Darrell Whiteman
Biography
Darrell Whiteman earned a B.A. from Seattle Pacific University and a Ph.D. in anthropology from Southern Illinois University. Whiteman has served as Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the E. Stanley Jones School of World Mission and Evangelism, Asbury Theological Seminary, and as editor of Missiology. Whiteman wrote the foreword to My Mighty Hand (2024).
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African Proverbs Reveal Christianity in Culture
Evangelism & Missions
“Drawing on solid theoretical foundations in anthropology, epistemology, and communications, Jay Moon takes us on an exciting journey into the world of African proverbs to demonstrate how to engage Scripture with culture. Written as a riveting story with missiological reflection, this is the practical guide to doing contextualization we've been waiting for. The implications of his application of contextualization go well beyond Africa and so this book is a 'must read' for any serious student of contextualization and missiology.”
World Religions
“Do Hindus have to deny their birth identity in order to affirm their second birth identity as devotees of Christ? To wade into this thorny missiological briar patch, Vinod John conducted anthropological and ethnographic research in the Hindu stronghold of Varanasi, unearthing the emic perspective of what it means to be a Hindu devotee of Christ.”
Bridging the Gap, Breaching Barriers
History & Biography
“Bridging the Gap, Breaching Barriers is a significant contribution to mission historiography, both in substance and method. Cloutier has plumbed the depths of private documents, letters, and diaries to tell the story of people of African descent and women, whose substantial and often heroic contributions to the life of the mission were eclipsed, if not hidden by official mission documents and reports. In this amazing story I felt like a detective sleuth discovering remarkable people in mission who had been completely forgotten if not removed from the official mission record.”
Theology
“The challenge before the 'New Christianity' emerging in the Global South is planting the gospel deeply within the rich indigenous soils of various cultures while engaging in conversations with older expressions of Christianity around the world. There are many books crying for the church to become more contextualized and less Western, but very few books that demonstrate how to use contextual methods to accomplish that task, to think theologically and act missiologically in different cultural contexts. Far from advocating catchy slogans and trendy techniques to create contextualized expressions of Christianity, Paul Matheny underscores the importance of relying on Scripture and engaging ecumenically in demonstrating the universal nature of Christianity that connects Followers of Jesus with each other across space and time while living out their faith in particular local settings. We've been waiting a long time for a book like this and Matheny brilliantly delivers.”
Contextual Theology for the Twenty-First Century
Theology
“Christians in the twenty-first-century must no longer engage in mission or do theology that is not faithful to Christ and relevant to their context. Steve Bevans's illuminating essays accompanied by other voices should be heard as important steps as we join God's missional journey in this century. With some critique of the past and hope for the future we are reminded that contextual theology has never been more important for our understanding and practice of mission.”
Christian Living
“In this highly readable and engaging text, Moreau reminds us that contextualization, despite the controversies controversies that surround it, has always been part and parcel of Christian theology and life, and is therefore here to stay. So we should better understand it and discover tools to help us better practice it. Moreau answers the question of how people understand, conceptualize, and live out their faith in light of the values of their society and context. His approach is indeed holistic, going well beyond just contextualizing theology and worship, as he considers seven different dimensions of contextualization. With a judicious amount of theories, illustrations, case studies, biblical examples, questions for reflection, and implications for contextualization, Contextualizing the Faith is comprehensive without being encyclopedic. Missiologists and missionaries have been waiting a long time for a book like this, and Moreau has filled that gap exceedingly well, giving us a book with a global perspective that will likely become a classic text in this crucial area of understanding and living out our faith as followers of Jesus.”
Effective Intercultural Evangelism
Evangelism & Missions
“In this wonderfully practical book based on solid scholarship and contemporary research and drawing on their personal crosscultural evangelism experiences, Moon and Simon identify intercultural evangelism as having meaningful conversations with others about what God is already doing in their life. Believing that God interacts with people in terms of their worldviews, a first step is to identify the worldview in which the person is embedded. Four major overarching worldviews—guilt/justice, shame/honor, fear/power, and indifference/belonging—are lavishly illustrated with Scriptural antecedents. We have needed this book for a long time. It takes seriously the evangelism mandate and the cultural context in which it must take place in order to be effective. Bravo!”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“This is not an easy book, and it’s not meant to be. Thrailkill, in his methodical but accessible style, bridges the gap between scholarship and the life of the church, and reminds us that discipleship is costly. Following Jesus explores fifty-one ‘thought units’ in Luke’s Gospel that are pregnant with insights for being a disciple of Jesus and developing disciple makers. This is a gold mine for scholars and a practical lifesaver for those making disciples of Jesus.”
