This book examines theology and practice aspects of six British mission agencies, aiming to understand their capability to respond the crisis faced due to a disconnect between mission practitioners and mission academy. Suggesting, agencies’ need to consider leadership and governance aspects...

This case study of the African Christian community among the Songhai and its worship music, is drawn on research conducted over a six-year period. The relationships between music, culture, and worship are studied based on insights from disciplines of ethnomusicology, worship study, anthropology, ...

Undivided Witness presents ten key principles linking community development and emerging vibrant communities of Jesus followers among the ‘least reached’. Twelve practitioners explore uncharted missiological space, drawing on decades of serving and learning among communities in Africa...

Patronage governs most relationships in Global South cultures. This book shows that when a patron plays a role as a father, he plays a significant role in developing national pastors as church planters and offers an alternative reading of aid dependency as a relational concept rather than an econ...

This book investigates Christianity as a world religion in Western Europe through the prisms of Diasporic Identity, migrant narratives and mission theology. Through an interdisciplinary approach, scholars and practitioners share knowledge in Diaspora Missiology, Practical Theology, World Christia...

The urgent task of our day is to reimagine the church witnessing to Christ’s Gospel. The ethos and spirit of modernity with its ideas of progress, individualism, commodification, and conquest are hardwired into mission, undermining faithful witness and service. Now is the time to transcend ...

At the heart of Old Testament law is a revolutionary concept that, if applied today, could transform our economy and world. Jesus himself claimed that his ministry would bring its fulfilment, transforming the world.  Uniting social justice, creation care, equality and worship, jubilee remain...

This is a condensed version of the author’s seminal work, Mangoes or Bananas? Based on the premise that theology and mission are inseparable, the author applies four missiological criteria to representative examples of Protestant Asian writings to asses...

This book is the result of a socio-theological analysis of the substantial membership growth of the Christian and Missionary Alliance – C&MA – in Lima, Peru, since 1973. The C&MA is a Christian Protestant denomination with worldwide work, particularly in North America, Latin A...

So, where are missionaries born?  Where do they come from?  What do they do?  Why do they do what they do?  Missionaries come from Jerusalem, and go to Judea, Samaria and to the whole world, don’t they? But, for Ruebem Amores, Jesus’ command to ‘Go!&r...

To understand Islam, one must understand the people who practice their faith.  Consequently, this book is a detailed ethnographic study of two contemporary Sufi communities.  It explores the perplexing range of theological and ritual variation, arguing for a...

This is an abridged version of Mark Beaumont’s Regnum book, Christology in Dialogue with Muslims.   It presents an analysis of Christian presentations of Christ for Muslims in the most creative period of Christian-Muslim dialogue, the first half of the ninth and the secon...

This is an abridged version of Doug Birdsall’s thesis ‘Conflict and Collaboration’.  It explores four stories of evangelical mission history in the late twentieth century.  It takes as its starting point the year 1974, when the historic International Congress on World ...

On Earth as it is in Heaven  presents concrete experiences of social environmental action in churches in Brazil.  Representing a diversity of styles and contexts, coming from different regions of the country, what these experiences and actions have in common is taking a divine ...

The Missionary Vision of the Bible treats the foundational plot of the Bible: the story of God’s love for the world and the mission of his people to live out and proclaim this love.  The emphasis is on the coherence of the biblical message from the beginning to the end. The aut...

This is an abridged version of Samuel Cyuma’s Regnum book, ‘Picking Up the Pieces’ and is a must for any group or individuals interested in learning from the experiences of attempts to construct sustainable peace in this part of Africa....

This book is the third volume on diakonia published by regnum Books.  It follows Diakonia as Christian Social Practice: An Introduction and Diakonia in a Gender Perspective.   For those who believe the church must be active i...

This is an abridged version of Ole Kirchheiner’s Regnum book, Culture and Christianity Negotiated in Hindu Society. Through an examination of the Nepali church the study pays special attention to the way ordinary Christians have been able to settle social and religious issues to live and work toget...

What is Christian Worldview? What are the practical applications or ethical implications of Biblical truths? How can Christians influence society? These are the questions which the authors of this volume seek to answer, along with other issues which challenge biblical faith. Through theor...

