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PaperbackSpiritual Formation for the Global Church
A Multi-Denominational, Multi-Ethnic Approach
Edited by Ryan A. Brandt and John Frederick
The church is called to grow in Christ. Yet too often, it ignores the practical dimensions of the faith.
The church is one in Christ. Yet too often, it is divided by national, denominational, theological, and racial or ethnic boundaries.
The church is a global body of believers. Yet too often, it privileges a few voices and fails to recognize its own diversity.
In response, this ...
PaperbackGlobal Awakening
How 20th-Century Revivals Triggered a Christian Revolution
by Mark Shaw
The last century has seen the revolutionary remaking of Christianity into a truly world religion. How did it happen? What triggered the emergence of this new global faith no longer dominated by the West, full of new and vital forms of devotion?Mark Shaw's provocative thesis is that far-flung revivals are at the heart of the global resurgence of Christianity. These were not the quirky folk rituals ...
PaperbackThe New Global Mission
The Gospel from Everywhere to Everyone
by Samuel Escobar
Christian mission is no longer a matter of missionaries from the West going to the rest of the world. Rather, the growth of Christianity in Latin America, Africa and parts of Asia is eclipsing that of the Western church. In the third millennium ofthe Christian era, Christian mission is truly global, with missionaries from all places going to all peoples. Veteran missiologist Samuel Escobar presents ...
PaperbackWestern Christians in Global Mission
What's the Role of the North American Church?
by Paul Borthwick
Foreword by Femi B. AdeleyeChristianity Today Book Award of Merit Winner
Outreach Magazine Resource of the Year
The world has changed.
A century ago, Christianity was still primarily centered in North America and Europe. By the dawn of the twenty-first century, Christianity had become a truly global faith, with Christians in Asia, Africa ...
PaperbackThe Shape of Christian History
Continuity and Diversity in the Global Church
by Scott W. Sunquist
While understanding history has always been an essential task for God's people, rapid changes within the past two generations of Christianity have challenged many of our assumptions and methods for studying the past. How should thoughtful Christians—and especially historians and missiologists—make sense of global Christianity as an unfolding historical movement?
Scott Sunquist ...
PaperbackGlobal Theology in Evangelical Perspective
Exploring the Contextual Nature of Theology and Mission
Wheaton Theology Conference Series
Edited by Jeffrey P. Greenman and Gene L. Green
Jeffrey P. Greenman and Gene L. Green edit this collection of essays from the proceedings of the 2011 Wheaton Theology Conference. The essays explore the past, present and future shape of biblical interpretation and theological engagement in the Majority World. Leading scholars from around the world interact with the key theological issues being discussed in their regions. In addition, some theological ...
PaperbackSpirit Outside the Gate
Decolonial Pneumatologies of the American Global South
Missiological Engagements
by Oscar García-Johnson
Throughout the history of the Christian church, two narratives have constantly clashed: the imperial logic of Babel that builds towers and borders to seize control, versus the logic of Pentecost that empowers "glocal" missionaries of the kingdom life. To what extent are Westernized Christians today ready for the church of the Pentecost narrative? Are they equipped to do ministry ...
PaperbackKingdom Without Borders
The Untold Story of Global Christianity
by Miriam Adeney
The twenty-first century opened with a rapidly changing map of Christianity. While its influence is waning in some of its traditional Western strongholds, it is growing at a phenomenal pace in the global South. And yet this story has largely eluded the corporate news brokers of the West. Layered as it is with countless personal and corporate stories of remarkable faith and witness, it nevertheless ...
PaperbackChrist and Covenant in Global Politics
A Christian Introduction to International Relations
by Robert J. Joustra
A New Perspective for Biblical Justice in International Relations
Practicing a Christian vision of justice as a citizen in one’s own country is difficult enough. Add on the challenge of establishing and living out a Christian ethic among states, where there may be few established norms and shared values, and you have the gargantuan task of doing international relations.
Does ...
PaperbackReading the Bible Around the World
A Student’s Guide to Global Hermeneutics
by Federico Alfredo Roth, Justin M. Smith, Kirsten S. Oh, Alice Yafeh, and Kay Higuera Smith
Parish Clergy Award
It's an exciting time to be reading the Bible. As we increasingly encounter readers with perspectives, experiences, and cultures different from our own, we can incorporate new ideas and approaches to interpreting Scripture. When diverse interpretations from various social locations are gathered together, we gain new vistas and a fuller ...
