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Originally published: Phillipsburg, N.J. : Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing, \u00a91960.\r\nIncludes bibliographical references (pages 311-323).\n\nPublished in: PHILIP\n\nPhysical description: xxi, 323 pages ; 22 cm","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"And the word came with power : how God met & changed a people forever \/ Joanne Shetler with Patricia Purvis.","author":"Shetler, J.; Purvis, P.A","isbn":"0880704756","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Multnomah Press"},"datePublished":null,"inLanguage":"English","description":"Published in: Portland, Or.\n\nPhysical description: 164 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"Bremen missionaries in Togo and Ghana : 1847-1900 \/ by Werner Ustorf ; translated by James C.G. Greig.","author":"Ustorf, W.; Greig, James C. G.","isbn":"996478290X","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Legon Theological Studies Series"},"datePublished":"2002","inLanguage":"English","description":"Includes bibliographical references (pages 502-512) and index.\n\nPublished in: LEGON, GHANA\n\nPhysical description: viii, 520 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"Christianity encountering world religions : the practice of mission in the twenty-first century \/ Terry Muck, Frances Adeney.","author":"Muck, Terry C.; Adeney, Frances S.","isbn":"9780801026607","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Baker Academic"},"datePublished":"2009","inLanguage":"English","description":"Contents: \t\r\npt. 1. Context, text and pre-texts -- Context: the world of religion today -- Text: what the Bible says -- Pre-texts: theology and personality -- pt. 2. Practices: Beyond competition and cooperation -- Universality: reaching out to all, including Christians -- Fellowship: Belonging precedes believing -- Localization: focusing on questions and concerns of the local community -- Commitment: holding ideas with conviction; acting decisively on those ideas; not letting those ideas be divisive -- Freedom: honoring the principle of religious choice -- Effectiveness: allowing the context to determine the form of witness -- Consistency: striving for consistency between methods and goals -- Variety: communicating the Gospel in many forms -- Respect: not disparaging others in order to champion your own; not disparaging your own in order to respect others -- Charity: loving those to whom we witness -- Missional ecumenicity: practicing mission as the joint project of the church -- Jesus, mission innovator: Jesus's model of giftive mission -- pt. 3. Method: how do we do it -- The spiral of knowledge acquisition: learning about new cultures and new religions -- Experiencing: the influence of our personal histories -- Bracketing: putting convictions on hold -- Encountering: learning from a new culture and religion -- Evaluating: appraising the new culture and religion from a Christian viewpoint -- Integrating : reshaping our own views and mission practices -- pt. 4. Giftive Mission -- Metaphors for mission -- The four gifts -- Giftive misssion -- Appendix. Biblical interreligious encounters.\r\n\r\nAbstract: \t\r\nGiven the unique religious climate of the twenty-first century and the challenges to Christian missions it poses, Christianity Encountering World Religions proposes a new model for interacting with people of other faiths. The authors term this model \"giftive mission,\" since it is based on the metaphor of a free gift. They suggest that seeing mission activity as giving the greatest gift possible-- the gospel message-- not only has the potential for greater missionary success but also enables us to imitate more closely God's gracious activity in the world - from back of the book.\n\nPublished in: Grand Rapids, Mich.