This book re-visits the principles and practices of mission and re-visions the Christian mission to account for and (en)counter "context matters" in the age of empire. The (en)countered "contexts" include transatlantic slavery and Trumpire, evangelical and refugee camps, conflict zones in Afghanistan and Cambodia, Ma'ohi Nui, and more.
_This is a pioneering work on the ethnopsychology of African healing spaces and its influence on contemporary sacred geography. Since African Christianity is the "new global face" of World Christianity and the "Next Christendom," the relationship of African Christianity and the therapeutic background of African healing shrines is needed. _
_While forgiveness and politics are often regarded as unrelated, this work explores the deep, intrinsic relation between them. Through a discussion of the conflicts in Northern Ireland and Nagaland, it studies biblical foundations of forgiveness, and the practices of politics, to argue they are undergirded and sustained by forgiveness. _
The volume studies the meaning of secularization in sub-Saharan Africa and among the African diaspora. The first part focuses on Africa's cultural and religious traditions. The second part study secularization in contemporary Africa. The final section explores what the various secularization expressions mean for Christian discipleship in Africa. _
_In Africa, Pentecostalism has become the representative face of Christianity with even historic mission denominations 'pentecostalising' their otherwise formal liturgical structures. This work interprets key theological and missiological themes in Ghanaian Pentecostalism by using material from experiences of the movement itself. _
While the Asian church has begun to reach out to migrants, this concern for others lacks robust theological foundations. The author adapts their previous work and uses otherness and liminality as a lens to examine the scripture to better understand God's heart for migrants and the responsibility of His people towards them.
Asians make up the largest and most dispersed people of the world, and Christians make up a sizable proportion of this demographic. Asian Christians are more likely to emigrate, and many have continued to embrace Christian faith at their diasporic places of settlement. They are quick to establish distinctively Asian churches all over the world and ......
Bonhoeffer and Lutheran Ecclesiology after Christendom
In this book, Theodore J. Hopkins utilizes the work of Dietrich Bonhoeffer to navigate the relationship between the church and the world in the emerging post-Christian context. Following Bonhoeffer's Christology, Hopkins situates the church within the story of Jesus to be formed by him for his mission of witness and service in the world.
How the Good News Makes Sense of Discipleship, Church, Mission, and Ever
Many congregations and their leaders are discouraged about the future of the church. John Bowen's conviction is that the solution is to be found not in new programs or strategies but in a recovery of theological vision--that of Jesus and his gospel, which transforms every aspect of life. This vision restores hope in the only way realistically ......
