Advancing Models of Mission: Evaluating the Past and Looking to the Future - Paperback
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Christians have been reflecting on best practices for as long as they have been engaging in missions. Practitioners have developed diverse strategies to promote the spread of the Gospel--such as indigenous church planting, disciple-making movements, community development, dynamically equivalent Bible translations, and chronological Bible storytelling. These models began as creative analyses of the mission endeavor, in light of the current cultural context. As that context shifts, it is also important to critically re-examine these models. Advancing Models of Mission reflects on the missionaries and models of the past and reconsiders current models, all with the aim of looking toward the future of evangelical mission.
This compendium of thirteen essays tackles such timely and difficult questions as:
Readers can learn about the contexts of the past that shaped our current missiological models while listening to diverse voices describe how those models are experienced considering our changing realities. Through honest analysis of the past few centuries of missionary movement, Advancing Models of Mission provides hope for the future.
Aminta Arrington (PhD, Biola University) is an associate professor of intercultural studies at John Brown University in Siloam Springs, Arkansas. Aminta is the author of Songs of the Lisu Hills: Practicing Christianity in Southwest China.
Narry F. Santos (PhDs, Dallas Theological Seminary and University of the Philippines) is assistant professor of practical ministry and intercultural leadership at the seminary of Tyndale University and vice president of the Evangelical Missiological Society Canada. He is the author and editor of several books.
Advancing Models of Mission: Evaluating the Past and Looking to the Future - Paperback
$24.28
by Kenneth Nehrbass (Editor), Aminta Arrington (Editor), Narry Santos (Editor)
Weighing Approaches to Finish the Task
Christians have been reflecting on best practices for as long as they have been engaging in missions. Practitioners have developed diverse strategies to promote the spread of the Gospel--such as indigenous church planting, disciple-making movements, community development, dynamically equivalent Bible translations, and chronological Bible storytelling. These models began as creative analyses of the mission endeavor, in light of the current cultural context. As that context shifts, it is also important to critically re-examine these models. Advancing Models of Mission reflects on the missionaries and models of the past and reconsiders current models, all with the aim of looking toward the future of evangelical mission.
This compendium of thirteen essays tackles such timely and difficult questions as:
- How does globalization challenge the 10/40 window model?
- How does hybridity and diaspora change the way we think about people groupsand identity formation?
- How does the colonial history in Africa affect believers' connection with globalevangelism?
Readers can learn about the contexts of the past that shaped our current missiological models while listening to diverse voices describe how those models are experienced considering our changing realities. Through honest analysis of the past few centuries of missionary movement, Advancing Models of Mission provides hope for the future.
Author Biography
Kenneth Nehrbass (PhD, Biola University) has taught missiology at Liberty University, Biola University, and Belhaven University. He is an anthropology and translation consultant for the Summer Institute of Linguistics in the Pacific Area. He has authored or edited over sixty missiological publications, including Advanced Missiology (Cascade), God's Image and Global Cultures (Cascade), and Christianity and Animism in Melanesia (William Carey Library Press).
Aminta Arrington (PhD, Biola University) is an associate professor of intercultural studies at John Brown University in Siloam Springs, Arkansas. Aminta is the author of Songs of the Lisu Hills: Practicing Christianity in Southwest China.
Narry F. Santos (PhDs, Dallas Theological Seminary and University of the Philippines) is assistant professor of practical ministry and intercultural leadership at the seminary of Tyndale University and vice president of the Evangelical Missiological Society Canada. He is the author and editor of several books.
Number of Pages: 240
Dimensions: 0.51 x 9 x 6 IN
Publication Date: September 14, 2021
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