In an age of religious confrontation, rationalism and individualism, this book seeks to build bridges of mutual respect between Christians and Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists and Muslims.  They are encouraged to examine the truths in their scriptures and from their foun...

Based on qualitative research, this book explores and analyses issues surrounding the re-entry journey of cross-cultural mission workers.  It aims to promote deeper understanding and increased awareness of the complex nature of the re-entry experience, while highlighting that loss and grief ...

This is an abridged version of Peter Rowan’s Regnum, Book, Proclaiming the Peacemaker.  With a history of racial violence and in recent years, low-level ethnic tensions, the themes of peaceful coexistence and social harmony are recurring ones in the discourse of Malaysian soci...

How do Christians in the global south see the relationship between the church and corruption? This book summarises the views of 101 leaders of churches, Christian faith-based organisations and anti-corruption organisations, as told during in-depth interviews with the author. Capturing voices from ...

This volume deals with religion and Church today focused on secularised contexts in Europe. It poses a challenge to the Church to discern the times and rethink its mission. The new situations everywhere demand careful study. This book prompts the Church to belong to the age by re-telling and re-c...

This book seeks to bring light to the Eastern Churches under early Islam, in order to reveal something of the vigour of Christianity where it has been overlooked or unexpected. Prof David Thomas, University of Birmingham ...

The book brings out principles related to intercultural missions, church-planting and training of local believers. They include aspects of missions praxis which challenge, modify, and/or supplement material in classic and current textbooks. The principles, which centre around affirmation of digni...

The 20th century should be remembered in missions as the time when women got lost. Over that time, the voices of women missionaries, leaders and facilitators of new Christian movements were all too often excluded from missiological discourse and strategic mission discussion. I hope that this book...

The Regnum Edinburgh Centenary Series was brought to completion in the spring of 2017. Thirty-five volumes have been published in the most wide-ranging series on mission and world Christianity in our century. The series has grown out of the centenary project of the Edinburgh 1910 World Missionary...

The Regnum Edinburgh Centenary Series was brought to completion in the spring of 2017. Thirty-five volumes have been published in the most wide-ranging series on mission and world Christianity in our century. The series has grown out of the centenary project of the Edinburgh 1910 World Missionary...

****Benefit from a discount if buying both volumes by adding this bundled version to your shopping cart**** Completed in the spring of 2017, the 35 volumes of the Regnum Edinburgh Centenary Series grew out of the centenary project of the Edinburgh 1910 World Missionary Co...

Christians have been largely silent on the issue of corruption. Roberto Laver has been one of the few voices of the Christian community calling for the church to stand up and address this issue. Laver’s scholarship undergirded by his faith and concern for the poor and marginalized, gives Christian...

"Muy pocos han hecho una contribucion tan sustancial a la reflexion sobre los factores que contribuyen a la corrupcion en America Latina como lo hace Roberto Laver en esta obra. Escribiendo no solo desde la teoria sino desde una comprension contextualizada de esta problematica que afecta directam...

This stimulating and timely volume marks the coming-of-age of an ecumenical Pentecostal mission theology. The collected papers constitute a transnational dialogue over the meaning, shape and future of Pentecostal-charismatic missiology. I highly recommend this ground-breaking work as the launching...

In today’s globalized world as we struggle desperately for social harmony amidst growing religious fundamentalism and militancy, Christians convinced of Christ’s universal relevance are often hard-pressed to find a way to communicate that relevance faithfully and respectfully. The term ’fulfilment’...

Resilience has become something of a buzz word in recent years, especially in the field of member care, but what is it? This book aims to answer this and other important questions. Part one evaluates over forty years of resilience research, exploring how it has been understood in different contex...

This book seeks to bring light to the Eastern Churches under early Islam, in order to reveal something of the vigour of Christianity where it has been overlooked or unexpected. It brings together existing scholarship and adds new, to provide a picture of faith that sees the challenge of mission a...

Central and Eastern Europe is one of the areas of the world that has undergone profound transformations during the 100 years delimited by the two Edinburgh gatherings that inspired the Regnum Edinburgh Centenary Series. It is the place in which Marxist ideology gave birth to the Communist hegemon...

John Lennox, Professor of Mathematics, University of Oxford, Fellow in Mathematics and Philosophy of Science, Green Templeton College, writes:   David Cranston writes unashamedly as a C...

