Stephen Bevans
2010Boston: The Changing Contours of World Mission and Christianity
Evangelism & Missions
“Comprehensive and forward-looking, this book is an important resource for theological faculty and students, church leaders, and people in the pews interested in the future direction of Christian mission and world Christianity. Ecumenical and pluriphonic, each chapter offers new insights and adds richness to the whole. I highly recommend it." Kwok Pui-lan, author of Postcolonial Imagination and Feminist Theology "This volume represents a worthy, thought-provoking commemoration of Edinburgh 1910. The emphasis on student participation at Boston 2010 is particularly significant. Many of the students at Edinburgh went on to become leaders of the twentieth century church. One can only hope that the many students who participated in this conference will do the same for our own century.”
Evangelism & Missions
“What’s the point of the church being a global family if we never listen to one another? Or worse, if only some members of the family get to do all the talking? It is vital that the voices of the global church are heard by those in the western churches who have tended to listen only to themselves – especially when those voices are speaking from the cutting edge of the church’s mission. So I heartily commend the vision and intentions of this project. Christopher J. H. Wright, Langham Partnership Mission is about encounters and participating in what God is doing to bring about God’s kingdom. The new Global Voices Series is a wonderful project that gives voice to those who have been engaged in God’s mission for many decades, but whose voices have not yet been heard in much of the world. Through these books, God’s people will be challenged and encouraged to think about and to practice mission in transformative ways; we will hear God’s call anew in the unique contexts these texts reflect and we will learn how to participate again in our service to the kingdom of Christ. Rosalee Velloso Ewell, PhD, Principal, Redcliffe College Executive Director, Theological Commission, World Evangelical Alliance The books in this collection expose us to connected themes which provide a foundational canvas for Christianity throughout the world. They approach mission as a challenging invitation to be born again, to break paradigms, to rupture with and change the cultural perspectives with which one perceives the world – our “Worldviews”. They also highlight the need for a profound transformation of our understanding of the Great Commission, suggesting that this is more than just a cross-cultural task, but that it also includes labouring to manifest the Kingdom of God in our daily life space, within our families and our workplaces. Finally, the books in this series also present a valuable approach that broadens the concept of mission itself: salvation through rebirth cannot be merely understood anthropocentrically. Its blessing must reach all of creation. It becomes clear that to fulfil the cultural mandate of Gen. 2:15 it is also necessary to know and understand the functioning of creation as an ecosystem. Marina da Silva, Former Brazilian Senator, Minister of Environment and 2018 Presidential candidate I have often lamented the fact that much of the most ground-breaking contextual theology is being done in languages that are largely inaccessible to the majority of the world's theologians. I have also often encouraged younger theologians that, instead of learning the classic languages of French and German, they should learn Spanish, or Korean, or Tagalog, or Indonesian. While learning these languages – or some of them – is still necessary today, Regnum Books is providing a great service to the future of theology by inaugurating this series in which hitherto inaccessible, major theological and missiological works will be translated into English. This is one of the most exciting projects that I have ever heard about, and one that has the potential to change the face of theology in our time. Now we are much closer to listening to all the voices!”
Church Leadership & Ministry
“This is mission theology at its best—grounded in God’s mission, focused not on the church but on its role in working with God for the ‘well-being’ of all creatures, . . . ecumenically sensitive, honest, and practical at every turn. If you are going to read one book on mission, read this one. . . . It may be the best book you will read this year, and you will be inspired and changed.”
Christian Missions in East Bengal
History & Biography
“In this book, we read of a great Christian patriot of Bangladesh whose life and times are lovingly written by a young Muslim scholar of that country. Tanveer Ahmed offers a wonderful example of scholarship that is at the same time a product of a respectful and fruitful interreligious dialogue.”
Church and Ethical Responsibility in the Midst of World Economy
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“This book is minjung theology gone global! It is wise, rich, complex, amazingly learned, and passionate in its call for a prophetic Christian approach to global economics.”
Church Leadership & Ministry
“The church, like the Triune God, must give itself away. This is perhaps the central thesis in Michael Moynagh’s exciting and provocative book, and this is the reason why new ecclesial communities need to be cultivated with creativity, imagination and entrepreneurship. It’s not about the church. It’s about God’s dream for the world. That’s why a real church, like the generous God it serves, needs to be rooted in real life. When you read this book, you will think differently about the church, and perhaps even do church differently as well.”