\n\nPhysical description: 407 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":5,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"Church history in plain language \/ Bruce L. Shelley ; [foreword by Scott A. Wenig].","author":"Shelley, Bruce L.","isbn":"9781418530051","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Thomas Nelson"},"datePublished":"2008","inLanguage":"English","description":"The age of Jesus and the apostles, 6 BC -- AD 70 -- 1. Away with the King : the Jesus movement -- 2. Wineskins : old and new : the gospel to the Gentiles -- The age of catholic Christianity, 70 -- 312 -- 3. Only worthless people : Catholic Christianity -- 4. If the Tiber floods : the persecution of Christians -- 5. Arguing about the event : the rise of orthodoxy -- 6. The rule of books : the formation of the Bible -- 7. The school for sinners : the power of bishops -- 8. Apostles to intellectuals : the Alexandrians -- The age of the Christian Roman empire, 312 -- 590 -- 9. Laying her sceptre down : the conversion of the empire -- 10. Splitting important hairs : the doctrine of the Trinity -- 11. Emmanuel! : Christ in the creeds -- 12. Exiles from life : the beginnings of monasticism -- 13. The sage of the ages : Augustine -- 14. Peter as 'pontifex maximus' : the beginnings of the papacy -- 15. Somewhere between heaven and earth : Eastern Orthodoxy -- 16. Bending the necks of victors : mission to the barbarians -- The Christian Middle Ages, 590 -- 1517 -- 17. God's consul : Gregory the Great -- 18. The search for unity : Charlemagne and Christendom -- 19. Lifted in a mystic manner : the papacy and the crusader -- 20. The nectar of learning : scholasticism -- 21. A song to Lady Poverty : the apostolic life-style -- 22. Sleeping men and the law of necessity : the decline of the papacy -- 23. Judgment in the process of time : Wyclif and Hus -- The age of Reformation, 1517 -- 1648 -- 24. A wild boar in the vineyard : Martin Luther and Protestantism -- 25. Radical discipleship : The Anabaptists -- 26. Thrust into the game : John Calvin -- 27. The curse upon the crown : the Church of England -- 28. 'Another man' at Manresa : the Catholic Reformation -- 29. Opening the rock : America and Asia -- 30. The rule of the saints : Puritanism -- 31. Unwilling to die for an old idea : denominations -- The age of reason and revival, 1648 -- 1789 -- 32. Aiming at the foundations : the cult of reason -- 33. The heart and its reasons : Pascal and the Pietists -- 34. A brand from the burning : Wesley and Methodism -- 35. A new order of the ages : the Great Awakening -- The age of progress, 1789 -- 1914 -- 36. The restoration of fortresses : Catholicism in the age of progress -- 37. A new social frontier : nineteenth-century England -- 38. To earth's remotest people : Protestant missions -- 39. The destiny of a nation : a Christian America -- 40. A bridge for intelligent moderns : Protestant liberalism -- 41. Nothing to lose but chains : the social crisis -- The age of ideologies, 1914- -- 42. Graffiti on a wall of shame : twentieth-century ideologies -- 43. Rootless immigrants in a sick society : American Evangelicals -- 44. New creeds for breakfast : the ecumenical movement -- 45. The medicine of mercy : Roman Catholicism : Vatican II -- 46. Time for a reverse flow : Christianity in the Third World -- 47. Politics is a noble calling : Christianity in America's me generation -- 48. The global village : Christianity on the world scene -- 49. Winds from afar : Christianity at the birth of the third millenn\n\nPublished in: Nashville, Tenn.\n\nPhysical description: 532P","bookEdition":"3RD EDITN","offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":6,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"Church planting in the African-American community \/ Joe S. Ratliff and Michael J. Cox.","author":"Ratliff, Joe S.; Cox, M.J.","isbn":"0805460713","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Broadman Press"},"datePublished":"1993","inLanguage":"English","description":"Includes bibliographical references (pages 109-111).\n\nPublished in: Nashville, Tenn.\n\nPhysical description: 111 pages ; 21 cm","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":7,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"Classic sermons on world evangelism \/ compiled by Warren W. Wiersbe.","author":"Wiersbe, W.W.","isbn":"0825440882","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Kregel Publications"},"datePublished":"1999","inLanguage":"English","description":"Kregel classic sermons series\n\nPublished in: Grand Rapids, Mich.\n\nPhysical description: 155 pages ; 22 cm.","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":8,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"Daughters of Islam : building bridges with Muslim women \/ Miriam Adeney.","author":"Adeney, Miriam","isbn":"083082345X","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"InterVarsity Press"},"datePublished":"2002","inLanguage":"English","description":"Contents: \tPreface -- Why Muslim Women Come to Christ -- Every Woman Is an Exception -- Arab Sisters -- What Is Liberation for Muslim Women? -- Iranian Sisters -- Family : Sex, Singles, Husbands, Children -- Southeast Asian Sisters -- Singing Our Theology -- African Sisters -- Money Matters : Who Pays? -- When You Seek Me with All Your Heart -- Notes.