This book succinctly explains the evolving African Christian moral identity, forged between the anvil of African traditional religions and the hammer of Pentecostalism. While at it, Lord Elorm Donkor brilliantly combines Wesleyan moral theology, MacInyrean virtue ethi...

From a Christian perspective … these chapters address the essential needs for combatting sexual exploitation and trafficking; prevention, outreach, and aftercare of victims, and education, organisation and self-care for advocates. ...

The depth and complexity of interconnected global issues facing church and mission leadership today cannot be ignored. Leaders within global church and mission movements are challenged to respond to effects of globalization and other factors upon the mission of God. Rather than modifying existing...

Ole Kirchheiner has made a very important contribution to the limited body of research available about the Nepal church. Yet it is one of the most fascinating stories of modern mission history! Working from the case study of Asha Church in a typically rural area in the centre of the country, but ...

Mission cannot ignore its engagement with power. Christian mission is unavoidably located within matrices of power structures: religion, culture, colonial power, economic and gender. It is not only in the missionary movement largely emanating from the West that Christian mission is linked to stru...

How do lay people in Kenyan Assemblies of God serve each other? What environments help them do this well? Such are some of this book’s key questions. And the key answer? An identity in Christ, rather than ethnicity or culture, is vital. In reaching this and other conclusions, Duke Fitz-Theo...

Leadership, especially Christian leadership, is a subject that needs clear, biblical, theological and contextual thinking. There is no ‘one size fits all’ model of leadership that will work in every context. Roger’s effort in working out the Apostle Paul’s leadership princ...

This book is an integral collection of essays looking at the shaping of Christianity in China with a special emphasis on the contributions of Chinese believers. As well as its geographical scope of the China Mainland, Taiwan and Hong Kong, the material covers a span of time from the end of the Mi...

By the beginning of the twenty first century, Christianity in Africa has taken shape and established roots in all areas of African reality.  It has come to stay.  Therefore we welcome Christianity afresh in Africa, where it has arrived to continue the ancient and vibr...

This work describes the re-shaping of mission in Latin America in recent years. It covers a broad spectrum of Christian movements that coexist in the area. The book includes themes related to theology of mission, ecclesiology, history, social action and leadership. It...

This volume studies Pentecostalism in Latin America as a broad, diverse and multifaceted movement.  It describes different features and colours that together shape its collective face.  This is done from context to context, weaving various relationships with...

At a time when more and more Christians are coming across people from different cultural backgrounds this book addresses a number of important questions. How do we understand what culture is all about? How do we reach out to people from different cultures? What impact...

This book studies the emergence of Christ Groups against the background of western individualistic approached in the Indian rational context.  These small worship groups were formed and grew as the conversion of families began as a result of the literature distri...

Gender perspectives play a core role when it comes to both the theory and practice of diakonia.  This is the second book on diakonia published by Regnum.  It follows up  Diakonia as Christian Social Practice: An Introduction (2014).  ...

The twentieth century saw the demographic and cultural transformation of the Christian Church; yet we have far too few close studies of how churches actually operated on the ground.This account of church developments in Myanmar, set in a wider historical context, is t...

In a world of uncertainty, this volume advocates for a humble confidence in the reconciling work of the Community-of-Love.  Yet further, by bringing together perspectives and experiences of Christians from across the theological and cultural spectrum, it models the re...

The essays in this volume focus on the developing multi religious context in Norway, but like all good contextual theology they also have implications for the wider church.  Because of this, these essays are like paradigms of the kind of theology and missiology t...

Two themes in general run through this book: conflict – both good and bad – and the way that our thinking is still configured by Empire. We are trapped in imperialistic mind sets, not simply the ‘old’ imperialism of Western colonialism but mana...

For the Chinese Churches on the Chinese mainland, the Back to Jerusalem Movement became the catalyst for the evangelical revival of the church and a turning point in their missionary role in the propagation of the gospel. Originally founded in the 1940s as an eschatol...

As the world comes to terms with the human-caused destruction of God’s sacred creation, whether Global Christianity will celebrate a bi-centennial Edinburgh 2110 becomes a real question. Yet, as Creation Care in Christian Mission shows, the mounting an...

