Andrew F. Walls

Theology in Missionary Perspective

Evangelism & Missions

“This book provides a splendid introduction to the work of a Christian giant who identified major issues for the Christian faith in the modern world. . . . The nature and purpose of the church, the relation of Christian faith to other faiths, the Christian encounter with post-Christian Western culture, were all explored by Newbigin with acuity and integrity, and are interpreted here in a sensitive and stimulating way.”

Whose Religion Is Christianity?

Evangelism & Missions

“The astonishing religious changes of the twentieth century have produced a post-Christian West and a post-Western Christianity. Historical and cultural factors often prevent those who live in the post-Christian West from seeing the true face of world Christianity. This intriguing little book disperses these fogs to reveal the new contours of Christianity in the world. The argument moves at a cracking pace, and Lamin Sanneh characteristically provides plenty of supporting information in a highly readable form and with the freshness of perspective we expect from him. A most valuable statement of the place and nature of Christianity in the world.”

William Ewart Gladstone

History & Biography

“An absorbing study in faith and politics, in the relationship of personal conviction to public activity. Gladstone's career, unusual alike in its duration and attainments — and informed by a questing faith, an impressive intelligence, and prodigious activity — is an excellent working model for such a study; and it is hard to think that anyone could have carried it out better than David Bebbington has done. Sympathetic but searching, comprehensive but succinct, his book consistently sustains interest, engages thought, and provokes reflection.”

Wolaitta Evangelists

Evangelism & Missions

“A work of outstanding importance. In the Christian history of Africa, most Africans have always heard the Christian gospel from other Africans, but the nature of the surviving sources has inevitably led to concentration on the Western missionaries' part of the story. This study has used hitherto untapped oral sources, as well as archival ones, to uncover the crucial work of indigenous evangelists in the movement towards Christianity in southern Ethiopia in the mid-twentieth century. It also describes the indigenous social and religious revolution that prepared the way for Christianity. Dr. Balisky's work gives depth and perspective to the existing published accounts of this period and place and gives hints for what might be done elsewhere.”

Word Made Global

Evangelism & Missions

Foreword

(wrote the foreword)