After more than twenty years since the fall of the USSR, the evangelical movement in post-Soviet society has entered a crucial phase in its historical development.
Communities of Faith is a collection of essays on the multicultural Christian spirit and practices of churches around the world, with particular attention to Africa and the African diaspora.
Klaus Wetzel zeichnet in dieser Gesamtdarstellung die Geschichte der weltweiten Ausbreitung des Christentums umfassend und detailreich nach, chronologisch geordnet von der Ausbreitung des Christentums in den ersten sechs Jahrhunderten in Asien, Europa und Afrika, über die Mission im Mittelalter und die Ausbreitung des Christentums vom 16.
Missiologists and theologians do not often talk to each other, which has resulted in increased ignorance of each others questions and concerns about how to do theology in ways that effectively serve the Churchs mission.
Though immediately recognizable in public discourse as a modern state in a political "e;hot zone,"e; Armenia has a material history and visual culture that reaches back to the Paleolithic era.
Sometimes enjoying considerable favor, sometimes less, iconography has been an essential element in medieval art historical studies since the beginning of the discipline.
In Evangelism and the Openness of God, Vaughn Baker argues that a dynamic concept of God as articulated in open theism better serves the evangelistic mission of the church than does conventional theology.
Growing from 4 to 400 GenerationsWeve heard stories about disciple-making movements that are sweeping the globe, transforming the way people are coming to Christ in places like Asia, western Africa, and South America.
Theology to the Ends of the Earth and Back AgainAs Christianity s center of gravity has shifted to the Majority World, many younger churches in Africa, Asia, and Latin America are now coming of age.
Global Member Care: Crossing Sectors for Serving Humanity, the latest book from the O'Donnells, is part of an ongoing effort to help a diversity of colleagues keep current with a globalizing world and the global field of member care.
Authors from eighteen countries give us their perspectives on biblical principles and cultural expressions of spirituality particularly as the church engages in God's mission.
An Eastern Orthodox Perspective on ContextualizationThe mission of the Church is to introduce the person of Christ to individual human beings who by faith enter into communion with God.
Benjamin Channing was born into a prominent New England family with a respectable fortune, an Ivy League pedigree, and stalwart Presbyterian values of rectitude and public service.
Three hundred years ago San Antonio was founded as a strategic outpost of presidios and missions on the edge of northern New Spain, imposing Spanish political and religious principles on this contested, often hostile region.
David Morgan builds on his previous groundbreaking work to offer this new, systematically integrated theory of the study of religion as visual culture.
Profiles of African-American Missionaries features the lives and ministries of the great African-Americans who have gone to the world with the message of Christ.
Following Jesus to Burning Man: Recovering the Church's Vocation places the author, a Pentecostal/evangelical minister, in a thoroughly pagan context in the Nevada desert where he discovered the presence of God in a way that transformed his understanding of ministry in the twenty-first century context.
While the concept of partnership between churches in the Global North and South has been an ecumenical goal for well over eight decades, realizing relationships of mutuality, solidarity, and koinonia has been, to say the least, problematic.
This collection of presentations from the 1999 IFMA/EFMA/EMS Triennial Conference explores the incredibly ambitious purpose and challenging task of Working Together with God to Shape the New Millennium.
Lessons from the Buddhist WorldSEANET proudly presents Restored to Freedom from Fear, Guilt, and Shame, volume 13 in its series on intercultural and inter-religious studies.
