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Missiology—Good Medicine and a Fourth Leg

admin July 1, 2007

I have sometimes joked that like a bowl of fruit, a missiologist is a missionary that has gone bad from spending too much time sitting around tables.

Globalizing Theology: Belief and Practice in an Era of World Christianity

admin July 1, 2007

Mosaic books are always a challenge to read and review, unless they have clear integrators—convergence factors for diverse essays. Globalizing Theology reveals these elements as it grapples with the issues of globalizing theology (faces of contextualization) in a new global arena.

Fruit Salad Anyone?

admin July 1, 2007

The problem with speaking about “mission” and “service” in the same breath is like the proverbial query of comparing apples and oranges.

Innovation in Mission: Insights into Practical Innovations Creating Kingdom Impact

admin July 1, 2007

Editors Jim Reapsome and Jon Hirst and eleven authors provide twentieth and twenty-first century examples of innovation in world mission.

Training Leaders: A Functioning Model for Missionaries

admin July 1, 2007

An example of how Church Based Training is being used in Austria, Germany and Switzerland to train local leaders.

The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible’s Grand Narrative

admin July 1, 2007

Christopher Wright’s The Mission of God unpacks a much more audacious proposal: that mission is the basis of the entire Bible.

Going the Distance: Adapting Full-time Residential Curricula into Distance Format

admin July 1, 2007

How Namibia Evangelical Theological Seminary molded its residential programs and curricula into distance format.

Picturing Christian Witness: New Testament Images of Disciples in Mission

admin July 1, 2007

Stanley Skreslet, professor of mission at Union Theological Seminary in Richmond, Virginia, argues in this book that the study of mission should be approached in terms of “images” that are based on the New Testament accounts.