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This comprehensive guide will facilitate scholarly research
concerning the history of Christianity in China as well as the
wider Sino-Western cultural encounter. It will assist scholars in
their search for material on the anthropological, educational,
medical, scientific, social, political, and religious dimensions of
the missionary presence in China prior to 1950.The guide contains
nearly five hundred entries identifying both Roman Catholic and
Protestant missionary sending agencies and related religious
congregations. Each entry includes the organization's name in
English, followed by its Chinese name, country of origin, and
denominational affiliation. Special attention has been paid to
identifying the many small, lesser-known groups that arrived in
China during the early decades of the twentieth century. In
addition, a special category of the as yet little-studied
indigenous communities of Chinese women has also been included.
Multiple indexes enhance the guide's accessibility.
This book presupposes that pastors and seminarians deeply desire to
answer the question of all questions: how do I make disciples of
Jesus Christ? The Great CoMission: Making Sense of Making Disciples
is a helpful guide for pastors in the field, yet "meaty" enough for
seminarians in the classroom. In The Great CoMission, readers will
encounter useful principles for discipleship and solid biblical
theology for ministry. This unique book approaches the Great
Commission from a rite-of-passage framework, therefore allowing for
serious consideration of the internal mechanisms of Matthew
28:16-20 by focusing on the relationship between initiation,
instruction, and Jesus' promise to be with the church to the end of
the age. Morton writes from a Wesleyan, cross-cultural, and
missiological perspective, avoiding the popular method of using the
Great Commission merely as a holy launching pad for retelling the
story of a mega church.
Revered for years as a saint, David Livingstone was an interesting character--difficult, demanding, and unsympathetic but also single-minded, determined, patient, and brave. The first European to cross Africa, he discovered the Victoria Falls and survived a shipwreck, attacks by natives, and being mauled by a lion.
In this wide-ranging book, the author weaves a tale of the
Franciscan missionary theatre in early colonial Mexico and
indigenous dramatizations on the theme of conquest in modern
Mexico. The book tells the story of a Jewish playwright in
17th-century Spain who dramatized Christian evangelism in the New
World, offering fresh readings of representations of the conquest
of Mexico by Dryden and Artaud, and engages in a lively dialogue
with Bakhtin's insistence that drama is a monological genre.;This
study of the theatre develops into an original meditation on the
ethics of cross-cultural encounter offering a new, dialogical model
for human and religious encounter in a pluralistic world. By the
author of "Theatre and Incarnation". Max Harris has also published
articles on literature and religion in "Bulletin of the
Comediantes", "Journal of the American Academy of Religion",
"Medium Aevum", "Modern Drama", "Radical History Review" and
"Restoration".
Out of the generation that grew up in the Great Depression and
World War II, thousands of young Christians felt called by God to
the ends of the earth. Pauline A. Brown, with her husband Ralph,
and two other families, went to the Sindh Province in southern
Pakistan in 1954 -- their goal, to share God's message love with
Muslim Sindhis. This book is not just about North Americans abroad,
but about a fellowship of ordinary people crossing cultural and
linguistic barriers to take on the extraordinary challenge of
establishing the Church in the Sindh desert. Jars of Clay is a
story of laughter and tears, of danger and deliverance, of despair
and hope, of victory and defeat. Above all, it is a story of
perseverance in the face of great odds. The story of how the Church
of Jesus Christ, small and fragile as it is, is taking root in the
barren desert soil of Sindh in Pakistan, an Islamic Republic, is
relevant more than ever in our post 9/11 world.
This book offers the first complete overview of the intellectual
history of one of the most significant contemporary cultural trends
-- the apocalyptic expectations of European and American
evangelicals -- in an account that guides readers into the origins,
its evolution, and its revolutionary potential in the modern world.
The third book in The Mission and Marginal Series looks at the
lessons we can learn from the testimonies of people living and
working on the margins of society. If you look hard enough you will
find groups of Christians deeply embedded in the life of every city
- serving faithfully, innovating in extraordinarily creative ways
and living sacrificially. This book is the third in a six-volume
series specifically exploring the theologies and practices that are
arising as groups seek to follow Jesus in these challenging
situations. At the heart of the series are the core convictions
that such involvement must prioritise the marginalised and socially
excluded; that theology must be liveable and practical; and that
mission studies benefit from engagement with insights from
contemporary social science.
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 the captivating stories of what God did in the 18th, 19th, and
20th centuries inspire you to pray for a new season of great
revival.
This book examines how in defending Asian rights and their own
version of Christian idealism against scientific racism,
missionaries developed a complex theology of race that prefigured
modern ideologies of multiculturalism and reached its final,
belated culmination in the liberal Protestant support of the civil
rights movements in the 1960s
Western missionaries in China were challenged by something they
could not have encountered in their native culture; most Westerners
were Christian, and competitions in their own countries were
principally denominational. Once they entered China they
unwittingly became spiritual merchants who marketed Christianity as
only one religion among the long-established purveyors of other
religions, such as the masters of Buddhist and Daoist rites. A
Voluntary Exile explores the convergence of cultures. This
collection of new and insightful research considers themes of
religious encounter and accommodation in China from 1552 to the
present, and confronts how both Western Europeans and indigenous
Chinese mitigated the cultural and religious antagonisms that
resulted from cultural misunderstanding. The studies in this work
identify areas where missionary accommodation in China has
succeeded and failed, and offers new insights into what contributed
to cultural conflict and confluence. Each essay responds in some
way to the "accommodationist" approach of Western missionaries and
Christianity, focusing on new areas of inquiry. For example,
Michael Maher, SJ, considers the educational and religious
formation of Matteo Ricci prior to his travels to China, and how
Ricci's intellectual approach was connected to his so-called
"accommodationist method" during the late Ming. Eric Cunningham
explores the hackneyed assertion that Francis Xavier's mission to
Asia was a "failure" due to his low conversion rates, suggesting
that Xavier's "failure" instigated the entire Chinese missionary
enterprise of the 16th and 17th centuries. And, Liu Anrong
confronts the hybridization of popular Chinese folk religion with
Catholicism in Shanxi province. The voices in this work derive from
divergent scholarly methodologies based on new research, and
provide the reader a unique encounter with a variety of
disciplinary views. This unique volume reaches across oceans,
cultures, political systems, and religious traditions to provide
important new research on the complexities of cultural encounters
between China and the West.
