Other Books Received
Other Books Received
Cocker, Marcia. 2011. As Far as You Can Go and Still Be in God’s Hands: Letters from Papua New Guinea. West Nyack, N.Y.: Others Press.
The Missional Church in Perspective: Mapping Trends and Shaping the Conversation
by Craig Van Gelder and Dwight J. Zscheile Baker Academic, P.O. Box 6287, Grand Rapids, MI 49516, 208 pages, 2011, $19.99. —Reviewed by Jason McKnight, lead pastor, Grace Fellowship Church, Kinston, North Carolina. This book is meant to do two things: provide an update in the area of missional church, and move the conversation forward. […]
Reaching and Teaching: A Call to Great Commission Obedience
by M. David Sills Moody Publishers, 820 N. LaSalle Blvd., Chicago, IL 60610, 256 pages, 2010, $16.99. —Reviewed by John Charping, Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary. Is the Great Commission about decisions or disciples? Reaching and Teaching is a call to a balanced missiology of maturing and multiplying churches. M. David Sills, former missionary and current […]
Introduction to Missiological Research Design
by Edgar J. Elliston William Carey Library, 1605 E. Elizabeth St., Pasadena, CA 91104, 272 pages, 2011, $19.99. —Reviewed by James Nelson, vice president, Global Mapping International; senior research associate, Fruitful Practice Research. The cover diagram looks a little like Bohr’s model of the atom. While missiological research design is not nuclear science, it […]
Evangelism: A Biblical Response to Today’s Questions
by J. D. Payne Biblica, 1820 Jet Stream Drive, Colorado Springs, CO 80921, 174 pages, 2011, $17.99. —Reviewed by Jerry Root, associate professor of evangelism, Wheaton College. J. D. Payne, a missionary and associate professor of church planting and evangelism at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, has produced a book on evangelism that clearly benefits from […]
After Imperialism: Christian Identity in China and the Global Evangelical Movement
by Richard R. Cook and David W. Pao, eds. Pickwick Publications, 199 W. 8th Ave., Suite 3, Eugene, OR 97401, 256 pages, 2011, $28.00. —Reviewed by Allen Yeh, professor of missiology, Cook School of Intercultural Studies, Biola University, La Mirada, California. The two centers of gravity of evangelical Christianity today are undoubtedly China and sub-Saharan […]
A New History of Christianity in China
by Daniel H. Bays Wiley-Blackwell, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex PO19 8SQ, 256 pages, 2012, $89.95. —Reviewed by Richard R. Cook, associate professor of church history and missions, Logos Evangelical Seminary, El Monte, California. Kenneth Scott LaTourette published his authoritative and sweeping A History of Christian Missions in China in 1929. Over eighty years later […]
A Muslim’s Mind: What Every Christian Needs to Know about the Islamic Traditions
by Edward J. Hoskins Dawson Media, 3820 N. 30th Street, Colorado Springs, CO 80904, 173 pages, 2011, $12.99. —Reviewed by Don Little, Islamic missiologist, Pioneers; missionary scholar-in-residence, Houghton College, Houghton, New York. The subtitle of this book is surprisingly accurate! Every Christian who wants to understand Muslims from the inside should read this book. Dr. […]
A Light to the Nations: The Missional Church and the Biblical Story
by Michael W. Goheen Baker Academic, P.O. Box 6287, Grand Rapids, MI 49516, 256 pages, 2011, $22.99. —Reviewed by Marcus W. Dean, associate professor and chair, Intercultural Studies Department, Houghton College; former missionary in Colombia and Puerto Rico. A Light to the Nations could be called A Light to the Church. Michael Goheen compellingly demonstrates […]
A Future for the Latino Church: Models for Multilingual, Multigenerational Hispanic Congregations
by Daniel A. Rodriguez IVP Academic, P.O. Box 1400, Downers Grove, IL 60515, 200 pages, 2011, $19.00. —Reviewed by Diana E. Barrera, Southeastern Spanish District of Assemblies of God, Orlando, Florida. Transition and accommodation of two cultures are old problems dating back to Moses (who was Egyptian born and raised, but served the Hebrews) and […]