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Author : Gustav Warneck
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Modern Missions and Culture written by Gustav Warneck and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gustav Warneck
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781020574658
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (746 download)
Download or read book Modern Missions And Culture written by Gustav Warneck and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This seminal work of Christian missions explores the complex and often fraught relationship between missionaries and the cultures they seek to serve. The book argues that effective Christian missions must be grounded in a deep understanding of local cultures, customs, and traditions, and must be carried out with sensitivity, humility, and respect. The book draws on examples from missionary work around the world and provides practical insights for modern-day missionaries and cross-cultural workers. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Charles R. Taber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The World is Too Much with Us written by Charles R. Taber and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taber explores the interaction in recent history between the modern missionary movement (especially its Protestant expressions) and concurrent developments in the social sciences, specifically the emergence of the concept of culture. To begin, he traces the prehistory of the concept of culture from antiquity through the Enlightenment, and up to the dawn of the modern Protestant missionary movement. He then describes the historical context of the nineteenth century in terms of processes such as the industrial revolution, the abolitionist movement, the colonial enterprise, and in terms of key ideas such as evolution and the birth of anthropology. Taber goes on to situate the place and rise of the modern missionary movement in the nineteenth century, tracing how it was influenced by prevalent ideas and attitudes and how it contributed to our understanding of culture and cultures. He then looks at twentieth-century theories of culture and discusses those that have influenced missiology. Finally, he examines and evaluates some unresolved issues in missions.
Author : Steve Hollinghurst
Publisher : Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1853118427
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (531 download)
Download or read book Mission Shaped Evangelism written by Steve Hollinghurst and published by Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd. This book was released on 2010 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a landmark book that will renew our understanding of what the gospel - literally 'the good news about Jesus' - is for today's cultures. It begins with a key challenge - do we believe God speaks in the cultural context, or only in the Christian tradition? Part One - Listening to God in the cultural context explores the radically changing culture in which the church exists today, the rise of new spiritualities, the secularisation of society and religion's increasingly dubious public image. Part Two - Listening to God in the Christian tradition looks at key periods in Christian history as responses to cultural changes, from the ancient pagan world to modernist faith. What can we learn from the lessons of the past? Part Three moves from theory to practice and tells great stories where innovative evangelism is taking place - from supermarkets to festivals to the internet.
Author : Gailyn Van Rheenen
Publisher : Zondervan Academic
ISBN 13 : 031051522X
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Missions written by Gailyn Van Rheenen and published by Zondervan Academic. This book was released on 2014-07-22 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “In a rapidly changing world,... the central missionary vision of the church must be constantly renewed, lest its foundations become lost in the confusion of change or its practices trapped in missionary models of the past.” In this second edition of Missions, long-time missionary Gailyn Van Rheenen revises and updates his classic text on Christian missions, laying sound theological and strategic foundations for the missionary of today and tomorrow. Van Rheenen helps renew the missionary vision by discussing areas such as: The history of Christian mission, and how it affects where we are today Spiritual formation for God’s mission The missionary cycle Cross-cultural communication The character and calling of missionaries Types of missionaries Church maturation Selecting mission fields The role of money in missions Four levels of involvement in missions But Missions is more than blackboard theory. Written by a long-time missionary, it carries the conviction and insights of one who has lived his subject. Accessible to students, practitioners, and laypeople alike, Missions provides a primary go-to resource for understanding and becoming involved in the dynamic activity of world missions.
