EMS Monograph Series

Book Titled Conversion of Chinese Students in Korea to Evangelical Christianity

Conversion of Chinese Students in Korea to Evangelical Christianity: Factors, Process, and Types

Chang Seop Kang (Pickwick Publications, 2022) Currently, about 6 percent of the eighty thousand Chinese college students in Korea are Christians, certainly no small number considering their future role within the Chinese Church. In this study, Chang Seop Kang seeks to find out the factors, process, and types concerning the conversion of thirty Chinese international …

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Book Titled Trauma and Coping Mechanisms Among Assemblies of God World Missionaries

Trauma and Coping Mechanisms among Assemblies of God World Missionaries: Towards a Biblical Theory of Well-Being

Valerie A. Rance (Pickwick Publications, 2021) Trauma, from the fall of Adam and Eve forward impacts human lives in overpowering ways. A review of the lives of biblical personalities and missionaries reveals shared traumatic experiences. In addition to the stress of cultural adjustment, missionaries often live in contexts of violence, political unrest, economic instability, natural …

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Book Titled Being Missional, Becoming Missional

Being Missional, Becoming Missional: A Biblical-Theological Study of the Missional Conversion of the Church

Banseok Cho (Pickwick Publications, 2021) This book explores the theme of the missional conversion of the church, namely how the church is transformed toward its missionary vocation, from a biblical-theological perspective. The purpose of this book is to find biblically grounded, theologically sound, and practically applicable principles helpful for the church which seeks to be …

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Book Titled Contextualization or Syncretism? The Use of Other-Faith Worship Forms in the Bible and in Insider Movements

Contextualization or Syncretism? The Use of Other-Faith Worship Forms in the Bible and in Insider Movements

Derek Brotherson (Pickwick Publications, 2021) As Christians seek to follow Paul’s example of becoming like all people in order to win them to Christ, a key question arises: How far is too far? Is there a point where appropriate contextualization becomes gospel-distorting syncretism? With the growing prominence of Insider Movements in the Muslim-majority world in …

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Book Titled Narrative Identity: Transnational Practices of Pashtun Immigrants in the United States of America

Narrative Identity: Transnational Practices of Pashtun Immigrants in the United States of America

Trevor Castor (Pickwick Publications, 2021) Narrative Identity is the product of seven years of research among Muslim immigrants living in America. This book will help you to understand the role that stories have in shaping how we see the world, ourselves, and others by exploring the process of identity formation for one of the most …

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Book Titled A Theological Assessment of Reconciliation for Missiology in the Korean Context

A Theological Assessment of Reconciliation for Missiology in the Korean Context

Hyo Seok Lim (Pickwick Publications, 2021) Any Christian who lives in such a broken world may ask God what their role would be as the person who is reconciled with God, and about the implications of the vertical dimension of reconciliation. Many would agree that the vertical and horizontal dimensions of reconciliation should not be …

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Rise of French Laicite: French Secularism from the Reformation to the Twenty-first Century

Stephen M. Davis (Pickwick Publications, 2020) Americans are often baffled by France’s general indifference to religion and laws forbidding religious symbols in public schools, full-face veils in public places, and even the interdiction of burkinis on French beaches. An understanding of laïcité provides insight in beginning to understand France and its people. Laïcité has been …

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Experiencing the Gospel: An Examination of Muslim Conversion to Christianity in Cambodia

Thomas W. Seckler (Pickwick Publications, 2020) In recent years, increasing numbers of people from Muslim backgrounds have become followers of Jesus. Some of these conversions have occurred in Cambodia. This book explores the experiences and reflections of forty Cambodians from a Muslim background who have chosen to believe in and follow Jesus. It is based …

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China’s Ambassadors of Christ to the Nations: A Groundbreaking Survey

Tabor Laughlin (Pickwick Publications, 2020) Maybe you are familiar with the growth in recent decades of “majority world” missionaries being sent all over the world from non-Western countries (i.e., countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America, Middle East). This book focuses on missionaries sent from one non-Western country, analyzing the experiences of Chinese missionaries on the …

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Factors Behind the Ukrainian Evangelical Missionary Surge from 1989 to 1999

John Edward White (Pickwick Publications, 2020) Throughout its history, the Soviet Union was one of the most closed places in the world to missionary work. As perestroika came in the late 1980s and the Soviet Union fell in 1991, a spiritual vacuum formed as massive numbers of people became interested in Christianity. An unprecedented freedom …

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