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Review of ‘A Missional Orthodoxy’ by Gary Tyra
Gary Tyra, A Missional Orthodoxy: Theology and Ministry in a Post-Christian Context (Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2013). Paperback / Kindle According to research by The Pew Forum on Religion and...
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Review of ‘The Next America’ by Paul Taylor and the Pew Research Center
Paul Taylor, The Next America: Boomers, Millennials, and the Looming Generational Showdown (New York: PublicAffairs, 2014). Hardcover / Kindle The Next America is not a book about how to contextualize...
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Review of ‘Mission in the Early Church’ by Edward L. Smither
Edward L. Smither, Mission in the Early Church: Themes and Reflections (Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2014). The aim of Mission in the Early Church is “to begin a discussion about early Christian mission that...
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Review of ‘The Cross-Cultural Process in Christian History’ by Andrew F. Walls
Walls, Andrew F. 2002. The Cross-Cultural Process in Christian History: Studies in the Transmission and Appropriation of Faith. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis. The Cross-Cultural Process in Christian History is...
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The Dynamics of Christian Mission | Book Review
Paul Pierson’s The Dynamics of Christian Mission consists of lectures on Christian history from a class he taught for twenty-five years at Fuller Theological Seminary’s School of Intercultural Studies....
View ArticleWhy Missions Needs Missionaries | Influence Podcast
This past summer, thousands of Assemblies of God churchgoers went on short-term missions trips. These trips often do much good. They certainly change the people who go on them for the better. But is it...
View ArticleFor the Love of God | Book Review
For the Love of God, edited by Jerry M. Ireland, examines “principles and practice of compassion in missions,” as the subtitle puts it. Part 1 examines principles, and Part 2 examines practices....
View ArticleWhole and Reconciled | Book Review
One of the central debates among evangelical missiologists in the past century concerned the relationship between evangelism and social concern. In the mid- to late-twentieth century, many evangelical...
View ArticleChristianity Encountering World Religions | Book Review
In Christianity Encountering World Religions, Terry Muck and Frances S. Adeney provide an “explanation of and argument for giftive mission” (7). They state their thesis up front: Mission to peoples of...
View ArticleThe Gospel in a Pluralist Society | Book Review
According to Lesslie Newbigin, the countries of the “Western world” constitute a “pluralist society,” not merely in the sense of “variety of cultures, religions, and life-styles,” but in the sense that...
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