The Japan Christian Year-Book (Volume 24)
by Nihon Kirisutokyo Kyogikai
The Churches and Ethnic Ideology in the Rwandan Crises 1900-1994 (Regnum Studies in Mission)
by Tharcisse Gatwa
A Critical Edition of Ruths Recompence by Richard Bernard
A Critical Edition of Ruths Recompence by Richard Bernard presents Richard Bernard’s commentary on the book of Ruth, originally published in 1628, to the modern reader. Arlene McAlister’s introduction sets the work in its contemporary context and most significantly elucidates the issue of women’s conduct that arises from the biblical story and challenges Bernard and the preceding early modern Ruth commentators. The introduction details how the commentators have great difficulty in expounding Rut...
In KwaZulu-Natal Heather Reynolds and her husband Patrick have established a community care centre for orphaned and abandoned children, where children find sanctuary from abuse, poverty, and starvation. The very sick die with dignity; but for those who survive Heather provides love, security, education, hope and a future. She has set up football leagues and a touring theatre and dance troupe. Braving local indifference and facing down opposition from neighbours and gang leaders, she has attracte...
The Japan Christian Year Book (V.49 1960)
by Nihon Kirisutokyo Kyogikai
Missiology is the study of mission-doers, the persons who are active in Christianisation, with methodological attention to the dialectic of personhood. Mission, in this approach, is what a mission-doer thinks it is. Mission-doers are potential facilitators as well as potential hinderers of the cause of Jesus Christ. They emerge in particular contexts; as the contexts change they converge and diverge. New contexts for Christianisation may require new ways of doing it, which in turn may require ne...
A history of Chinese immigrants encounter with Canadian Protestant missionaries, "His Dominion" and the "Yellow Peril": Protestant Missions to Chinese Immigrants in Canada, 1859-1967 , analyzes the evangelizing activities of missionaries and the role of religion in helping Chinese immigrants affirm their ethnic identity in a climate of cultural conflict. Jiwu Wang argues that, by working toward a vision of Canada that espoused Anglo-Saxon Protestant values, missionaries inevitably reinforced pop...
The stereotype of the woman missionary has ranged from that of the longsuffering wife, characterized by the epitaph Died, given over to hospitality, to that of the spinster in her unstylish dress and wire-rimmed glasses, alone somewhere for thirty years teaching heathen children. Like all caricatures, those of the exhausted wife and frustrated old maid carry some truth: the underlying message of the sterotypes is that missionary women were perceived as marginal to the central tasks of mission. R...
With contributions from popular Bible teachers such as Tim Keller, Kevin DeYoung, and John Piper, this collection of eight biblical expositions walks readers through the Gospel of Luke, exploring Jesus's life, death, and resurrection.
Looking-Glass For Ladies: American Protestant Women And The Orient In The Nineteenth Century (P313/M
Lisa Joy Pruitt offers a new look at women's involvement in the mission movement, with a welcome focus on the often overlooked antebellum era. Most scholars have argued that the emergence of women as a dominant force in American Protestant missions in the late nineteenth-century was an outgrowth of nascent feminist activism in the various denominations. This new contribution suggests that the feminization of the later mission movement actually stemmed in large part from images of the "degraded O...
A Reconciled Community of Suffering Disciples (Bible and Theology in Africa, #17)
by Frank-Ole Thoresen
Church members among the ethnic Somali population in the Horn of Africa constitute a culturally marginalized and persecuted minority. Despite more than a hundred years of Protestant missionary efforts, the growth of the church has remained slow and protracted. The very concept of "Somali Christian" accordingly continues to constitute a contradiction of terms in the mindset of most Somalis. Moreover, the few Christian congregations that have been established have most often remained unstable and...
Mission, Communion and Relationship (American University Studies, #283)
by Peter Addai-Mensah
Mission, Communion and Relationship addresses the urgent need for the churches in Africa to positively respond to the crisis confronting the continent's young men. It calls for the church to commit itself to providing alternatives to the various crises confronting male youths in Africa (dislocation, illiteracy, streetism, unemployment, emigration, crime, imitation of foreign cultures, consumerism, drug abuse, promiscuity and HIV/AIDS). Mission, Communion and Relationship argues that communion an...
Jesus told his disciples to go to a town and to find someone who would receive them as a guest. They were encouraged to eat within the community, build friendships, make contacts and teach the gospel. In this exciting book, Andrew Francis urges us to notice the order. The disciples were to seek the welfare of others by praying for and healing them - in other words, by meeting their obvious needs. It was only then that teaching and telling about the 'reign of God' would begin. This was Jesus' str...