David Emmanuel Singh

Christians and Christianity in India Today

Evangelism & Missions

“Christians and Christianity in India Today highlights many original reflections and offers a credible case for Christianity in India being a microcosm of World Christianity. The authors' sketches of the regionally varied forms of Christianity throughout history, expositions of its theology in context, and reconstructions of the missional challenges in India's dynamic milieu all richly demonstrate Indian Christianity's prophetic presence within World Christianity today.”

Contextualization of Sufi Spirituality in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century China

World Religions

“Scholars have previously focused on the innovative nature of Islamic contextualization in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century China. Lee's work goes further, firstly, by focusing on (1) a significant Muslim from the network of scholars in this period, Liu Zhi; (2) his uniquely indigenized use of the Akbarian tradition both for teaching and apologetics; secondly, by combining the use of (1) his own translations with the existing ones; (2) selected Western sources with the previously unknown Chinese secondary sources.”

Jesus in Muslim-Christian Conversation

World Religions

Foreword

(wrote the foreword)

Mission on the Move

Evangelism & Missions

“It is by no means an easy task to provide a focused snapshot of the complex reality of Christian mission involving people on the move. This book succeeds in achieving it with South Asians in focus. The selection of contributors and the themes of transition, evangelism, counselling, and community are embedded within refreshingly new narratives of migration, with solidly constructed biblical/missiological reflections on a ‘moving God’ in his ‘moving world.’ I unreservedly recommend this collaborative work to scholars and missionaries investigating the particular role of Christian migration in reshaping world Christianity.”

Pathways to Peacebuilding

Theology

“Responses of Christians in coercive polities are often painfully emotional. It is especially noteworthy, therefore, when exceptions appear proposing peace. This is one such work by a Nigerian author. It draws readers’ attention to ideas native to the diverse ethnolinguistic context of Nigeria and applies them to christological pathways toward peace building. Its value is not just in contributing to the theoretical domain of theology but also to Christian practice and witness in violent contexts.”

Transformational Frontiers

Evangelism & Missions

“Christian development ministry has often lacked full awareness of fieldworkers’ agency in delivering impact. Jaisankar brilliantly bridges this gap through highlighting their essential role as actors with agency and as witnesses to Christ in communities they serve. This is not the work of an armchair specialist; it arises from Jaisankar’s passion for transformational development and his own presence in communities and the fieldworkers whom he places on the pedestal they deserve. It is as much a critique of the impersonal systems as of the institutions that create them. His argument is not that quantifiable productivity is insignificant but rather that this does not have priority over the real stories of fieldworkers’ incarnational presence in communities.”