Author : Lamin Sanneh
Publisher : Orbis Books
ISBN 13 : 1608331482
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (83 download)
Download or read book Translating the Message written by Lamin Sanneh and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2015-02-25 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Matt Rhodes
Publisher : Crossway
ISBN 13 : 143357778X
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (335 download)
Download or read book No Shortcut to Success written by Matt Rhodes and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2021-12-28 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Avoid "Get-Rich-Quick" Missions Strategies and Invest in Effective, Long-Term Ministry Trendy new missions strategies are a dime a dozen, promising missionaries monumental results in record time. These strategies report explosive movements of people turning to Christ, but their claims are often dubious and they do little to ensure the health of believers or churches that remain. How can churches and missionaries address the urgent need to reach unreached people without falling for quick fixes? In No Shortcut to Success, author and missionary Matt Rhodes implores Christians to stop chasing silver-bullet strategies and short-term missions, and instead embrace theologically robust and historically demonstrated methods of evangelism and discipleship—the same ones used by historic figures such as William Carey and Adoniram Judson. These great missionaries didn't rush evangelism; they spent time studying Scripture, mastering foreign languages, and building long-term relationships. Rhodes explains that modern missionaries' emphasis on minimal training and quick conversions can result in slipshod evangelism that harms the communities they intend to help. He also warns against underestimating the value of individual skill and effort—under the guise of "getting out of the Lord's way"—and empowers Christians with practical, biblical steps to proactively engage unreached groups. Biblical Ministry Advice: Examines the work of respected missionaries throughout history Encourages Professionalism in Missions: Rhodes teaches missionaries to invest in theological education, communication, and technical skills A Great Resource for Ministries: Includes specific advice for singles, parents, and other groups Insightful: Examines strengths and weaknesses of recent missionary movements
Author : George R. Hunsberger
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780802841094
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)
Download or read book The Church Between Gospel and Culture written by George R. Hunsberger and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1996 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This excellent collection of essays, written by a diverse group of Christian leaders working on the frontier of mission within the present North American context, lays the groundwork for the newly emerging missionary encounter of the gospel with North American culture. Demonstrating that the missionary identity of the church is to be found at the intersection of culture-gospel-church, these essays outline the missionary agenda now before the church as it confronts North American assumptions, perspectives, preferences, and practices.
Author : Randy S. Woodley
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725263874
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)
Download or read book Mission and the Cultural Other written by Randy S. Woodley and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-09-01 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mission and the Cultural Other is a decolonial critique of a too often failed missionary enterprise. Rev. Dr. Randy Woodley, a former missionary and missiologist, writes both as an insider and an outsider. As an Indigenous person, a missionary among Native Americans, and a decolonial theologian with over thirty years of experience in various missionary movements, he has seen the best and worst that American mission has to offer. Before change can be made in a guarded system such as Christian mission, the critique must be pervasive and cut to the core of the problem. To truly understand the weakness of modern mission, we need to hear from those who have been its casualties.
Author : John C. Sivalon
Publisher : Orbis Books
ISBN 13 : 1570759995
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (77 download)
Download or read book God's Mission and Postmodern Culture written by John C. Sivalon and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on his own mission training and experience, John Sivalon believes the gospel can and must be inculturated in any culture, and he believes that postmodernism, rather than rendering Christian mission meaningless, breathes fresh insight, vision, and life into Vatican II's notion that mission is centred in the very heart of God.
Author : William Allen Smalley
Publisher : Mercer University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780865543898
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Translation as Mission written by William Allen Smalley and published by Mercer University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Christians from New Testament times on, the Bible has almost everywhere been a translated Bible. For eighteen centuries it was normally translated into new languages by native speakers, but with the beginning of the nineteenth century and the modern missionary movement came a burst of missionary translation around the world. As missionary churches were established and as societies worldwide were affected by the gospel, people studied the translations, preached from them, and recounted stories to their children. In many societies these translations were the foundation for Christian communities, for theology (including indigenous theologies), and a powerful stimulus to modernization and even secularization reaching beyond the Christian community.Smalley contends that the theological presuppositions of these missionary translators varied widely. He argues that some missionary translators were insightful scholars who probed deeply into the languages and cultures in which they were working; others were unable to transcend the perspective their own culture prescribed for them. Earlier missionaries did not always have a clearly formulated theory of translation or an understanding of what they were doing and why. Eventually, however, a theoretical model was developed, a model that the majority of translators (both missionary and nonmissionary) now use. Smalley maintains that the task of Bible translation is now passing out of the hands of missionaries and back into the hands of native speakers, casting the missionary translator into significantly changed roles in the translation process.