This is useful collection of essays that will stand as a testament to the contribution of Dietrich Werner to both the study of World Christianity and Mission.  Werner has worked both as an academic and practitioner as far as the history of Christian mission is co...

Julie Ma's book is a refreshing and much needed return to first principles.  This is God's world; reconciliation is God's work; self-giving service for others is God's way.  Mission is possible precisely because it is God's mission, in God's world, undertake...

This remarkable book could only be written by someone unique like Melba Maggay herself. On every page the reader is struck by the wonderful combination of great spiritual gifts and deep practical wisdom. It is a combination which has grown from the sol of a life-long ...

This is a unique book by a Japanese theologian hailing from Okinawa, a southern prefecture of Japan. Here the reader can see how the biblical principles of justice and love or neighbourly concern can be, should be, and are being, applied to the harsh realities of Okinawa. ...

The Church in India has a far closer connection to Edinburgh 1910, as F S Downs points out, that one of the Indian delegates was Rev Thankan Sangma, a Garo.  This little known fact is illustrative of how, on one hand, the Church in North East India is ignorant of...

We are together on our Pilgrimage of Justice and Peace.  One very significant dimension of this ecumenical movement together in faith, is our movement together in mission, guided by the document Together Towards Life.  It has been developed through a unique ...

The 21st Century is marked by mass migration. Massive population movements of the last century have radically challenged our study and practice of “mission fields.” Where the church once rallied to go out into “the regions beyond,” Ch...

This is a scholarly piece of work, presented in a simple, readable style that should make it easily accessible and beneficial to all, scholars and non-scholars alike. In this book,   Asamoah-Gyadu returns to many familiar themes; he dialogues with other scho...

This volume looks at mission formations for all Christians and missionary formation for mission workers, agencies and churches in a changing situation for mission.  The focus is on educating the whole people of God.  Here is the reason for the title of this volume:  ...

This work is concerned with describing the bond of Protestant social thought to the processes of theorizing about development on Latin America, an aspect that has not received sufficient treatment in most recent literature. An assessment of the Protestant social thoug...

These vigorously written and boldly argued essays are not to be missed by anyone who cares about the vitality and authenticity of the church’s life and mission. An impressive array of scholarly contributions representing different Norwegian Mission agencies have...

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The purpose of this volume on mission and unity is to bring to public attention a broad overview on the history, development and perspectives on the role of mission in the pursuit of unity and the central biblical focus on unity as a prerequisite for an authentic witn...

Forgiveness, essential for all healthy human relations, becomes all the more critical when speaking of good reintegration for child soldiers. Children were both victims and perpetrators of horrendous crimes during Sierra Leone’s ten-year  civil war  th...

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Once considered as a Cinderella in church growth and mission in the post-Edinburgh Conference era, the Korean church is given its due in this book. As a guide to Korean Christianity, it contains more than thirty chapters, written by historians, missiologists, sociolog...

This is a 'must read' collection of essays that are rooted in prayer, in the Scriptures and in the rich histories of two very different traditions.  The variety of topics and perspectives are presented be senior scholars and leaders, giving the reader an excellen...

Christians and Muslims, bound together in a dialogue of life, give expression to the wideness of God’s hospitality and grapple with the difficulties as well as the richness and promises that a shared life brings. In a world where religious and cultural differences often lead to conf...

This book weaves a rich tapestry of historical, sociological,anthropological, biblical and philosophical portraits of migration focusing on East Asia, with a robust theological and missiological response and accompanied by an extensive literature review. Of excellent ...

The concept of diakonia has developed over the last decades, especially within the ecumenicalmovement, to a degree that may be characterized as a paradigm shift. Three main featurescharacterize this change: First, the ecclesial dimension of diakonia is now...

The movement of people from their homelands is increasing exponentially. Such waves of both immigration and migration triggered by various factors have created new opportunities for the church and its mission. This volume explores such global diasporas from both eccle...

Reading the articles in this Handbook about Orthodox theologians on ecumenism, one feels awe at the courage and decisiveness of these great figures who were able to overcome stereotypes and long established perceptions. With God’s blessing these Orthodox theolog...

