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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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