Religious and ceremonial art

Is social enterprise yet another example of the expansion of the market into all areas of life and society, in this case the marketization of poverty?

This concise study searches for what is needed to awaken or strengthen the faltering missionary consciousness of Western Christians with regard to their own environment.

This book explores the theme of the missional conversion of the church, namely how the church is transformed toward its missionary vocation, from a biblical-theological perspective.

The Wells of Venice contains sequences, blank verse, and lyrics that meditate upon visual and literary Venetian art, as well as the myths, history, religion, and politics that shaped the culture of this extraordinary human achievement.

Amy Oxley Wilkinson was a well-known missionary in both China and the West in the early twentieth century.

Techno-Sapiens gathers together leading scholars of technology, theology, and religion in order to explore the ways in which modern technology is neither solely a dehumanizing force in the world nor a mere instrument for evangelizing the world, but rather the very means by which incarnation happens--the media in and through which humans love the (digital) other.

How does Christ meet, engage, change, challenge, dialogue, interact with, and bridge cultures?

Our world is facing an enormous and unprecedented challenge.

The metrical translation of the Psalms into the Punjabi language, set to indigenous music in the late nineteenth century in India, plays a vital role in the personal and communal worship of the global Punjabi Christian community.

Classical orthodoxy, the Reformational understanding of the gospel, and the Great Awakening beliefs and behaviors, including missions/missiology, reflect what the evangelical movement and its mission should be if it is to have a future.

This book is about specific ministry needs or opportunities in China.

Historic Church Serves Big City explores what a small congregation can do with the blend of developmental leadership and societal needs within their own backyard.

Throughout history, many Christians have existed on the margins of society; deviants and strangers in lands they call home.

We all know that healthy partnerships are essential to fruitful boundary-crossing ministries, but how exactly do we create them?

Making the Word of God Fully Known is a collection of essays on church, culture, and mission relevant for the Australian church in honor of the sixty-fifth birthday of Archbishop Philip Freier, archbishop of Melbourne.

The new and different frontiers and factors discussed in missiology are reshaping the meaning of mission.

The apostle Paul directed Timothy to teach faithful men who would follow his model of teaching others also (2 Tim 2:2).

Maybe you are familiar with the growth in recent decades of "e;majority world"e; missionaries being sent all over the world from non-Western countries (i.

God is a missionary God.

God loves just economies, but sadly the invisible hand of the market has chiseled huge cracks in our communities.

Would it surprise you to know that New Testament scholars, missiologists, and church-planting authorities cannot agree on how to define tentmaking, whether or not the church should be practicing it today, or even why Paul did it in the first place?

After harmonizing the four Gospels into one unified story, the author examines the ministry of Jesus to see what we can learn today for our own churches and ministries.