Jonathan Y. Tan

A Gospel for Workers

History & Biography

“A Gospel for Workers breaks new ground in the study of world Christianity and mission studies generally, and in urban and industrial mission and the origins and growth of Minjung theology in South Korea specifically. It is an essential reading for anyone who is interested in the emergence, development, and growth of Minjung theology in South Korea under the umbrella of the Yeongdeungpo Urban Industrial Mission, as well as the important role played by Cho Chi Song, who was not only a pastor and urban missioner, but an important pioneer of Minjung theology, a tireless advocate for the workers and the subaltern urban poor in Korea's period of rapid industrialization, and a key leader for the Yeongdeungpo Urban Industrial Mission.”

Insider Jesus

Evangelism & Missions

“As the growth in emergent insider movements continues unabated across the globe, missiologists have begun to grapple with the theological and missiological implications of these movements for global Christianity. What does it mean for subaltern communities to embrace Jesus and his gospel while remaining institutionally rooted within their own religious communities? Drawing upon biblical, theological, and ethnographic resources, William A. Dyrness's Insider Jesus offers a comprehensive, critical, and constructive theological response to the challenges arising from the continuing growth of emergent insider movements across the globe. This response truly embraces the plurality of hybridized, boundary-crossing, and transreligious ways in which believers have chosen to follow Jesus while maintaining existing social ties, cultural identities, and religious belongings. As the culmination and crowning achievement of Dyrness's lifelong journey as a missioner and missiologist across Asia, Africa, and Latin America, this compelling and indispensable book is destined to be a seminal resource for missiologists and missioners that is biblically sound and theologically rigorous, yet clear and engaging for nonspecialist readers. I have no hesitation in recommending this as essential reading for scholars and students of Christian mission and global evangelism alike.”

Seeking Church

Evangelism & Missions

“How should we understand the many diverse, emergent expressions of church across the globe today? What is the relationship between these emergent expressions of church and the vision of God's kingdom? Writing from their own deep missional engagements in Asia and the conviction of their lifelong-missiological reflections, Darren T. Duerksen and William A. Dyrness make the case for a renewed vision, critical theology, and constructive practice of being church as an emergent phenomenon, empowered by the Spirit to witness the good news of Jesus in a world marked by pluralism and diversity. Duerksen and Dyrness also break new ground by offering a comprehensive, critical, and constructive theology of emergent church that truly embraces the diversity and plurality of ways a church can be a faithful witness to the coming of God's kingdom. Seeking Church is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding the future of a decolonized Christianity, where indigenous and subaltern emergent communities of faith, as well as new voices concerned with transforming church structures, are challenging us to rethink church and seek to find it in new, emergent, and hybridized forms that are able to witness faithfully to the coming of God's kingdom.”