Evangelism & Missions
“Kevin Hovey has done the missiological world a great service by introducing the present generation of missiologists and mission practitioners to the fascinating and complex life of Australian missiological anthropologist, Alan Tippett. Plumbing the vast corpus of Tippett’s anthropological, missiological, and ethnohistorical research and writing, Hovey walks the reader through a captivating journey of Tippett’s early life and missionary experience in Fiji, and demonstrates how this contributed to insightful and creative missiological theories that were ground-breaking in his day and relevant to World Christianity today.”
How Western Christianity Got It Wrong
Theology
“In this radical, provocative, and refreshingly honest critique, Randy Woodley pulls back the curtain of two thousand years of Christianity and lets us reassess the drama through non-Western, Native American eyes. Western theologians may feel uncomfortable with some of Woodley's assessment of traditional disembodied theological doctrines; anthropologists, less so. By exposing how our worldview shapes and interprets reality, it becomes clear that the cliché 'The Bible says what it means, and means what it says' is not true, if it ever was. After exposing the many problems with Western Christianity, Woodley charts a path forward, focusing more on community-centered transformation than on individualism, restoring wholeness, challenging unjust systems, and mending broken relationships. With the rise of Christian nationalism today, we need this book now more than ever, despite how uncomfortable it may make some of us feel.”
Christian Living
“The cry for better discipleship methods is heard around the globe but most methods take a fill-in-the-blank approach, focused on acquiring more information, not the deep penetrating formation of disciples of Jesus that promotes personal and community transformation. Now Jay Moon in Intercultural Discipleship has charted a comprehensive and creative way forward like no other book in the field. Missiologically informed, cross-culturally relevant, and biblically faithful, this book draws on genres such as proverbs, drama, music, dance, rituals and ceremonies, and oral arts, together with riveting case studies to open the right side of our brains for disciple-makers around the world. I believe Intercultural Discipleship will soon become a classic text in the discipleship literature.”
Intercultural Theology, Volume Two
Evangelism & Missions
“In this comprehensive and magisterial study of theologies of mission, developed down through history and a century of twelve international world mission conferences, across the ecumenical and evangelical spectrum, and paying close attention to the various cultural and social contexts in which theologies of mission emerge, Wrogemann has made an immense contribution to missiology and mission studies. His attention to detail in the different theologies of mission, while at the same time enabling the reader to understand the breadth and complexities of theologies of mission, is a monumental achievement that Wrogemann does brilliantly. This second volume of Intercultural Theology will surely become a classic text and be of immense value to both academics and practitioners of mission.”
Songs of Ethiopia’s Tesfaye Gabbiso
Arts & Literature
“Writing and researching from a posture of humility, and with nearly 40 years of cross-cultural ministry in Ethiopia, Lila Balisky has written a superb study of the life narrative and songs of Ethiopian singer, composer, and church leader Tesfaye Gabbiso . . . Vividly aware of the challenge of translating meaning from one language and medium to another, Balisky takes the necessary precautions and gets it right. She has given us a wonderful study that celebrates both musical creativity and deep indigenous worship.”
Evangelism & Missions
“"In an irenic spirit, Rynkiewich chides anthropologists, missiologists, and missionaries for not adequately coming to grips with the enormous changes our world has undergone in the past fifty years. We therefore ignore at our peril these urbanizing and globalizing dynamics, and may by default promote a missiological practice or follow an anthropological theory that is no longer useful or even true in today's world. In a masterful way, Rynkiewich, drawing on his anthropological research and mission experience in the South Pacific, brings together anthropology and missiology and shows us how both can inform each other, and move us forward through the murky waters of our increasingly postmodern era.”
Evangelism & Missions
“Combining twelve brilliant essays, Yong demonstrates the value of a pneumatological approach to mission in the world. His erudite scholarship is tempered with practical on-the-ground application, making this both a stimulating missiological treatise and a practical handbook for joining God's mission in a globalizing world of cultural complexity and religious pluralism. My anthropological heart was strangely warmed by Yong's cross-cultural sensitivity and understanding of mission in a pluralistic world.”
Evangelism & Missions
“The State of Missiology Today captures the presentations given on the fiftieth anniversary of Fuller Seminary's School of Intercultural Studies. Both well-known and emerging missiologists from around the world and across ecclesiastical communities met to honor and critique the past and anticipate the future of innovations in global mission. Beginning with Charles Van Engen's introduction, noting ten missiological innovations that have been connected to Fuller, and ending with Scott Sunquist's eight trends in mission to guide us into the future, the chapters in between are loaded with deep insights, relevant perspectives, and practical applications. Bravo! for a great book that will surely become a lasting landmark in missiology.”
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