Book Reviews

This book is for international missionaries. Or, is it? More correctly, this book is for every Christian who anticipates witnessing across cultural lines.

“We have had the Bible in our language, but we still couldn’t understand what it meant.” That’s what Hill’s main assistant said to her when she was conducting the research for this book. Why can’t Bibles, even ones that are translated well, be understood? And what can be done about it?

Five years in the making, involving sixty-nine African biblical scholars, the first one-volume Bible commentary written by Africans in Africa for African churches has been published.

In this second volume of a proposed three volume set on Christianity in Asia, Samuel Moffett, professor emeritus of ecumenics and mission at Princeton Theological Seminary, again succeeds in providing a landmark history of Christianity on the continent of Christianity’s birth.

Kaleidoscopic changes loom over global Christian missionary activity at the beginning of this new century. Established patterns of knowing and doing missions seem to erode daily while new and shifting patterns are shaping the scenarios designed to show the way forward.

As one whose missionary ministry has spanned the entire second half of the twentieth century, Dr. David Hesselgrave has been an active and reflective practitioner in world evangelism during an amazing period of expansion in the world Christian movement.

This book is the definitive work for contemporary tentmaking. Patrick Lai has composed a very extensive and highly-practical resource birthed from many years of personal experience and interviews from over 450 tentmakers serving in the 10/40 Window.

How many of us have attempted to teach modern management techniques in another culture only to find nationals invariably returning to their accustomed norms and practices?

The word “martyr” may evoke thoughts of those who died centuries ago. We do not tend to think of those who were fellow students or members of our graduating class. Dr. Newell’s book provides twenty-one accounts of Moody Bible Institute alumni who paid the ultimate price for acting in obedience to the missionary call.

What role should theological education take with church planting movements? To answer this important question, Paul Gupta presents a case study based on his experiences in India as president and director of Hindustan Bible Institute (HBI).