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Both Christian Missionaries and Indigenous Christians believe that that fundamental role is evangelism.  However, the provision of education and health services are often done as an opening wedge for the Gospel. The revenue accrued from these projects is seen as ...

This volume is the result of six years research in ‘Overcoming Obstacles to Female Education in Burkina Faso’. It narrates how Christians and religious groups can speed up female education and contribute to the socio-economic growth of Burkina Faso. Religi...

This ground-breaking volume of 16 contributors from leading child theologians, mission theologians and practitioners examines the constructive interaction of Theology, Mission and Child in fresh and intriguing ways.  It is moving, profound, and practical, proposi...

The establishment of the State of Israel in 1948 for the Church in the West has been the starting point of a rediscovery of its own roots. In the Middle East the effect has been exactly the opposite: Christians have become estranged from their Old Testament roots, bec...

Grace Korean Church (GKC) was established in 1982 by David Kwangshin Kim in Fullerton, California.  From the very beginning, Kim led the church into a robust missionary engagement, which is being continued and even intesified by his successor, Paul Kihong Han.&nb...

Over the past few decades there has been a growing awareness of the need for contextual theologies throughout Asia. But how genuinely contextual are these? Based on the premise that theology and mission are inseparable, the author applies four missiological criteria t...

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Why are economic inequalities greatest in the southern countries where most people are Christians? This book teases out the web of influences that have created this situation, and concludes that Christians could help reduce economic inequalities by opposing corruption...

Available Now Pentecostalism is the fastest growing stream of Christianity in the world.  The real evidence for the significance of Pentecostalism lies in the actual churches they have built and the numbers they attract.  I...

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This book is the product of the first Stott-Bediako Forum, held in 2012 with the title Portraits of Catalysts. Its aim was to learn from the stories of Christian leaders whose lives and work have served as catalysts for transformation as each, in his or her particular...

A unique book which chronicles the revealing ‘story' of microfinance,captures the rich diversity of the industry and explores the invaluablecontribution of the Christian faith to this vibrant and fast-growingmulti-billion dollar global business.Professor ...

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Available Now This book explores the identity, context and features of Pentecostalism in Rajasthan, India as well as the internal and external issues facing Pentecostals.  It argues for an indigenous origin of Pentecostalism in ...

This book argues for the primacy of spirituality in the practice of mission.  Since God is the primary agent of mission and God works through the power of the Holy spirit, it is through openness to the Spirit that mission finds its true character and has its authentic impact. ...

This book addresses the causes and the consequences of culture change in Ethiopia, from Haile Selassie to the present, based on thorough academic research. Although the book is written from an evangelical perspective, it invites Ethiopians from all religious, ideologi...

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Available Now This book explores and analyses funerary rite struggles in a nation where Christianity is a comparatively recent phenomenon, and many families have Christian and Hindu, Buddhist and Tradionalist (kiranti) members, who g...

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Orthodox Perspectives on Mission is both a humble tribute to some great Orthodox theologians, who in the past have provided substantial contribution to contemporary missiological and ecumenical discussions, and an Orthodox input to the upcoming 2013 Busan WCC General ...

This impressive and comprehensive publication focuses on key resources for teaching on Christian unity and common witness in Asian contexts.  It is a collection of articles that reflects the ongoing 'double wrestle', with the texts of biblical tradition as well as with contemporary contexts,...

AVAILABLE TO BUY NOW! PICKING UP THE PIECES The Church anad Conflict Resolution in South Africa and Rwanda In th...

AVAILABLE NOW! A LEARNING MISSIONAL CHURCH EDITED BY BEATE FAGERLI, KNUD JORGENSEN, ROLV OLSEN, KARI STORSTEIN HAUG AND KNUT TVEITEREID ...

Avalaible now. Equipping for Service, Christian Leadershiop in Church and Socieyu, by Knud Jorgensen, is written out of decades of experience of leading churches and missions in Ethiopia, Geneva, Norway and Hong Kon...

Available Now While adjusting to a new identity is akin to adjusting to a new set of skin, even more difficult is realising that this new skin may not be as comfortable or as pleasant as the old one.  In this book, Kathryn Kraft...

AVALIABLE NOW! RESOURCES AND OPPORTUNITY The Architecture of Livelihoods in Rural Kenya Poor people in mos...

