Jonathan J. Bonk
Biography
Jonathan J. Bonk has served as Executive Director of the Overseas Ministries Study Center, as a Regular Visiting Professor at Yale Divinity School, and as Editor of the International Bulletin of Missionary Research. Bonk edited Accountability in Missions (2011).
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Acts: Courageous Witness in a Hostile World
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“I am not aware of a more practical, accessible, or teachable commentary on the book of Acts. While this commentary will be of value to any mission-focused pastor or teacher in the West, it is the Majority World evangelists, church leaders, and missionaries whose ministry is carried out in daunting hostility who will find here a treasure trove of insight and encouragement.”
Preaching & Worship
“This book is a kind of kaleidoscope, illuminating surprisingly variegated forms of Christian worship through time and across cultures. With contributions by some of the most accomplished contemporary interpreters of world Christianity, Christian Worship Worldwide frequently sparkles with a luminosity that delights even as it enlightens.”
Prayer & Spiritual Formation
“Without doubt this is the best book on Christian guidance that I have ever read. The author dispenses with the well-intended guidance quackery frequently peddled among those who yearn for God’s guidance in living our puny, fleeting-like-grass-yet-spiritually-significant selves. The author’s wryly self-deprecating conversational style is coupled with experience-derived wisdom, a deep understanding of human nature, and a keen eye for pious hocus-pocus.”
God’s Power, Jesus’ Faith, and World Mission
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“An extraordinary commentary! Takes seriously the missionary author, subject matter, and original readers of Romans. Mosher shares insights from many missionaries who like Paul are practical persons. A thoroughly contemporary, delightfully practical, profoundly insightful, and at times troublingly challenging work. This commentary deserves the special attention of missionaries, pastors, Bible students, and academics alike.”
I Am a Pilgrim, a Traveler, a Stranger
History & Biography
“The story of Pliny Fisk (1792-1825), ABCFM's first missionary to the Middle East, is as salutary today as it was tragic then. Shaped by the Orientalism of the times, blinded by the presumptions of Western superiority, and constricted by the doctrinal straitjacket of his Calvinism, Fisk's social isolation was guaranteed, and his failure as an emissary of the Gospel assured. A perpetual outsider, detached and critically aloof from the religious and cultural others among whom he lived out his missionary vocation, he is a pitiful figure. His story and its lessons bear hearing in our time of nationalistic hubris fueled and ignited by ignorance. For those who have ears to hear, eyes to see, and the humility to self-examine, there is much to ponder. Hubers is to be thanked for writing a story that is surprisingly contemporary in its lessons.”
Evangelism & Missions
“Professor, University of Edinburgh This book will inspire readers by its compelling, deeply instructive, and well written content. More importantly, they will discover in it a delightfully poignant reminder that God’s people are citizens of an upside-down kingdom in which the meek inherit the earth, the poor are blessed, the humble are exalted, and the rich and powerful are sent empty away when God’s will is done in God’s way on God’s earth, as it is in heaven.”
Evangelism & Missions
“This book is quintessentially Thomas. I know of no one more aptly experienced or academically capable of writing this immensely useful historical assessment of the interstices of world missions and the ecumenical movement. This will become a standard reference on the theme.”
Evangelism & Missions
“"This book is a worthy successor to texts by Nida, Luzbetak, Mayers, Hiebert, and Lingenfelter. Good writing, clear thinking, and cutting-edge engagement with contemporary concerns such as migration, diaspora, transnationalism, urbanization, and globalization set this volume apart from its predecessors. It deserves to become the standard textbook for introductory anthropology courses in Christian colleges and seminaries.”
History & Biography
“A riveting modern-day Pilgrim's Progress by a leading world Christian intellectual — eloquent but not verbose, profound but not obscure, lucid but not clichéd. Rare is the memoir that engages its reader from beginning to end. Lamin Sanneh's is one of those.”
Evangelism & Missions
“Time is a light that exposes both the foolishness and the wisdom of bygone generations. This rich collection of essays testifies to the vigor, versatility, and prescience of J. H. Bavinck's thought. The essays -- some written more than seventy years ago -- are as insightful now as anything currently being written by evangelical missiologists on the interplay between Christianity and human religiosity.”
History & Biography
“While 'Ichabod' is the sad epitaph for much of Western Christianity, 'Emmanuel' is the palpable and vivid characteristic of the Church in much of Africa and Asia. For an informative and encouraging introduction to what God is doing around the world, I recommend this book. 'Like cold water to a weary soul is good news from a distant land' (Prov. 25:25 [NIV]).”
The Role of the American Board in the World
Evangelism & Missions
“Both contributors and publisher are to be thanked for this long-needed contemporary examination of the first foreign mission board founded in the United States. It provides often-neglected depth-of-field perspectives, enabling us to understand and appreciate a Western missionary movement that has been, for better or for worse, dominated by the United States for the last century. I heartily recommend this book.”
The Unexpected Christian Century
History & Biography
“This volume places us in Sunquist's debt for extending the Christian story beyond the familiar clichés, luminaries, and events of conventional Western church histories to a trajectory that includes and accounts for the fecund world of Christianity in the global South. Full of surprises, this is an astounding, fast-moving story, whose latest chapter was not and could not have been predicted by earlier generations of church historians.”
Evangelism & Missions
“John Rowell is to be thanked for tackling one of the most intractable challenges facing the post-Constantinian missionary enterprise from the West. His book is the best that I have seen on the subject of dependency. To Give or Not to Give? deserves to become required reading for church leaders and mission committees, mission policy makers and missionaries, missiologists and missionaries-in-training.”
Evangelism & Missions
“This book is vintage Hiebert, pulling together in a single volume his seminal thinking on the cultural dynamics of Christian conversion. Drawing on a lifetime of learning, thinking, and writing on the subject, this work augurs to be the standard text on worldview for years to come. The book brims with insights into the cultural and theological ‘what’ and ‘how’ of being ‘no longer conformed to this world, but transformed by the renewing of our minds.’ Written with the clarity and originality of thought that put Hiebert’s writings at the forefront of twentieth-century missiological thought and practice, this volume is an apt tribute to the life and work of its extraordinary author, who went to his eternal home on March 11, 2007.”
Theology
“The product of many years of reading, thinking and discussion, this is one of the most satisfactory comprehensive treatments of salvation ever attempted by an evangelical in the Reformed tradition. Even those--like me--who do not share in that tradition will discover in Tiessen an immensely well-informed, trustworthy and fair-minded guide through the labyrinthine maze of questions issuing from Christian understanding of and response to the Bible's teaching on salvation. Unless I am greatly mistaken, this book will serve as the benchmark reference on the subject for evangelical teachers, pastors, missionaries and students for years to come.”
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