\r\n\r\nAbstract: \tMiriam Adeney introduces you to women such as Ladan, Khadija, Fatma and others from around the world. You'll learn about their lives, questions and hopes. And you'll gain new understanding of why Muslim women come to Christ.--From publisher's description.\n\nPublished in: Downers Grove, Ill.\n\nPhysical description: 224 pages ; 21 cm.","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":9,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"Decision making & the will of God : a Biblical alternative to the traditional view \/ Garry Friesen, with J. Robin Maxson.","author":"Friesen, G.; Maxson, J. R.","isbn":"0880700246","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Multnomah Press"},"datePublished":"1980","inLanguage":"English","description":"Introduction : Is it worth another look? -- Part 1. You have heard it said : the traditional view presented. On marriage and missions -- Hitting the bull's eye -- Reading the road signs -- Letting the umpire rule -- Part 2. The case of the missing \"dot\" : the traditional view critiqued. Does God have three wills? -- Does scripture teach the \"dot\"? -- More doubts about the \"dot\" -- Impressions are impressions -- Part 3. The way of wisdom : the wisdom view explained. Thy Word is truth -- Free to choose -- Competent to choose -- God only wise -- God's sovereign will and decision making -- Guidance : a biblical model -- Guidance is personal -- Making a good thing better -- Part 4. Deciding the big ones : the wisdom view applied. Singleness, marriage, and wisdom -- Marriage and wisdom -- The ministry and wisdom -- Missions and wisdom -- Vocation, education, and wisdom -- Giving and wisdom -- Wisdom when Christians differ -- Weaker brothers, Pharisees, and servants -- Conclusion.\n\nPublished in: Portland, Or.\n\nPhysical description: 452 pages ; 23 cm","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":10,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"Developing a strategy for missions : a biblical, historical, and cultural introduction \/ John Mark Terry, J.D. Payne.","author":"Terry, John Mark; Payne, Jervis, David","isbn":"9780801039539","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Baker Academic, a division of Baker Publishing Group"},"datePublished":"2013","inLanguage":"English","description":"Contents: \tStrategy defined -- The crafting of mission strategy -- Contemporary objections to missionary strategy -- Strategic planning in biblical perspective -- Missiological principles for strategy development -- The apostle Paul's missionary strategy -- Missions strategy in the early church -- Roman Catholic strategy -- Pioneer Protestant strategies -- Faith missions strategy -- Mission strategies on the American frontier -- The indigenous mission strategy -- The church growth movement -- Frontier strategies -- Contextualization strategies -- Understanding cultural research -- Developing a people-group profile -- Developing a communication strategy -- Discerning receptivity -- Discerning need -- Visioning for the future -- Forming a team -- Assessing the resources -- Setting goals -- Choosing appropriate methods -- Execution -- Evaluation.\r\n\r\nAbstract: \t\"In this addition to the highly acclaimed Encountering Mission series, two leading missionary scholars offer an up-to-date discussion of missionary strategy that is designed for a global audience. The authors focus on the biblical, missiological, historical, cultural, and practical issues that inform and guide the development of an effective missions strategy. The book includes all the features that have made other series volumes useful classroom tools, such as figures, sidebars, and case studies. Students of global or domestic mission work and mission practitioners will value this new resource\"--Publisher description.\r\n\r\nOther Notes \tIncludes bibliographical references (pages 269-275) and indexes.\n\nPublished in: Grand Rapids, Michigan\n\nPhysical description: x, 287 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}}]}