Other Books Received
Christie, Vance. 2013. Adoniram Judson: Devoted for Life. Ross-shire: Christian Focus Publications.
Why Cities Matter: To God, the Culture, and the Church
by Stephen T. Um and Justin Buzzard Crossway Publishers, 1300 Crescent Street, Wheaton, IL 60187, 176 pages, 2013, $15.99. —Reviewed by Kevin Book-Satterlee, Latin America Mission, Mexico City. It is difficult to dispute the importance of cities now that more than fifty percent of the world’s population lives in urban areas. Stephen Um and Justin […]
Worship and Mission for the Global Church AND Creating Local Arts Together
Worship and Mission for the Global Church: An Ethnodoxlogy Handbook
By James Krabill, Frank Fortunato, Robin P. Harris, and Brian Schrag, eds. William Carey Library, 1605 E. Elizabeth St. Pasadena, CA 91104, 580 pages, 2013, $37.49.
The Ways of the People: A Reader in Missionary Anthropology
by Alan R. Tippett, ed. Doug Priest, series ed. William Carey Library, 1605 East Elizabeth St., Pasadena, CA 91104, 686 pages, 2013, $39.99. —Reviewed by David H. Greenlee, international ministry services coordinator, Operation Mobilization, Wallisellen, Switzerland. Alan R. Tippett (1911–1988) was, in Charles Kraft’s words, “the deepest and broadest missiologist of our time.” He was […]
Paul’s Missionary Methods: In His Time and Ours
by Robert L. Plummer and John Mark Terry, eds. IVP Academic, P.O. Box 1400, Downers Grove, IL, 60515-1426, 253 pages, 2012, $22.00. —Reviewed by David R. Dunaetz, former church planter in France; assistant professor of psychology, Azusa Pacific University. To demonstrate the relevance of Roland Allen’s classic Missionary Methods: Saint Paul’s or Ours? published a […]
Green Shoots Out of Dry Ground
by John P. Bowen Wipf & Stock, 199 W.8th Ave., Suite 3 Eugene Oregon, 97401, 283 pages, 2013, $34.00. —Reviewed by Willem Fietje, president of Associated Gospel Churches of Canada, Burlington, Ontario. Anyone engaged in Christian ministries in Canada today knows that our nation has experienced a major cultural shift. As perhaps the most secularized […]
Foundations for Mission
by Emma Wild-Wood and Peniel Rajkumar, eds. Regnum Books International, St. Philip and St James Church, Woodstock Road, Oxford, UK, 0X2 6HR. 309 pages, 2013, £30.99. —Reviewed by Tim Baldwin, EDS doctoral student, Trinity International University. What foundations, if any, are necessary for Christian engagement in an increasingly globalized, postmodern world? The editors of Foundations […]
The Evangelization of the World: A History of Christian Mission
by Jacques A. Blocher and Jacques Blandenier, translated by Michael Park. William Carey Library, 1605 E. Elizabeth Street, Pasadena, CA 91104, 754 pages, 2013, $49.95. —Reviewed by Ed Smither, associate professor of intercultural studies at Columbia International University. Through the capable work of translator Michael Parker, English-speaking students of mission history now possess this thorough, […]
Developing Indigenous Leaders: Lessons in Missions for Buddhist Asia
by Paul H. De Neui, ed. William Carey Library, 1605 E. Elizabeth Street, Pasadena, CA 91104, 229 pages, 2013, $17.99. —Reviewed by Michael Lee, an ordained minister, and PhD candidate (ICS) and teaching fellow at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. Discussions on contextualization, partnership, and local empowerment are well-worn paths in contemporary missiological discourse. However, in […]
Contemporary Pentecostal Christianity: Interpretations from an African Context
by J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu Wipf & Stock Publishers, 199 West 8th Avenue, Suite 3, Eugene, OR, 97401, pp. 232, 2013, $26.00. —Reviewed by Edwin Zehner, chair of PhD Program in Asian Studies at Walailak University. The spread of Christianity in Africa has been accompanied by the spread of ministry styles emphasizing an expectation of supernatural […]