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PaperbackThe New Shape of World Christianity
How American Experience Reflects Global Faith
by Mark A. Noll
- 2010 Christianity Today Book Award winner
With characteristic rigor and insight, in this book Mark Noll revisits the history of the American church in the context of world events. He makes the compelling case that how Americans have come to practice the Christian faith is just as globally important as what the American church has done in the world. He ...
PaperbackExplorations in Asian Christianity
History, Theology, and Mission
Missiological Engagements
by Scott W. Sunquist
Asia is the birthplace of Christianity. If Christianity is not usually seen as an Asian religion, that is because the history of Christianity in Asia has long been a difficult one. Whereas Christianity in the West received royal support, Asian Christianity has led a more nomadic and exilic existence. Today it is the least Christianized region of the world.
Scott W. Sunquist is a recognized ...
PaperbackMission in Polycentric Perspective
Collaborative Theory and Praxis for a Global Church
Edited by Allen Yeh and Joseph W. Handley
The Definitive Mission Resource from Everyone to Everywhere
Mission in today's world demands a framework as global as the church itself. Featuring scholars and practitioners from every continent and various Christian traditions, Mission in Polycentric Perspective explores both the theory and practice of polycentric mission across cultural, theological, and organizational ...
PaperbackThe Barnabas Factor
How Crosscultural Partnership Amplifies Global Mission
Foreword by Paul Borthwick
Edited by Joshua Thomas IrbyGlobal Voices on Global Mission
Global mission has moved into a new era when it is no longer just "from the West to the rest" but rather "from everywhere to everywhere." But too often mission workers have not partnered wellwith local communities, hurting Christian witness and ministry efforts. And as the global church sends more and more missionaries, how can we learn from ...
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All Christian worship is led by the Holy Spirit. But is there a distinctive theology of Pentecostal worship? In this interview, author Steven Felix-Jager discusses Spirit-led doxology, implications for the global church, and his own experience of sensing the presence of the Holy Spirit in worship.
PaperbackTranscending Mission
The Eclipse of a Modern Tradition
by Michael W. Stroope
IVP Readers' Choice Award
Mission, missions, missional, and all its linguistic variations are part of the expanding vocabulary and rhetoric of the contemporary Christian missionary enterprise. Its language and assumptions are deeply ingrained in the thought and speech of the church today. Christianity is a missionary religion and faithful churches are mission-minded. What's ...
PaperbackThe Blessing of Africa
The Bible and African Christianity
by Keith A Burton
According to some estimates, Africa will soon have the highest concentration of Christians in the world. But African Christianity has had a long and conflicted history. Even today, modern misinterpretations of Scripture argue for God's curse uponthe dark-skinned peoples of Africa.In this comprehensive study, Keith Burton traces the story of biblical Africa and the place of the Bible in the land ...
PaperbackFreeing Congregational Mission
A Practical Vision for Companionship, Cultural Humility, and Co-Development
by B. Hunter Farrell
With Shankur Balajiedlang KhyllepThere is a deepening crisis in mission as practiced by North American congregations. Many mission activities are more effective at satisfying church members than making a lasting difference, producing what's too often consumer-oriented "selfie mission." Too much effort is based on colonial-era assumptions of mission launched from a position of power. These practices are not just ...
PaperbackA Just Mission
Laying Down Power and Embracing Mutuality
by Mekdes Haddis
Foreword by Latasha MorrisonWhy do American Christians travel overseas to reach people in distant lands, but neglect ministering to people who immigrate from those lands to their home communities?
Why does Western missions funding depend on narrativesthat marginalize indigenous leadership?
Why are diaspora Christians from the Global South not seen as legitimate missionaries to the West?
Western ...
PaperbackWar, Peace, and Violence: Four Christian Views
Spectrum Multiview Book Series
Edited by Paul Copan
In a world of war, terrorism, and other geopolitical threats to global stability, how should committed Christians honor Jesus Christ and his Word? How should Christians think and act when it comes to church-state relations, the preservation of order, the practice of just peacemaking, and the use of coercive force?
In this volume in IVP Academic's Spectrum series, four contributors—experts ...
