Christian Churches and the Global AIDS CrisisMore than twenty years into the global AIDS pandemic, the efforts of Christian congregations and denominations have been less than minimal. This book is aimed to awaken Christian compassion in the coming years to this fathomless tragedy. The worst health crisis in the world in 700 years, global ......
Evangelical Christian Women offers a look at conservative women who challenge gender norms within their religious traditions, the fallout they experience as part of the ensuing conflict, and the significance of the conflict over gender for the development and character of culture.
In this volume of the New Church's Teaching Series, Titus Presler offers a fresh vision of mission in the multicultural environment of a global community.
This edition of Holmes' finest work offers a distinctively Anglican theology of mission that does not trivialize Christianity, but rather upholds the power of the gospel to convert, challenge, and transform. The study guide included in this edition follows the book's eleven chapters. Holmes draws on the participants' experiences of evangelism and ......
Social movements inspired by powerful ideologies continue to define global and national politics, but existing social movement theories either ignore or discredit this influence. By focusing on the temperance movement and the politics of abortion, Soper compares and contrasts the political/evangelical structures of the the U.S. and Great Britian.
This volume explores the manner in which Western missionary Christianity has been shaped through contact with indigenous peoples. The conversion of the local population ususally resulted in a religion and culture that was a mixture of orthodox Christianity and indigenous customs.
Aware that pastors and church members need a new vision for evangelism in small towns and rural areas, Ruffcorn presents lively suggestions and new understandings gleaned from his workshops on rural evangelism and his own experience. He emphasizes the need for congregations to dwell on both the inward and outward aspects of nurturing their own ......
George Tinker's fascinating probe into U.S. mission history pierces the romantic veil of most history writing and shows how four of the most noted Christian missionariesmen of the highest moral character, the best of intentions, and sincere commitment to the gospelconfused gospel values and European cultural values, often with lethal results.
