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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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. ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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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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...

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...

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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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

"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 ...

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...

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...