AVAILABLE NOW! CHILD, CHURCH AND COMPASSION BY BILL PREVETTE Children are hungry and homeless.  Christia...

AVALIABLE NOW! LIFE-WIDENING MISSION EDITED BY CATHY ROSS Each of the young Anglicans who write on the Five M...

AVAILABLE NOW! PROCLAIMING THE PEACEMAKER The Malaysian Church as an agent of reconciliation in a multicultural Society ...

Reprint Available NOW This book provides a thematic discussion and pioneering case studies on the history and development of Pentecostal and Charismatic churches in the countries of South Asia, South East Asia and East Asia. This is a very importa...

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Civilisations in Conflict? J. Andrew Kirk Samuel Huntington’s thesis, which argues that there appear to be aspects of Islam that could be on a collision course with the politics and values of Western societies, has...

Korean Diaspora and Christian Mission AVAILABLE NOW!   "If you are interested in diaspora missiology, this is a ...

  Available Now! The centennial celebrations of the Edinburgh 1910 conference offered Christians of all stripes multiple opportunities to reflect on the past century of mission. Over the course of the twentieth century one o...

Available Now! Edinburgh 2010 has a special relevance for Christians in India particurlarly when we consider the contributions Indian Christians continue to make both academically as well as in their day-to-day lives t...

Available now! Mission and Postmodernities by Rov Olsen It is here, under these trees on my desert island that t...

Available Now! Witnessing to Christ in a Pluralistic Age: Christian Mission among Other Faiths The relationship ...

God Has Not Left Himself Without Witness Available NOW! Since its earliest inception the Christian Church has had to address the question of what common ground exists between Christian faiths and other religions. This stu...

Jesus and the Incarnation Reflections of Christians from Islamic Contexts David Emmanuel Singh In the ...

Available Now! Planting an Indigenous Church The Case of the Borneo Evangelical Mission The story of the BEM and...

Odwira and the Gospel A Study of the Asante Odwira Festival and its Significance for Christianity in Ghana Frank Kwesi Adams The study of the Odwira festi...

Book Description This book proposes that Christian theology in Africa can have a significant impact if a critical understanding of the socio-political situation in contemporary Africa is taken seriously. The Christian leadership in post-colonial Africa has cloned its unde...

The Edinburgh 2010 study process is unique. Set up to mark the centenary of the World Missionary Conference, Edinburgh 1910, it is a project of churches worldwide which is multi-regional, cross-denominational and poly-centric. It involves all the major Christian world...

Bruce Carlton Strategy CoordinatorChanging the Course of Southern Baptist Missions Book Description In 1976, the Southern Baptist Conve...

Mission in the Spirit: Towards a Pentecostal/Charismatic Missiology Wonsuk Ma & Julie Ma The book explores the unique contribution of Pentecostal/Char...

Mission Continues Claudia Wahrisch-Oblau and Fidon Mwombeki (Editors) In May 2009, 35 theologians from Asia, Africa and Europe met in Wuppertal, Germany, for a consultation on mission theology...

Theological education is vital for the future of World Christianity—this conviction lies at the heart of this publication. Theological education has the potential to be the seedbed for the renewal of churches, their ministries, mission, and commitment to Christian unity. ...

Holisitc Mission God's Plan for God's People Edited by Brian Woolnough and Wonsuk Ma ...

Socio-religious values and socio-economic development are inter-dependant, inter-related and are constantly changing in the context of macro political structures, economic policy, religious organizations and globalization; and micro influences such as local affinities, identity, politics, leaders...

This book looks at leadership in the social context of a slum in Bangkok from an angle different from traditional studies which measure well educated Thais on leadership scales derived in the West. Using both systematic data collection and participant observation, it develops a culturally preferr...

No one can hope to fully understand the modern Christian missionary movement without engaging substantially with the World Missionary Conference, held at Edinburgh in 1910. As the centenary of the Conference approaches, the time is ripe to examine its meaning in light of the past century and the ...

REVISIONING CHRISTIAN UNITY – The Global Christian Forum...

This book traces the historical and doctrinal development of the Holy Spirit Movement in Korea through five successive periods (from 1900 to the present time). The first period (1900-20) was characterised by repentance and revival, the second period (1920-40) by persecution and suffering under Ja...

