Missions Missionary Work category: 1022 books
Brand New Church
The Church and the postmodern condition
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
Brand New Church? aims to make sense of what 'postmodern' actually looks and feels like in real life, and to ask what this means for the church. Over the past few years, Graeme Fancourt has travelled around the UK and USA consulting with a wide range of church leaders, including Sue Wallace, who founded...
Women of Faith
The Chicago Sisters of Mercy and the Evolution of a Religious Community
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
When the Sisters of Mercy lost their foundress Sister Catherine McAuley in 1841, stories of Mother Catherine passed from one generation of sisters to the next. McAuley’s Rule and Constitutions along with her spiritual writings and correspondence communicated the Mercys’ founding charism. Each...
Can White People Be Saved?
Triangulating Race, Theology, and Mission
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
White normativity as a way of being in the world has been parasitically joined to Christianity, and this is the ground of many of our problems today. Written by a world-class roster of scholars, this volume develops language to describe the current realities of race and racism, challenging evangelical...
Joyful Witness in the Muslim World (Mission in Global Community)
Sharing the Gospel in Everyday Encounters
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
This up-to-date textbook features global perspectives on current Christian engagement with Islam, equipping readers for mission among Muslims. Evelyne Reisacher, who has worked extensively with Muslims in Europe, helps readers move from fear to joy as they share the gospel with Muslims. Reisacher...
Cultural Insights for Christian Leaders (Mission in Global Community)
New Directions for Organizations Serving God's Mission
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
This volume helps leaders and leaders-in-training become students of culture who can then contextualize what they learn for their own organizational settings. Douglas McConnell, a respected leader in the worlds of missiology and higher education, enables readers to understand intercultural dynamics...
Mission after Pentecost (Mission in Global Community)
The Witness of the Spirit from Genesis to Revelation
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2019
Bringing Pentecostal theology into the Bible and mission conversation, Amos Yong identifies the role of the divine spirit in God's mission to redeem the world. As he works through the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, Yong emphasizes the global missiological imperative: "People of all nations...
La force de la vocation
La vie consacrée aujourd'hui
Language: French
Release Date: May 24, 2019
« Regarder le passé avec reconnaissance, vivre le présent avec passion, embrasser l’avenir avec espérance. », tel est le fil conducteur de ce livre-entretien.
Dans un dialogue simple et spontané, le Pape aborde les grands thèmes et les défis qui touchent à la vie consacrée dans...
La forza della vocazione
La vita consacrata oggi. Conversazione con Fernando Prado
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 9, 2019
«Penso a quei preti, a quelle suore, a quei fratelli che lavorano nelle periferie o nel centro delle città. A quelle persone consacrate che non hanno pretese, che non fanno rumore, ma che lavorano senza preoccuparsi. A coloro che fanno la teologia della vita consacrata vivendola, pregandola. Sono...
First Generation
Stories of Rebels and Pioneers
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
First Generation is about a movement. Some of us have experienced what we might call a revival, but revivals are not movements. Revivals happen when we return to something we have lost, but movements are not a return to anything—they are fresh beginnings.
In the church true revivals are rare,...
Negotiating Palestinian Womanhood
Encounters between Palestinian Women and American Missionaries, 1880s–1940s
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Negotiating Palestinian Womanhood: Encounters between Palestinian Women and American Missionaries, 1880s–1940s is the first analytical study to examine the American Quaker educational enterprise in Palestine since its establishment in the late nineteenth century during the Ottoman rule and into...
Mission At and From the Margins
Patterns, Protagonists and Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Mission At and From the Margins: Patterns, Protagonists and Perspective revisits the ‘hi-stories’ of Mission from the ‘bottom up’ paying critical attention to people, perspectives and patterns that have often been elided in the construction of mission history. Focusing on the mission story...
Inequality, Corruption and the Church
Challenges & Opportunities in the Global Church
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Why are economic inequalities greatest in the southern countries where most people are Christians? This book teases out the influences that have created this situation, and concludes that Christians could help reduce economic inequalities by opposing corruption. Interviews in the Philippines, Kenya,...
Effective Discipling in Muslim Communities
Scripture, History and Seasoned Practices
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
Muslims who come to Christ face momentous spiritual, psychological and social obstacles that drive many to abandon their faith. Often conversion and discipleship are framed by individualistic Western models that do not acknowledge the communal cultural forces that constrain and shape new believers....
by Michael Pears, Paul Cloke
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
The second book in the series focuses on participation and practice, and
discusses a range of ways in which Kingdom-centred mission can be
embedded in the actually existing realms of activity and need in marginal
places. The book explores five different realms of practice, each presenting
opportunities...