Cashin, professor of intercultural studies at Columbia International University, who served nine years in Bangladesh and is also the author of a book on the life of Muhammad, Muhammad and the People of the Book.
Members onlyTheology of Mission: A Concise Biblical Theology
Reviewed by Marvin J. Newell, ambassador at large for Missio Nexus. With this book, J.D. Payne has provided the current generation with an easy-to-read update on the biblical theology of mission.
Members onlyMobilizing Gen Z: Challenges and Opportunities for the Global Age of Missions
Reviewed by Edward L. Smither, professor of intercultural studies and history of global Christianity at Columbia International University
Members onlyMissiological Reflections on Life and Mission
Reviewed by Brent H. Burdick, DMin, adjunct professor of missions, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, Charlotte, North Carolina, and director of the Lausanne Movement’s Global Classroom.
Members onlyFaith in the Wilderness: Words of Exhortation from the Chinese Church
Reviewed by Richard Cook, professor of Church history and missions at Logos Evangelical Seminary in El Monte, California, and a former missionary in Taiwan.
Members onlyStick Figures Save the World: Drawing Simply to Share Jesus Well.
Reviewed by Marcus Dean, Professor of intercultural studies and missions, Houghton University, and former missionary in Colombia and Puerto Rico for 14 years
Members onlyPolycentric Mission Leadership: Toward a New Theoretical Model for Global Leadership.
Reviewed by Marcus Dean, Professor of intercultural studies and missions, Houghton University, and former missionary in Colombia and Puerto Rico for 14 years
Members onlyIs the Commission Still Great? 8 Myths about Missions and What They Mean for the Church
Reviewed by Marcus Dean, Professor of intercultural studies and missions, Houghton University, and former missionary in Colombia and Puerto Rico for 14 years
Members onlyGod Shines Forth: How the Nature of God Shapes and Drives the Mission of the Church
Reviewed by Cameron D. Armstrong, Asia Graduate School of Theology, Philippines.
Members onlyCultural Identity and the Purposes of God: A Biblical Theology of Ethnicity, Nationality, and Race
Reviewed by Ryan Klejment-Lavin, PhD in intercultural studies and director of Footstool Missions Center, South Korea.
Members onlyStrangers and Scapegoats: Extending God’s Welcome to Those on the Margins
Reviewed by Josiah A. Stephan, professor at South Florida Bible College & Theological Seminary, Deerfield Beach, Florida.
Members onlyThe Realities of Money and Missions: Global Challenges and Case Studies
Reviewed by Chris Flanders, professor of missions, Graduate School of Theology, Abilene Christian University, Abilene, Texas.
Members onlyEmbracing the New Samaria: Opening our Eyes to our Multiethnic Future
This book seeks “to help Christian leaders learn to see, love, reach, and ultimately be the New Samaria” (page 11).
Members onlyNew Funding Models for Global Mission: Learning from the Majority World
This book is about conversion in the contexts of the poor. It raises questions about the God that the poor seek and about how conversions happen.
Members onlyThe God that the Poor Seek: Conversion, Context, and the World of the Vulnerable
This book is about conversion in the contexts of the poor. It raises questions about the God that the poor seek and about how conversions happen.
Members onlyTracing the Theology of Missions through Acts
Reviewed by Will Brooks | In his new book The Mission of the Triune God, Patrick Schreiner has done missiologists a great service by tracing the major biblical and theological themes in Acts.
Members onlyExploring Missions in the 1500s
Reviewed by Jonathan P. Case | This collection of sixteen essays on sixteenth-century mission grew out of the 2018 annual conference of the Evangelical Missiological Society (EMS). Contributions from Protestant and Catholic scholars have been selected to make the case that a broad missional consciousness and…
Members onlyHow to Help without Hurting in the African Context
Reviewed by Bob Bagley | Africa has a long history of receiving agencies coming from the western world with well-intentioned ministries of compassion aimed at alleviating poverty and its accompanying ills. Despite good motives, the track record of such efforts overall has been less than stellar.
Members onlyReligious Indignity among Hindu-Background Believers
Reviewed by Anish Puthusseril Joseph | In Believing Without Belonging? Religious Beliefs and Social Belonging of Hindu Devotees of Christ, Vinod John, an Asian missiologist, examines what believing without belonging means “in the context of caste Hindu devotees of Jesus in North India” who have no interest in…
Members onlyA Missional Reading of Revelation
Reviewed by David Greenlee | Dean Flemming’s Foretaste of the Future offers us a fresh, missional reading of Revelation, referred to by the publisher as the first missional reading of Revelation as a whole.
Members onlyAfrican Christianity and African Independent Churches
Reviewed by George F. Pickens | The demographic shift of Christianity to the Global South has both fascinated and bemused scholars, yet one result is certain. Africa is now the most Christianized continent, and for students of African Christianity, it is clear that African Independent Churches (AICs) have been…
Members onlyChallenging Dualism in Missiology
Reviewed by Ryan Gimple | It is not infrequent to come across missionaries who seem allergic to deeper theological discussions. I hate to admit that I have previously suffered from seasonal theological sniffles. The unfortunate dualism that pulls missionaries and theologians apart, dividing theory from practice, is…