Andrew F. Walls
A History of Christianity in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, 1450-1990
History & Biography
“This excellent collection of documents with expert commentaries will be a boon to teachers and students of church history and to many others. There is nothing else quite like it.”
Evangelism & Missions
“Livingston has performed an immense service by taking us behind Transforming Mission and showing where it came from: the agonies of apartheid South Africa, the unhappy warfare of theological camps labeled 'ecumenical' and 'evangelical,' the quest for a concrete expression of the church as it is depicted in the Scriptures, and from faithful discipleship while engaging with church and society as they are. This book . . . is a considerable achievement.”
History & Biography
“This is a fascinating series of essays, full of information and rich in suggestion. It is splendidly diverse. . . . We watch the traffic on the great highways of the gospel, some of it moving off to bye-paths or caught in dead ends, not forgetting the occasional crash. This is not a book just for Baptists; it is a thought-provoking study of Christ's church militant here on earth.”
Between the Beginning and the End
Theology
“Immense in scope and range, rich in suggestion and allusion, this book by J. H. Bavinck reflects his profound understanding of Scripture and history. It is splendid that we now have this thought-provoking work available in English.”
Christian Identity and Dalit Religion in Hindu India, 1868-1947
History & Biography
“This is a rich book, learned, empathetic, nuanced, and, despite the erudition, readable into the bargain. It unpicks complicated stories, giving different perceptions of the event their due weight, and approaches complex entities with insight. As a study of the renovation of tradition it illuminates not only the remarkable Satnami history but the whole process of interaction as Christianity crosses cultural frontiers.”
Christianity at the Religious Roundtable
World Religions
“A vigorous, clearly-written invitation to committed Christians to enter the thought-worlds of other people. With an approach interestingly modeled on Luther's Table Talk, Tennent brings great but frequently neglected experimental thinkers of the past, such as Brahmabandhav Upadhyay and A. G. Hogg, to a roundtable discussion on issues very much up-to-date.”
Church Leadership & Ministry
“This is an important book. With the increasing significance of Africa within contemporary Christianity, new and urgent theological issues are arising for pastoral practice as African understandings of the spirit world interact with the biblical materials and traditional Christian practice. Acolatse is beginning a much-needed conversation between African and Western theologians, with huge pastoral implications.”
Evangelism & Missions
Foreword
“This is a book that goes to the heart of the relationship of church and mission among Protestant Christians. Newbigin has attracted much attention in recent years and will attract more, but there is, to my knowledge, no equivalent of this work currently available. It is much needed.”
History & Biography
“Everyone has heard of the evangelical revival of the eighteenth century, and historians have long discussed its long-term effects on Britain and North America. That there was an analogous movement in the twentieth century and that its effects are now shaping contemporary Christianity is less widely known. The manifestations occurred in different parts of Asia, Africa and Latin America, and helped to produce some of the Christian powerhouses of today. Dr. Shaw has done a great service by providing this engaging and thought-provoking introduction to the most recent phase of Christian history. It deserves a wide readership.”
Henry Venn—Missionary Statesman
History & Biography
“Henry Venn is perennially up-to-date. Anyone reading him who is concerned with today's Church in today's world will find echoes ringing all the time. It is good to have a comprehensive presentation of him; doubly valuable when it is from one who, like Dr. Shenk, is both a scholar and a missionary administrator himself.”
Kwame Bediako and African Christian Scholarship
History & Biography
“As this book abundantly illustrates, the era of decolonization that followed World War II saw European empires dismantled, and a host of new nations, including Ghana, emerging. This opened a chapter of Christian history that has still to be explored and documented. Dr. Fretheim makes a valuable contribution to that end, focusing on a theme crucial to the process of decolonization: the religious scene in Africa, past and present, and how Africans—Christian and otherwise—approached it. It is an absorbing study, with much upon which to reflect. The life and work of one such seminal figure, Kwame Bediako, appears in Dr. Fretheim’s account as a lens through which many of the cultural, intellectual, religious, and theological currents pass on to her screen. There is much worth pondering in this story, and we are in debt to Dr. Fretheim for making it available.”
Mary Slessor—Everybody's Mother
History & Biography
“Mary Slessor is one of the few missionaries to have become a legend in their lifetime and leave an impression on the lives of a generation after it. . . . This is undoubtedly the best biography of Slessor so far produced. . . . It presents a woman who, without pretensions to gentility or to much education, moved the bounds, not only of what was acceptable for women, but of what was conceivable.”
Evangelism & Missions
“David Shank’s writings are rich and original, always stimulating and sometimes prophetic, but far too little known. This splendid collection, beautifully presented and interpreted, thus comes as a boon and a blessing.”
The Elusive Quest of the Spiritual Malcontent
History & Biography
“A gem of a book. With learning, sympathy, and lightness of touch, it brings before us a succession of earnest people from different religious traditions and backgrounds who sought to be radically Christian in the circumstances of their own time, and introduces us to the underside of some of the major modern Christian movements of renewal. These essays constitute a serious contribution to Western Church history in the nineteenth century.”
Evangelism & Missions
“This is a remarkable book, vast in scope and rich in content. It offers a developed model of the interaction of the general and the particular. On the one hand, it is a comprehensive study of the great encyclopedic mission theologian of the twentieth century, David Bosch; on the other, a sensitive interpretation of Ethiopian Christianity, past and present, in both its Orthodox and Protestant-Evangelical expressions, and of what Bosch would have called their paradigm shifts. These two themes are kept in constant and illuminating dialogue, and their wide relevance for today's worldwide church is made evident. A book not to be missed.”
The Missionary Letters of Vincent Donovan
Evangelism & Missions
“The 1950s, when Vincent Donovan began his missionary service, marked the onset of the old age of the missionary movement from the West, and ushered in a new age for the Church. Donovan's book Christianity Rediscovered was one of the seminal works from that era, opening the issues of Gospel and Culture more vividly, perhaps, than any missionary testament had previously done. These letters to family, friends, supporters, and colleagues show the evolution of Donovan's thought; we see the ideas in the book being hammered out in daily personal encounters. The collection forms a splendid commentary on a splendid text and provides a compelling record of the period; more, it leads the reader not only the meaning of mission but into the meaning of the Incarnation itself.”
NOTE: Only includes books currently in our catalog; not necessarily a complete list.
The Missionary Movement from the West
Evangelism & Missions
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