R. Daniel Shaw

Abrahamic Blessing

Evangelism & Missions

“Gallagher creatively brings a biblical understanding of Abrahamic blessing and contemporary socio-religious issues to demonstrate the relevance of studying apparently disparate contexts. The balance of a narrative approach to exegesis and ethnographic interviewing enables a missional appreciation of both the Bible and Melanesian contexts. The outcome is an appreciation of blessing as a biblical expression within a cultural context where the Holy Spirit enables God's blessing.”

Bible Translating as a Loyal Activity

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“While reading this book in a Samo village in Papua New Guinea, I am mindful of my fifty-plus years of translation engagement. Houston clearly lays out the theoretical and practical considerations that have thankfully changed. Remaining loyal to both, the focus must ethically reflect the entire translation context. May we ultimately be loyal to the intent of our God and the socio-linguistic needs of the people for whom the translation makes a difference in the way they live.”

Guiding Light

Evangelism & Missions

Foreword

(wrote the foreword)

Hybridizing Mission

Evangelism & Missions

“As mission becomes increasingly multinational and intercultural, Christian workers from around the world mix with each other as well as the people in the ministry context, and the complexities multiply. Drawing on current global trending, Peter Lee uses data from North Africa to develop the concept of ‘diasporic habitus’ to highlight the impact of complex social contexts which create hybridizing experiences. Such blending energizes all who occupy the missional space. I affirm this conceptualization.”

Reclaiming the Good News

Evangelism & Missions

“Contextualization is the realization of biblical content in a particular time and place. For John Hitchen that time and place is his life of ministry from 1965 to the present in Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, and Australia. John’s wholistic reflection of biblical truth (good news) mixed with cultural insight for contextual value is the essence of this volume. Thanks, Tim Meadowcroft, for making it possible.”

Steps toward a Tibetan Understanding of Purity

World Religions

Foreword

(wrote the foreword)

The Impact of Short-Term Missions on Long-Term Missional Development

Evangelism & Missions

Foreword

(wrote the foreword)

The Return of Oral Hermeneutics

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

Foreword

(wrote the foreword)

Toward a Twenty-First Century Biblical, Apostolic Church

Church Leadership & Ministry

Foreword

(wrote the foreword)

Walking Blind, Revised and Expanded Edition

Christian Living

“[In this work] Canfield muses on lesser-known Bible passages, not anthropologically, but rather theologically as an anthropologist. He brings people in the Bible to life, showing how, in their context, they handled life experiences with emotion and response relative to their circumstances. As human beings, we today, do the same—the human condition binds us all. Canfield’s well-researched and culturally analyzed reflections demonstrate there is ‘nothing new under the sun.’ Ultimately, individuals as well as whole societies must ‘walk by faith and not by sight.’”