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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,...

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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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

AVALIABLE NOW! RESOURCES AND OPPORTUNITY The Architecture of Livelihoonds in Rural Kenya Poor people in mo...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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! 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...

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...

The Church Going Glocal Available Now! 'This book provides thought-provoking and inspiring reading for all concerned with mission in the 21st century. I have been challenged by its contributors t...

Mission Today and Tomorrow ...

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

Christianity and Education Shaping Christian Thinking in Context AVAILABLE NOW! ...

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 p...

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

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

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 festival...

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...

Eschatology and Ecology Experiences of the Korean Church Paul Hang-Sik Cho   This book raises the questi...

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

THE HANDBOOK OF THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION IN WORLD CHRISTIANITY Dietrich Werner, David Esterline, Namsoon Kang, Joshva Raja...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 contextua...

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...

Born of the nineteenth-century Evangelical Awakening, and closely linked to Hudson Taylor and the China Inland Mission he found in 1865, faith missions were unique in two key areas: they were interdenominational and they held firmly to the 'faith principle' of financial support. The faith mission...

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 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 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 ...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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....

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...

Everett Wilson, a long-time Pentecostal missionary among the Hispanic people, wrote a well-researched contribution on the life and role of J. Philip Hogan, as the primary architect of the missionary work of the U.S. Assemblies of God (AG). The main strength of this work is the vast amount of materia...

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...

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 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...

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 Jørgensen, 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....

Presenting a biblical basis for the ministry of healing and emphasising the centrality of the gospel, Robert Hillman, Coral Chamberlain and Linda Harding reflect on current views about healing, the Holy Spirit and the renewal of the church. Biblical 'holistic healing' Why are some not...

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...

The past decade has seen a remarkable growth in mission in countries in the 10-40 window. Dynamic mission groups are always searching for authentic approaches to enable them to serve communities with integrity and remain faithful to the biblical message. Of the various approaches attempte...

An important contribution to the ongoing discussion of the church's relationship to social development, this book contains the revised conference proceedings from the consultation "The Church in Response to Human Need," held in Wheaton, Illinois, in June of 1983. In the papers collected h...

Indian Islam is unique. It is generally cast, both by the popular media and academia, in an image that is severely totalitarian. Mahdawiyya is one among several sects within Indian Islam, which takes continuing revelation seriously. It does so without discarding the traditional belief in the fina...

Kä Mana, from the Democratic Republic of Congo, now living in Porto Novo, Benin, is a contemporary francophone African Theologian. This text gives English speaking readers access to his current concerns and to research and reflection being carried out in the francophone African theological c...

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...

'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 research critically examines the involvement of the Church of Pakistan in development of the poor people by way of a comparative case-study of two key dioceses, Multan and Hyderabad. The development priorities in the Dioceses studied have been defined and adopted mainly by the Dio...

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...

Traidcraft is twenty-one years old. It grew out of a passionate desire to give some practical expression to principles of justice and love in international trade, and thereby to provide an opportunity to poor people in various parts of the world to compete on fair terms with dignity, and to value...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

Contents 1. THE ANALYSIS OF MODERNITY What is modernity? Historical roots and contemporary featuresProf James D. Hunter, Professor of Sociology, University Of Virginia, USA....