The Church has witnessed many changes during the past century. One of the most dramatic has been the massive growth of Christianity in the non-Western world—Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, certain parts of Asia and the Pacific Islands.
Young New Yorkers greet each other with a hearty
“Whassup?”—which translated means “What’s happening in the world around you?” In Christianity Reborn, Donald Lewis has brought together an international cadre of scholars who seek to answer this question with respect to evangelical missions at the end of the twentieth century.
Missionaries and church leaders often stress power because the worldviews of the cultures where they minister are power-focused.
This concise and highly readable book brings another perspective to the growing phenomenon of house churches.
Are missionaries prayer giants or just ordinary people greatly in need of prayer?
Historians commonly view British missionaries as agents of the British Empire. Were they? What motivated these preachers of the gospel—the reign of God or the reign of Queen Victoria? This helpful collection of essays edited by Andrew Porter deals with the question of how British missionaries related to the British Empire.
John Esposito, arguably the most influential non-Muslim American scholar on Islam, at times sounds prophetic. His book The Islamic Threat: Myth or Reality? (1992) suggests Islam is a threat to the West—particularly America.
The book makes a valuable contribution by highlighting the involvement of missionaries and national Christians in the demise of colonial powers and the spread of nationalistic independence movements in Asia and Africa.
What is our primary responsibility in a world without Christ, struggling with the poverty, injustice and violence that result from sin?
Few words in the Christian lexicon of the early twenty-first century are as exhilarating as “revival.” The word causes one to think of cleansing fire, fresh wind and Spirit power that resuscitates comatose souls.
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