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In the dialogues of Christians with Muslims nothing is more fundamental than the Cross, the Incarnation and the Resurrection of Jesus. Building on the Jesus and the Cross, this book contains voices of Christians living in various 'Islamic contexts' and reflecting on the Incarnation of Jesus. The aim and hope of these reflections is that the papers weaved around the notion of 'the Word' will not only promote dialogue among Christians on the roles...
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This volume is a way of marking an important milestone in the relatively short story of the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies (OCMS). The papers here, have been, exclusively, sourced from Transformation, a quarterly journal of OCMS, and seek to provide a tripartite view of Christianity's engagement with cultures by focusing on the question: How is Christian thinking being formed or reformed through its interaction with the varied contexts it encounters?...
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Women's voices are often unheard and unreported; and their place can be controversial. This book brings together the voices of Christian women scholars and practitioners at the nexus of Christianity, mission and Islam. It comes out of the colloquium of the same name, held in Melbourne, Australia in 2015, when twenty-eight women from different nations and nationalities, different ages and theological perspectives, and different religious backgrounds...
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Evangelicalism has, since the 1960s, outpaced mainline Protestantism to encompass more than a third of American adults and nearly half of all U. S. Christians. Thematic chapters on culture, spirituality, theology, politics, and ethnicity reveal sources of the movement's dynamism, as well as significant challenges confronting the rising generations. This collaborative undertaking by scholars of history, religious studies, theology, political science,...
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Christians and communities of faith today are rediscovering evangelism as an essential aspect of the church's mission. Many of the resulting books in the marketplace, however, have a hands-on orientation, often lacking serious theological engagement and reflection. Bucking that how-to trend,The Study of Evangelism offers thirty groundbreaking essays that plumb the depths of the biblical and theological heritage of the church with reference to evangelistic...
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The year 1734 marked the beginning of one of the greatest revivals in the history of North America. Sparked by the preaching of Jonathan Edwards, the flames of revival spread throughout New England. Other great awakenings followed across the new nation as God sent spiritual revival through the ministries of George Whitefield, Charles Finney, Dwight L. Moody, Billy Graham, and many others. Today, America is in need of a fresh awakening from God. May...
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What is a perfect life? A life without pain, suffering, or disappointment? Not even Jesus lived that way. So just what kind of life should his followers aspire to?
This video curriculum from Highway Video will get people talking and thinking about a life lived perfectly. A blend of documentary, mockumentary, drama, comedy, and meditation give you the raw material for lessons on:
Redemption: The story of a woman who stopped hiding who she was to...
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Where do we go from here? We want to help others find freedom-lasting freedom, from trafficking and exploitation. But, the process is as fraught with challenges as it is filled with calls to do better. What are the best routes to effectiveness? How do we avoid common pitfalls? This book brings together decades of experience to help us navigate the complexities of responding to holistic needs in prevention, intervention, rehabilitation, and reintegration....
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No one can hope to fully understand the modern Christian missionary movement without engaging substantially with the World Missionary Conference, held at Edinburgh in 1910. This book is the first to systematically, examine the eight Commissions that reported to Edinburgh 1910 and gave the conference much of its substance and enduring value. It deepened and extended the reflection that was, stimulated by the centenary and kindled the missionary imagination...
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The Edinburgh 2010 study process is unique. Set up to mark the centenary of the World Missionary Conference, Edinburgh 1910, it is a project of churches worldwide that is multi-regional, cross-denominational, and poly-centric. It involves all the major Christian world bodies, including Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant, Evangelical, and Pentecostal, with study events taking place on every continent and involving hundreds of Christians in different parts...
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This book is an integral collection of essays looking at the shaping of Christianity in China, with a special emphasis on the contributions of Chinese believers. In addition to its geographical scope of the China Mainland, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, the material covers a span of time from the end of the Ming Dynasty until the Sichuan earthquake of 2008. Also, Anglicans, Presbyterians, Roman Catholics, Charismatics, and various kinds of independents rub...
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This, book grows out of a desire to come to grips with our new context. Until, a few decades ago, we believed that Norway was for Norwegians, and that Norwegians were Christian, most of them even Lutheran. Slowly at first, but then, with increasing momentum, our neighborhoods and villages changed from being mono-cultural and mono-religious into something less Norwegian, but more like a rainbow society. This book brings together the presentations of...
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Christian ministries often struggle to account for urbanization's growing force, complexities, and reachâ€"and to formulate theologically and sociologically appropriate responses. Urban Ministry Reconsidered features a collection of original essays by leading scholars and practitioners that explores current issues and challenges in urban communities.
Together these articles consider how cultural and structural frameworks have led to new conceptualizations...
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As the world comes to terms with the human-caused destruction of God's sacred creation, whether global Christianity will celebrate a bicentennial Edinburgh 2110 becomes a real question. Yet, as Creation Care in Christian Mission shows, the mounting and life-threatening ecological crisis is at the heart of the mission of God. The volume's contributing authors represent a wide range of Christian traditions and geographical regions, on which they draw...
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This study identifies and analyzes the methods, achievements, and constraints of the socialist agricultural policy of post-revolutionary Ethiopia. It investigates the Land Reform Legislation of 1975 and its relevance to Ethiopian conditions at that time. Applying a social-interaction approach, this book examines the interrelationships among the different socioeconomic actors, who affected the success and shortcomings of the policy and its implementation....
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Contextualisation and Mission Training offers "contextual frameworks" and "explorations" in order to prompt deeper engagement with the complexity of Asian social, cultural, and religious systems. When we take contextualization theories seriously, how does it change the way we prepare and train cross-cultural workers? This book seeks to raise pertinent and controversial issues related to some of the challenges facing the Asian church in engaging with...
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This book contains essays from the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies' quarterly journal, Transformation, on the topic of Christian Ethics. The papers were selected from volumes published over a period of twenty-five years, during which period Transformation grew from an international journal merely covering "Christian social ethics" to one of "Holistic Mission Studies." Here, Mission Studies is, understood in its widest sense to also, encompass Christian...
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This book is for those who suspect that current practices of short-term missions are in need of serious reform. It is a book for those who recognize that, in this decade of global upheaval-and in light of the cultural, political, and demographic shifts affecting churches everywhere-now is the time for change. The essays here are intended to equip and inspire any who want to advocate for change but may not yet know what change looks like.
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