History & Biography
“In this extensive biography of the great Cambridge theologian John Wood Oman, Fleur Houston brings careful and detailed historical research together with profound and rich theological expertise to create an insightful and moving story of both the man and the era in which he lived. Contemporary theology—and, indeed, spirituality—can profit greatly from Houston’s scholarship and Oman’s wisdom.”
Theology
“Rooms takes his contextual theologizing to a new level of sophistication in these pages, engaging in a dialogue not only with churches in England’s North, but with contextual, practical, and decolonial theologies in the world church. In the same way that he profits from these dialogues, contextual theologians worldwide can profit greatly from Nigel Rooms’s brilliant new work.”
Crossing Cultures with the Gospel
Evangelism & Missions
“Whiteman’s gift to us in this book is a magnificent tour de force, an eloquent summary of a life lived helping people imitate God’s self-emptying, incarnational love as they participate in God’s mission. It is warm, wise, inspiring, beautifully written, passionate, eminently practical, and deeply challenging. It should be read by every missionary but also by any disciple who yearns to minister faithfully, creatively, and effectively in today’s multicultural church and world.”
Theology
“If theologians, like Ratzinger, begin from a perspective of the priority of the universal church over the local; if they emphasize the vast cultural riches of the West and have a Western aesthetic, they will end up at odds with theologians--particularly those from Asia--who work from a conviction of the local church's autonomy and cultural validity. Mong carefully and respectfully presents Ratzinger's entire theological system and argues that as brilliant as it is, it is unable to dialogue with the cultural and religious context of Asia, or anyplace except the developed West.”
Evangelism & Missions
“Kim Lamberty brings a lifetime of experience to this fascinating book. Her voice is not only her own however, but the many people among whom she has lived and served--those whom she quotes directly, and those whom she echoes in the gentle way in which the book is written. Putting her experience in dialogue with contemporary thinking and practice of mission, she has given new depth to the understanding of mission as accompaniment.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Inspired by the civil and human rights unrest in his home of Hong Kong, and realizing the eventual need for true reconciliation there, Ambrose Mong has written this thoughtful and often moving book. . . . Central to Mong’s thinking is that memory is the key to lasting reconciliation. We forgive, but we cannot—we must not—forget.”
Theology
“God at Work in the World is the work of a mature scholar who has pondered the questions of mission, salvation, Christology, ecclesiology, and global culture over a lifetime of scholarship and teaching. It is a work that is the product of wide reading, not only of major Western scholars but also of scholars from the majority world—as a book on global Christianity should be. Pachuau has offered to fellow scholars and students around the world a firm introduction to the theology of mission that is not only profound but also accessible and sometimes even provocative. His approach is balanced, thoughtful, and ecumenically sensitive and will be an important addition to any theological or missiological library.”
Evangelism & Missions
“In an age when the ‘acids of modernity’ and post-modernity have challenged Western Christianity as it has never been challenged before, Lesslie Newbigin’s thought offers a powerful, inspiring, cogent, and joyful ‘logic’ of Christian mission. In this lucid, rich, and deeply engaging book, Newbigin’s friend and disciple Paul Weston explains his vision in ways that not only reveal Newbigin’s genius but also his faith-filled ‘humble confidence’ in the revolutionary meaning of Jesus Christ. It is one of the best books I have read in the past year.”
Intercultural Theology, Volume One
Evangelism & Missions
“This is a book of dazzling breadth and truly remarkable depth of scholarship. It offers a foundational approach that, if taken seriously, will influence mission studies in profound and significant ways.”
Theology
“This is an amazing book, learned and very wise. Catholic leaders talk today about 'the new evangelization.' I think they would be well advised to read this book to understand both the challenge and importance of this new evangelization for those who are so faithful, and yet find themselves at the church's margins. Such women and men may well evangelize us!”
Evangelism & Missions
“Postcolonial thought, feminism, and liberation theology have all taught us that what often passes as service and ministry is really about forms of unequal power and even domination. This volume, another in the important Edinburgh 2010 series, probes the complex relation between mission and power and offers ways that unjust power relations might be finally made relations of justice and equality.”
Missional Worship, Worshipful Mission
Preaching & Worship
“A wonderful, faith-filled meditation on the missional heart of worship. . . . A new classic in liturgical studies and in missiology as well.”
NOTE: Only includes books currently in our catalog; not necessarily a complete list.
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