• Evangelical Theologies of Liberation and Justice, Edited by Mae Elise Cannon and Andrea Smith
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    Evangelical Theologies of Liberation and Justice

    Edited by Mae Elise Cannon and Andrea Smith

    Despite the current evangelical focus on justice work, evangelical theologians have not adequately developed a theological foundation for this activism. In this insightful resource, evangelical academics, activists, and pastors come together to survey the history and outlines of liberation theology, opening a conversation for developing a specifically evangelical view of liberation that speaks to the critical justice issues of our time.

  • Seeking Church: Emerging Witnesses to the Kingdom, By Darren T. Duerksen and William A. Dyrness
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    Seeking Church

    Emerging Witnesses to the Kingdom

    Missiological Engagements

    by Darren T. Duerksen and William A. Dyrness

    New expressions of church, including so-called insider movements, are proliferating among non-Christian religious communities worldwide. Drawing on the growing social-scientific work on emergent theory, Darren Duerksen and William Dyrness explore how all Christian movements have been and are engaged in a "reverse hermeneutic," where the gospel is read and interpreted through existing cultural and religious norms.

  • Can
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    Can "White" People Be Saved?

    Triangulating Race, Theology, and Mission

    Missiological Engagements

    Edited by Love L. Sechrest, Johnny Ramírez-Johnson, and Amos Yong
    Contributions by Willie James Jennings, Andrea Smith, Hak Joon Lee, Akintunde E. Akinade, Elizabeth Conde-Frazier, Angel D. Santiago-Vendrell, Andrew T. Draper, Erin Dufault-Hunter, Clifton Clarke, Daniel Jeyaraj, and Jonathan Tran

    White normativity as a way of being in the world has been parasitically joined to Christianity, and this is the ground of many of our problems today. Written by a world-class roster of scholars, this volume develops language to describe the current realities of race and racism, challenging evangelical Christianity to think more critically and constructively about race, ethnicity, migration, and mission in relation to white supremacy.

  • Megachurch Christianity Reconsidered: Millennials and Social Change in African Perspective, By Wanjiru M. Gitau
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    Megachurch Christianity Reconsidered

    Millennials and Social Change in African Perspective

    Missiological Engagements

    by Wanjiru M. Gitau
    Foreword by Mark R. Shaw

    In this case study of Kenya's Nairobi Chapel and its "daughter" Mavuno Church, Wanjiru M. Gitau offers analysis of the rise, growth, and place of megachurches worldwide in the new millennium. This engaging account centers on the role of millennials in responding to the dislocating transitions of globalization in postcolonial Africa and around the world, gleaning practical wisdom for postdenominational churches everywhere.

  • The Global Diffusion of Evangelicalism: The Age of Billy Graham and John Stott, By Brian Stanley
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    The Global Diffusion of Evangelicalism

    The Age of Billy Graham and John Stott

    History of Evangelicalism Series

    by Brian Stanley

    In this fifth volume in the History of Evangelicalism series, Brian Stanley offers an authoritative survey of worldwide evangelicalism from the 1940s to the 1990s. He makes extensive use of primary sources and covers a range of key topics, issues, trends and events, along with prominent and lesser-known figures from the era.

  • Serving God in a Migrant Crisis: Ministry to People on the Move, By Patrick Johnstone
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    Serving God in a Migrant Crisis

    Ministry to People on the Move

    Operation World Resources

    by Patrick Johnstone
    With Dean Merrill
    Foreword by Stephan Bauman

    Millions are on the move in today's world, and Christians have a unique perspective on this migrant crisis: after all, Jesus was a refugee. Patrick Johnstone and Dean Merrill help us understand what's causing today's refugee crisis, explore Christian theology and tradition on migration, and show us how Christian workers around the globe are opening their hearts to embrace these modern outcasts.

  • In Search of Christ in Latin America: From Colonial Image to Liberating Savior, By Samuel Escobar
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    In Search of Christ in Latin America

    From Colonial Image to Liberating Savior

    by Samuel Escobar
    Foreword by C. René Padilla

    Noted theologian Samuel Escobar offers a magisterial survey and study of Christology in Latin America. Presented for the first time in English, this rich resource starts with the first Spanish influence and moves through popular religiosity and liberationist themes in Catholic and Protestant thought of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, culminating in an important description of the work of the Latin American Theological Fraternity.

  • The Future of the Global Church: History, Trends and Possibilities, By Patrick Johnstone
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    The Future of the Global Church

    History, Trends and Possibilities

    Operation World Resources

    by Patrick Johnstone

    In The Future of the Global Church, Patrick Johnstone, author of six editions of the phenomenal prayer guide, Operation World, draws on his fifty years experience to present a breathtaking, full-color graphical and textual overview of the past, present and possible future of the church around the world.

  • Global Awakening: How 20th-Century Revivals Triggered a Christian Revolution, By Mark R. Shaw
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    Global Awakening

    How 20th-Century Revivals Triggered a Christian Revolution

    by Mark R. Shaw

    The last century has seen the revolutionary remaking of Christianity into a truly world religion. How did it happen? Mark Shaw's provocative thesis is that far-flung revivals in places like Africa, Korea, Brazil and India are at the heart of the global resurgence of Christianity.

  • Grassroots Asian Theology: Thinking the Faith from the Ground Up, By Simon  Chan
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    Grassroots Asian Theology

    Thinking the Faith from the Ground Up

    by Simon Chan

    A dynamic chapter of church history is now being written in Asia. But the theological inflections at its heart are not well understood by outsiders. Simon Chan explores Asian Christianity at its grassroots, sustaining level and finds a vibrant, implicit theology that is authentically Asian. More than a survey, this is a serious and constructive contribution to Asian theology.

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