Nigeria has become the arena of one of the most remarkable religious movements of recent times, reflecting the shift in the global centre of Christianity from the North to the South. This book tells the story of one sector of this movement from its roots in the Nigerian civil war to the turn of t...

Director of Areopagos and Associate Professor of Missiology at MF Norwegian School of Theology, Dr. Knud Jψrgensen, is 65 years on September 29, 2007. On this occasion a festschrift in his honour is published by Regnum in cooperation with Areopagos and Egede Instituttet in Oslo, Norway. K...

This volume is a way of marking an important milestone in the relatively short story of the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies (OCMS). The papers here have been exclusively sourced from Transformation, a quarterly journal of OCMS and seek to provide a tripartite view of Christianity’s engage...

The papers in this volume are organised in three parts: scriptural, contextual and theological. The central question being addressed is: how do Christians living in contexts where Islam is a majority or minority religion, experience, express or think of the cross? This is therefore an exercise in...

Since Christianity was introduced to Korea more than a century ago, one of the most controversial issue has been the Korean term for the Christian ‘God’. This issue is not merely about naming the Christian God in Korean language, but it relates to the question of theological contextualization—the...

Lausanne '74 inspired evangelicals around the world to take seriously the full implications of the Gospel for mission. This was especially true of a worldwide network of radical evangelical mission theologians and practitioners, whose post-Lausanne reflections found harbour in the notion of "Miss...

This book investigates the charismatic leadership of Saul, David and Solomon. It suggests that charismatic leaders emerge in crisis situations in order to resolve the crisis by the charisma granted by God. Regarding Saul, the book argues that he proved himself as a charismatic leader as long...

This book reconstructs the Christian political theology of Bishop John Henry Okullu, DD, through establishing what motivated him and the biblical basis for his socio-political activities. It also attempts to reconstruct the socio-political environment that nurtured Dr Okullu’s prophetic min...

This book analyses Christian presentations of Christ for Muslims in the most creative periods of Christian-Muslim dialogue, the first half of the ninth century and the second half of the twentieth century. In these two periods, Christians made serious attempts to present their faith in Christ in ...

Leadership Expectations is an in-depth study of expectations which focuses on how one leader creates and uses them to shape a university, its culture and its success.  This research operates on the underlying assumption that the organisation is an expression of the leader and the pe...

Since the early years of the twentieth century Christianity has become a new factor in Rwandan society. This book investigates the role Christian churches played in the formulation and development of the racial ideology that culminated in the 1994 genocide....

This is a missiology book for the church which liberates missiology from the specialists for every believer. It also serves as a textbook that is simple and friendly, and yet solid in biblical interpretation. This book links the biblical teaching to the actual and contemporary missiological setti...

With rare exceptions, serious intentional, relflective and sustained inter-faith encounter is a novel and recent enterprise. This book looks in detail at one such encounter - the intentional recent Hindu-Christian dialogue in India - and asks why and how the practice of dialogue came to replace p...

Founded by David Yonggi Cho, Yoido Full Gospel Church is the world's largest church. This book discusses the factors responsible for the phenomenal growth of this church. The book expounds the role played by leadership, the Holy Spirit, prayer, preaching, cell groups and creativity in promoting c...

'I strongly recommend this book by Bishop Gideon Githiga. He did thorough research concerning the contribution of the church in the life of the Kenyan Nation. I have no doubt readers will find this a stimulating book.' The Most Rev Dr David M. Gitari, Archbishop of Kenya and Bishop of Nai...

This work is written from an evangelical point of view revalidating and reaffirming the Christian commitment to wholistic mission. The author has expressed his unflinching loyalty to the cause of evangelism in its entirety. According to him, the roots of the model for the "wholistic mission" comb...

Beyond Fragmentation is an inquiry into the development of mission studies in evangelical theological education in Germany and German-speaking Switzerland between 1960-1995. This is carried out by a detailed examination of the paradigm shifts which have taken place in recent years in both the the...

Jesus in Africa is the first in a series entitled Theological Reflections from the South, a new collaborative venture between two African publishers which aims to make accessible within Africa at an affordable price, in both English and French, some of the creative thinking emerging from the Sout...

