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Confronting Corruption: Letting the Bible Speak
The purpose of this book is to transform attitudes and behaviors of Christians who live in societies where corrupt behavior is a fact of life, and to do this by letting the Bible, as God's word, speak. This book is intended to be used for weekly reading by pastors to remind congregations that corruption has no place in Christian life, as a resource for Bible colleges, and for small group Bible study.
$14.99
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Conflict Transformation: Churches in the Face of Structural Violence in Northern Nigeria
Conflict Transformation examines the role Christianity plays in transforming structural violence. Using case studies in Northern Nigera, this book looks into Christian mission work, beyond the provision of education and health services, into challenges missions face in transforming cultural conflicts.
$22.99
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Coming Home: Loss, Grief and Re-entry
Focusing on the care of mission personnel on their re-entry journey after cross-cultural missions, Coming Home promotes a deeper understanding of the complex nature of the experience. Considering the key aspects of loss and grief, this book advocates for specific proactive measures to assist these personnel as they transition home.
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Civilisations in Conflict?: Islam, the West and Christian Faith
Civilisations in Conflict? is a response to Samuel Huntington's controversial thesis of Islam's clash with Western politics and values. This study compares the origins and early histories of Islam and Christianity, two of the most influential religions in the world, and draws critical conclusions on contemporary intercultural understanding.
$19.99
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Church Planting in Patronage Cultures: Aid Dependency Issues and Missional Implications from Korea to Cambodia
Patronage governs most relationships in Global South cultures. This book shows that when a patron plays a role as a father, he plays a significant role in developing national pastors as church planters, and offers an alternative reading of aid dependency as a relational concept rather than an economic one.
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Christology in Dialogue with Muslims: A Critical Analysis of Christian Presentations of Christ for Muslims from the Ninth and Twentieth Centuries
Bridging the gap between Muslim and Christian convictions, Christology in Dialogue with Muslims travels to the first half of the ninth century and the second half of the twentieth century. There, this book analyses Christian presentations of Christ for Muslims in these two most creative eras of Christian-Muslim dialogue.
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Christians Meeting Hindus: An Analysis and Theological Critique of the Hindu-Christian Encounter in India
Peer deep into interfaith encounters in Christians Meeting Hindus. This book performs a critical analysis of the Hindu-Christian dialogue model in India, examining both its strengths and weaknesses. Paired with this analysis is intricate detail of the actual encounter, portraying the model at play to magnify this book's critique.
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Christianity & Education: Shaping Christian Thinking in Context
Christianity and Education brings to life a collection of papers published in Transformation: An International Journal of Holistic Mission Studies over the span of fifteen years. Theological libraries, students, and teachers will appreciate this spectrum of Christian thinking on theological education to global mission, informed education, other methodologies and beyond.
$26.99
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Christianity and Cultures: Shaping Christian Thinking in Context
Christianity and Cultures is a collection of papers from Transformation, a journal of the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies, that illuminate how Christianity engages with cultures. From theological or socio-political contexts to family relationships, this book examines how Christianity is formed, expressed and emphasised in a vast array of situations.
$22.99
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Christian Worldview & Transformation: Spirituality, Reason & Social Order
Christian Worldview and Transformation seeks to reveal how the Christian worldview can instigate positive change in society. Pulling from moments in history such as the Reformation and poverty in Brazil, this book proposes new and alternative ideas for using spirituality to influence social progress.
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Christian Morality in Ghanaian Pentecostalism
In Christian Morality in Ghanaian Pentecostalism, Lord Abraham Elorm-Donkor examines the continually developing identity of African Christians, balanced between traditional African religions and Pentecostalism. Elorm-Donkor paints a new picture of Pentecostal theology in Ghana, repositioning Christianity among the virtues and moral ethics at play in Africa.
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Christian Mission in Urban Context: Identifying Main Conditioning Factors in the Growth of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Lima, Peru
Since 1973, the Christian & Missionary Alliance in Lima, Peru, has exploded in membership, going from 120 members to around 60,000 today. Christian Mission in Urban Context presents a socio-theological analysis of this substantial membership growth and the main conditioning factors behind it.
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Child, Church and Compassion: Towards Child Theology in Romania
Child, Church and Compassion presents half a decade of research into the study of child theology, particularly the church's role in effectively providing for hungry and homeless children. These studies in Romania are critical to an informed understanding of neglected and abused children and those who attempt to help them.
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Charismatic Leadership in Islam: The Powerful Position of Sufi Shaikhs in Bosnia
To understand Islam, one must understand its people. Charismatic Leadership in Islam is an ethnographic study of two contemporary Sufi communities and their leaders, exploring the perplexing range of theological and ritual variation, arguing for a direct correlation between Sufi multiformity and the agency of the spiritual leader, the Shaikh.
$14.99
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Charis and Charisma: David Yonggi Cho and the Growth of Yoido Full Gospel Church
Charis and Charisma ventures deep inside Yoido Full Gospel Church, the world's largest church, to study what makes it a model of success. This book focuses on God's grace (charis) and inspiring leadership (charisma) as the two essential factors for church growth, particularly as founder David Yonggi Cho embodied them.
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Called Out for Witness: The Missional Journey of Grace Korean Church
Called Out for Witness tells the vast, dedicated missionary history of Grace Korean Church in California. Since 1982, GKC has invested over 50 percent of its income into mission operations in over sixty countries. This book examines GKC's theological motivations, as well as the future of the church's missionary journey.
$18.99
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Building Bridges: From Asian Faiths to Jesus in the Gospels
In an age of religious opposition and individualism, Building Bridges seeks to foster mutual respect between Christians, Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists and Muslims. This book examines the truths in their scriptures in order to awaken the reader's desire to study the gospels and learn who Jesus is and why he came.
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Bridging the Cultural Gap: A Case Study of a Church in Nepal
This is an abridged version of Ole Kirchheiner's Regnum book, Culture and Christianity Negotiated in Hindu Society. Through an examination of the Nepali church, the study pays special attention to the way ordinary Christians have been able to settle social and religious issues to live and work together with the traditional religious people in Nepal, and maintain a good family life.
$12.99
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Blessed and Called to Be a Blessing: Muslim-Christian Couples Sharing a Life Together
Blessed and Called to Be a Blessing draws on the lived experiences of Muslims and Christians in interfaith marriages in Indonesia and Australia, offering fresh understandings of Christian mission and Muslim da'wah. These narratives provide missiological inspiration for building inclusive communities and forging bonds of respect and understanding.
$18.99
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Asia's Forgotten Christian Story
This book seeks to bring light to the Eastern churches under early Islam, in order to reveal something of the vigor of Christianity where it has been overlooked or was not expected to be found.
$12.99
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