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Volume 29: Advancing Models of Mission: Evaluating the Past and Looking to the Future

Edited by: Kenneth Robert Nehrbass, Aminta Arrington, Narry Fajardo Santos (William Carey Publishing, 2021) 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,

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Volume 27: Against the Tide: Mission Amidst the Global Currents of Secularization

Edited by: W. Jay Moon and Craig Ott (William Carey Publishing, 2019) With increased globalization and modernization reaching into the furthest corners of the earth also comes the influence of secularization. These three tides of influence impact traditional religious beliefs, practices, and institutions in significant ways. Some modernizing societies see religion on the decline, while

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Volume 26: Majority World Theologies: Theologizing from Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Ends of the Earth

Edited by: Allen Yeh and TiteTiénou (William Carey, 2018) As Christianity’s center of gravity has shifted to the Majority World in the twenty-first century, many younger churches in Africa, Asia, and Latin America are now coming of age. With this maturing comes the ability to theologize for themselves, not simply to mimic what they have

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Volume 25: Churches on Mission: God’s Grace Abounding to the Nations

Edited by: Geoffrey Hartt, Christopher R. Little, and John Wang (William Carey, 2017) The twenty-first century is marked by a renewed emphasis on the missional responsibility of individual Christians and local churches. Churches on Mission: God’s Grace Abounding to the Nations is an attempt to explore the relationship between the local church and its missionary

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Volume 24: Controversies in Mission: Theology, People, and Practice of Mission in the 21st Century

Edited by Rochelle Cathcart Scheuermann and Edward L. Smither (William Carrey, 2016) Crossing social, cultural, and religious barriers and making disciples of all nations has probably never been without some level of controversy. This book is an attempt to hit the pause button on this rapid-paced world and to refllect on how we do mission,

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Volume 23: Diaspora Missiology: Reflections on Reaching the Scattered Peoples of the World

Edited by Michael Pocock and Enoch Wan (William Carey Library, 2015) For many years, cross-cultural missions were directed to people in the countries of their birth, generally in Majority World areas. Foreigners present among or around the intended focus of ministry were not viewed as part of mission ministry.  Diaspora missions focus on these peoples,

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Volume 22: The Missionary Family: Witness, Concerns, Care

Edited by Dwight P. Baker and Robert J. Priest (William Carey Library, 2014) The title of this book points to a feature—the missionary family—often considered to be a distinctive of the Protestant missionary movement.  Certainly the presence of missionary families in the field has been a central factor in enabling, configuring, and restricting Protestant missionary

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Volume 21: Missionary Methods: Research, Reflections, and Realities

Edited by Craig Ott and J. D. Payne (William Carey Library, 2013) One hundred years ago Roland Allen authored his landmark study Missionary Methods: St. Paul’s or Ours? The 2012 annual conference of the Evangelical Missiological Society celebrated this centennial by addressing this ever relevant topic. The present volume brings to readers insights from that

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