"The literature on contextual theology and situational ethics now has a standard to rise to." Lamin Sanneh D. Willis James Professor of Missions and World Christianity, Yale Universi...

Finalist for the 1992 HarperCollins Religious Book Award Kwame Bediako examines the question of Christian identity in the context of the Greco-Roman culture of the early Roman Empire. He then addresses the modern African predicament of quests for identity and int...

The Southern Baptist International Mission Board Faces the Third Millennium The International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention is the largest denominational mission agency in North America. This volume chronicles the historic and contemporary forces that led to the IMB’s rec...

The main focus of this historical study is social change and transformation among the Dalit Christian communities in India. Historiography tests the evidence in the light of the conclusions of the modern Dalit liberation theologians....

Mission as Transformation: A theology of the whole gospel brings together in one volume twenty-five years of biblical reflection on mission practice with the poor from around the world. The whole gospel is centred on the rule of Christ over the whole of life. It seeks to impact a communit...

This book is a detailed examination of contemporary Asian Christian praxis, and a real contribution to the discussion of context, identity and social engagement. Hitherto, a great deal of the discussion on context and identity has been awash in a floodtide of historical moralisation, cultural rel...

Since World War II, many efforts towards contextual Asian Christian theologies have been made. But how truly contextual are these? Theology and mission are inseparable, and a truly contextual theology is one which empowers the church in mission. This study applies four criteria to representative ...

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Engaging the World deals with the lived experiences and expressions of Christians in diverse communities across the globe.  Christian communities do not live in a vacuum but in complex, diverse social-cultural contexts; within wider communities of differ...

This collection of essays has sought to achieve a good representation of mentors,colleagues and disciples from around the world. The contributions come from a variety ofcountries, theological disciplines and perspectives, and represent either a direct...

“The Bible is alive – it has hands and grabs hold of me, it has feet and runs after me”. Thus spoke Martin Luther, as cited by Knud Jørgensen in a quotation that summarizes the deeper meaning of this book. To the authors of Bible in Mission, t...

Tom Houston held top jobs in several Christian organisations. This is the story of what he learned as he did them. He writes about his own experience. Then he tries to say what he thinks Jesus taught about governance in a well known story from the gospels. He moves on...

Corruption blights the lives of countless people around our world. It is a scourge of the poor and weak. It is a road block to change. It is detestable to God. The purpose of this book is to transform attitudes and behaviours of Christians who live in societies where corrupt behaviour is a fact ...

Reception of Christ as Saviour has been poor to the Maasai people, especially in Tanzania. Missiological approaches have not proved to be practical to them. That is why the book’s author proposes an Appropriational Model as an effective missiological model of co...

Stop the traffick? How do we even begin addressing such an important – and yet overwhelming – task? If you are a practitioner striving to assist victims or a faith-based organization wondering how to get involved you may be wrestling with questions like: H...

Mission At and From the Margins: Patterns, Protagonists and Pespectives revisits the 'hi-stories' of Mission from the 'bottom up' paying critical attention to people, perspectives and patterns that have often been elided in the construction of mission history...

Scotland has played a major role in the worldwide movement of Christian mission. Equally, the missionary movement has played a big part in Scotland’s story. There have been many studies of particular people, places and periods which feature in this story. The di...

There is hope – even if it is “Hope in a Fragile World”, as the concluding chapter of Mission as Ministry of Reconciliation puts it. At the very heart of the gospel of Jesus Christ is a message of hope and reconciliation. Nothing could be more releva...

The Lausanne Movement has since 1974 functioned as a platform and forum for Evangelical leaders from various geographical and confessional strands. This year it will celebrate its 40th anniversary. This volume brings together voices about both The Lausanne Movement an...

The idea of a trilogy containing reflections by Christians living in Islamic contexts was born in 2004. The first volume on Jesus and the Cross appeared in 2009. The second volume, Jesus and the Incarnation, was published in 2011. The third volume here is concerned wi...

Available Now This volume provides an important resource for those wishing to gain an overview of significant issues in contemporary missiology whilst understanding how they are applied in particular contexts.  Contributors from...

This book discusses how sustainable, holistic, community development can be, and is being, achieved through the work of the local church. Leading African development practitioners describe different aspects of development through their own experience. This book brilliantly introduces us t...