Sent to Heal traces the development of medical missions, one of the
most intriguing, complex, and controversial phenomena in the
history of the encounter of Western and Non-Western cultures
promoted by Christianity. This groundbreaking study surveys the
missions from their earliest beginnings in the fifteenth century
until the turn of the twentieth century. Sent to Heal is a defining
reference work on the philosophical, theological, missiological,
and scientific aspects of medical missions. An extensive
bibliography is included.
John Stott's definitive and passionate plea to the church to listen
both to God's Word and to his world (double listening)
An analysis of African American televangelists as cultural icons
Through their constant television broadcasts, mass video
distributions, and printed publications, African American religious
broadcasters have a seemingly ubiquitous presence in popular
culture. They are on par with popular entertainers and athletes in
the African American community as cultural icons even as they are
criticized by others for taking advantage of the devout in order to
subsidize their lavish lifestyles. For these reasons questions
abound. Do televangelists proclaim the message of the gospel or a
message of greed? Do they represent the "authentic" voice of the
black church or the Christian Right in blackface? Does the
phenomenon reflect orthodox "Christianity" or ethnocentric
"Americaninity" wrapped in religious language? Watch This! seeks to
move beyond such polarizing debates by critically delving into the
dominant messages and aesthetic styles of African American
televangelists and evaluating their ethical implications.
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Ray Lopez; Foreword by Paula Gill Lopez
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First published in 1926.
'These documents are full of intimate interest' Times Literary
Supplement
'A serious and intensely interesting piece of work' The
Guardian
The Jesuit missionaries were some of the earliest Europeans to find
their way into the Mogul empire in the sixteenth century. Spending
more years at Akbar's court than others did months, and traversing
his dominions from Lahore to Kabul, and from Kashmir to the Deccan,
they undoubtedly sowed the seeds of British influence in the
East.
Reproducing, or summarizing the most valuable of the missionaries'
letters written prior to 1610, this volume makes available the
illegible and scattered primary sources on the reign of the Emperor
Akbar, and as such, forms the earliest European description of the
Mogul Empire.
First published in 1930.
'The book is full of splendour and strange scenes' Nation
The Relations of Fernao Guerreiro, from which the three narratives
in this volume have been taken, constitute a complete history of
the missionary undertakings of the Society of Jesus in the East
Indies, China, Japan and Africa during the first decade of the
seventeenth century. The work was compiled from the annual letters
and reports sent to Europe from the various missionary centres. The
original work, which until this edition was published in 1930, had
never been reprinted. The only complete copy exists in the British
Museum Library, in London.
We like to think our church welcomes visitors. But how welcoming
can we be, if we are not inviting? We are welcoming as long as
people get themselves across the church threshold, but we fail to
take our welcome outside. During the years Michael has been
developing Back to Church Sunday, he has conducted an extensive
study on the seemingly simple subject of 'invitation'. Over 650
times in 12 countries he has asked: 'Why don't we invite our
friends to take a closer look at Christ?' The many answers form the
impetus for this book. After considering why it seems so hard to
invite friends to church, Michael looks at our concerns over
acceptance and rejection, and suggests ideas gleaned from years of
trying to establish a culture of invitation. 'When I have
specifically encouraged Christians to issue an invitation, some
people say yes and some no. God sent his son to invite us all into
a relationship, and so to be like God is to be a person who
invites!'
As parents, we always worry if we're doing enough for our children,
but there's one thing we can do no matter where we are in our
parenting journey: pray. With a grace-filled approach and a warm,
personal style, bestselling author Jodie Berndt gives you the tools
and the encouragement you need to pray intentionally for your
children. This unique interactive journal, based on the bestseller
Praying the Scriptures for Your Children, is an invitation to
ignite your faith by praying for your children. Along the way,
you'll discover firsthand how using the Bible to shape your desires
and requests opens the door to God's provision-and frees you from
things like worry and fear in your parenting. You can finally take
comfort in knowing that no matter how far away your kids may be,
they are never out of His reach. Filled with biblical insights,
compelling prayer principles, and prompts to direct you and deepen
your faith, Praying the Scriptures Journal offers you a way to
powerfully influence your children's lives. This interactive
journal also includes: Focused areas of prayer, including faith,
character, safety, relationships, the future, and more Encouraging
quotes from Praying the Scriptures for Your Children, Praying the
Scriptures for Your Teens, and Praying the Scriptures for Your
Adult Children Timeless Scripture verses that go along with the
topic of each section Journaling prompts for personal processing,
along with plenty of space for notes Short prayers to help you
start praying for your children Berndt reminds us that there can be
no greater privilege than partnering with Him, through our prayers,
to accomplish His best purposes in the lives of the people we love.
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Rick Love
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