Mission Books
Speaking About What We Have Seen and Heard: Evangelism in Global Perspective
Selections from the International Bulletin of Missionary Research
This book offers readers a compilation of eleven articles from previous issues of the IBMR. Dr. Darrell Whiteman of The Mission Society, Norcross, Georgia, says of Speaking About What We Have Seen and Heard: "Provocative missiological debates and controversies are illumined, ancient patterns of conversion are laid alongside contemporary tools of evangelism, and the limits of the Christendom model are revealed in this collection that will make a lasting contribution to missiology. I heartily recommend it to missiologists and practitioners of mission."
OMSC Publications
167 pages, $19.95
Missions and Money: Affluence as a Missionary Problem . . . Revisited
Jonathan J. Bonk
This revised edition of Missions and Money offers
new reflections in the light of a changed situation in Christian missionary circles. Bonk offers new reflections in the light of a changed situation, now marked by increases in the number of short-term missioners and increases in the numbers of Asians, Africans, and Latin Americans leaving their homelands to serve as missionaries to other peoples.
The conversation on the ambiguity of wealth and Christian missionary outreach is deepened with essays by Christopher J. H. Wright on the righteous rich in the Hebrew Bible and by Justo Gonzalez on faith and wealth in the Christian Bible.
Revised and Expanded / Orbis Books
272 pages, $19.95
Between Past and Future: Evangelical
Mission Entering the Twenty-first
Century
Jonathan J. Bonk, editor
This volume traces its origins to the 2001 annual meeting of the Evangelical Missiological Society with the theme of "Lessons in Mission from the Twentieth Century." The papers from this meeting, combined with insightful essays by other EMS members, reflect upon the history of evangelical missions and upon its future. "Harvard philosopher George Santayana's oft quoted 'Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it' applies to missiology as well as it does to any other discipline. The past provides the foundation on which the present stands and the future will build. May God give us grace to draw from the lessons presented in this book in ways that will enrich us as people, as a church, and as a community calling others to come worship Jesus Christ."
A. Scott Moreau (from the foreword)
Evangelical Missiological Society Series, No. 10
William Carey Library
$14.99
Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions
Gerald H. Anderson, editor
This monumental work fills the gap in the research and documentation of Christian missions, spanning nearly 2,000 years of world history. Never before has there been such extensive and comprehensive coverage of Christian missions with 2,400 original signed biographies by 350 authors from 45 countries. In a convenient A-Z format, the Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions provides not only an authoritative record of outstanding persons in the missionary movement, but also a sweeping historical account of worldwide achievement and impact. Includes Appendix, Index, and Bibliographies. Included in the articles are:
Date and place of birth of the missionary, place of service, and religious affiliation
Writings and other achievements; development of the first dictionaries and grammars of non-Western languages; references to practices of indigenous peoples around the world from the earliest days of contact with Western culture
Increasingly important roles of the missions in European and North American regions and how they have moved outside the boundaries of Western colonialism with hundreds of new missions and thousands of new workers from Asia, Africa, South America, and Oceania.
Eerdmans Publishing Company
$19.95
Mission Legacies: Biographical Studies of Leaders of the Modern Missionary Movement
Gerald H. Anderson, Robert T. Coote, Norman A. Horner, and
James M. Phillips, editors
Now the very best of the International Bulletin of Missionary Research series "Mission Legacies" are gathered in this attractive, durable hardback from Orbis Books. Included are the founders and most prominent leaders of the Christian missionary movement from the late 18th century to the present: John R. Mott, Pope Pius XI, Ruth Rouse, William Carey, Francis X. Ford, Roland Allen, Hendrik Kraemer, Stephen Neill, E. Stanley Jones, Wilhelm Schmidt, Alan R. Tippett, Max Warren, Helen Barrett Montgomery, John Philip, David Livingstone, Charles Simeon, and many more. Authors of these biographical sketches are a veritable "who’s who" of church historians, including Dana Robert, Andrew F. Walls, Lesslie Newbigin, A. Christopher Smith, Eric J. Sharpe, and Jean-Paul Wiest. With biographical and bibliographic information available nowhere else, Mission Legacies belongs in every theological library and on the bookshelf of every student of world Christianity and mission.
Orbis Books
$19.95
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Art Books
Think on These Things: Harmony and Diversity
Wisnu Sasongko
"I paint what I can see, what I can touch, what I can feel—a utopia of love expressed in the reality of life. All of that inspires me in my artistic way," says Wisnu Sasongko, a graduate of the Faculty of Fine Art, Institut Seni Indonesia Yogyakarta. This book includes "All Dreams Connected," a 28-minute DVD about Sasongko and his art.
Includes a DVD / OMSC Publications
96 pages, $29.95
Christ on the Bangkok Road: The Art of Sawai Chinnawong
Sawai Chinnawong
Sawai Chinnawong, of Payap University, Chiang Mai, Thailand, is known for portraying Christianity through a Thai graphic idiom. Sawai is an ethnic Mon whose Buddhist ancestors migrated to Thailand from Myanmar. His drawings and paintings, inspired by traditional art from central Thailand, reflect a deep Christian faith.
OMSC Publications
80 pages, $19.95
Look Toward the Heavens
The Art of He Qi
He Qi
A noted contemporary Chinese Christian artist, He Qi is a professor at Nanjing Union Theological Seminary. He hopes to help change the "foreign image" of Christianity in China through his art and, at the same time, to supplement Chinese art the way Buddhist art did in ancient times.
OMSC Publications
128 pages, $19.95
A Time for My Singing
Witness
of a Life
Nalini Marcia Jayasuriya
"I come from a land of rich, ancient, and diverse cultures and traditions. While I carry the enriching influences of both West and East, I express myself through an Asian and Christian consciousness with respect for all confessions of religious faith," says Nalini Jayasuriya of Sri Lanka. Her book offers richly diverse and evocative expressions of faith from an Asian perspective. Her reminisces are included.
OMSC Publications
128 pages, $19.95
Archives Manuals
Rescuing the Memory of Our Peoples: Archives Manual
English version
Compiled by Martha Lund Smalley, Yale University Divinity School, New Haven, and Rosemary Seton, School of Oriental and African Studies, London.
International Association for Mission Studies
$10
Rescuing the Memory of Our Peoples: Archives Manual
French version
Compiled by Martha Lund Smalley, Yale University Divinity School, New Haven, and Rosemary Seton, School of Oriental and African Studies, London.
International Association for Mission Studies
$10
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