Author : Paul G. Hiebert
Publisher : Baker Academic
ISBN 13 : 080103681X
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Gospel in Human Contexts written by Paul G. Hiebert and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A leading evangelical anthropologist/missiologist provides students of intercultural ministry with an understanding of worldview and a strategy for effective, long-term ministry.
Author : Michael W. Stroope
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830882251
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Transcending Mission written by Michael W. Stroope and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IVP Readers' Choice Award Mission, missions, missional, and all its linguistic variations are part of the expanding vocabulary and rhetoric of the contemporary Christian missionary enterprise. Its language and assumptions are deeply ingrained in the thought and speech of the church today. Christianity is a missionary religion and faithful churches are mission-minded. What's more, in telling the story of apostles and bishops and monks as missionaries, we think we have grasped the true thread of Christian history. But what about those odd shapes, those unsettling gaps and creases in the historical record? Is the language of mission so clearly evident across the broad reaches of time? Is the trajectory of mission really so explicit from the early church to the present? Or has the modern missionary enterprise distorted our view of the past? As with every reigning paradigm, there comes a point when enough questions surface to beg for a close and critical look, even when it may seem transgressive to do so. In this study of the language of mission—its origin, development, and application—Michael Stroope investigates how the modern church has come to understand, speak of, and engage in the global expansion of Christianity. There is both surprise and hope in this tale. And perhaps the beginnings of a new conversation.
Author : Sherwood G. Lingenfelter
Publisher : Baker Academic
ISBN 13 : 0801021782
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Transforming Culture written by Sherwood G. Lingenfelter and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 1998-11 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lingenfelter sets out a model for understanding the workings of a society and then applies this model to conflicts missionaries and nationals often face over economic and social issues. He makes the second edition more accessible than the first by clarifying concepts, adding case studies, and reducing the book's length. October '98 publication date.
Author : Wilbert R. Shenk
Publisher : Orbis Books
ISBN 13 : 1608331024
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (83 download)
Download or read book Changing Frontiers of Mission written by Wilbert R. Shenk and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2015-03-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrew F. Walls
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467467634
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (674 download)
Download or read book The Missionary Movement from the West written by Andrew F. Walls and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2023-10-26 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A long-awaited culmination of scholarship by a pioneer of missiology and global Christianity The history of the missions is complex and fraught. Though modern missions began with European colonialism, the outcome was a largely non-Western global Christianity. Highly esteemed scholar Andrew Walls explores every facet of the movement, including its history, theory, and future. Walls locates the birth of the Protestant missionary movement in the West with the Puritans and Pietists and their efforts to convert the Native Americans they displaced. Tracing the movement into the twentieth century, Walls shows how colonialism and missionary work turned out to be essentially incompatible. Missionaries must live on another culture’s terms, and their goal—the establishment of churches of every nation—depends on accepting new, indigenous Christians as equals. Now that Christianity has become primarily an African, Latin American, and Asian religion rather than a European one, the dynamics of the church’s mission have transformed. Sensitive to this shift, Walls indicates new areas of listening to and learning from this new center of Christianity and speculates on the theological contributions from a truly global church. Throughout his long and fruitful career, Walls told the story of missions as a dedicated Christian scholar, teacher, and mentor. Prior to his passing in 2021, he entrusted the editing of his lectures to his friends and students. The result of this labor of love, The Missionary Movement from the West is a must-read for scholars of missiology, world Christianity, and church history.
Author : John Stott
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830834117
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Christian Mission in the Modern World written by John Stott and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2008-12-04 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Stott shows that Christian mission must encompass both evangelism and social action. He begins with careful definitions of five key terms: mission, evangelism, dialogue, salvation and conversion. Then, through a thorough biblical exploration of these concepts, Stott provides a model for ministry to people's spiritual and physical needs alike.
