EMS Monograph Series

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Missiological Triage: A Framework for Integrating Theology and Social Sciences in Missiological Methods

Sarah Lunsford (Pickwick Publications, 2023) Most of what we do in missions can be categorized as our missiological methods. As important as our mission methods are, we usually look to the social sciences to guide us, as we seek to find effective and reproducible methods for sharing the gospel and planting churches cross-culturally. The lack …

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Book Titled The Present and Future of Evangelical Mission

The Present and Future of Evangelical Mission: Academy, Agency, Assembly, and Agora Perspectives from Canada

Gary V. Nelson (Pickwick Publications, 2022) Crisis is an invitation to both prophetic evaluation and new imagination. In this volume, Canadian missiologists and practitioners consider the past and how the past might enable the church to move forward in Christian mission–in the academy, agency, assembly, and the agora. How can the Canadian church welcome different

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Book Titled New and Old Horizons in the Orality Movement

New and Old Horizons in the Orality Movement: Expanding the Firm Foundations

Romerlito Macalinao (Pickwick Publications, 2022) Orality formed us. Orality forms us. Orality will forever form us. Orality is a central theme of our lives. In this fast-paced world, few Christian workers take the time to look back to learn and build on the lessons of the past. Wise Christian workers, however, do not forge ahead

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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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Understanding Burnout Recovery Among Native-Born Korean Missionaries

Hannah Kyong-Jin Cho (Pickwick Publications, 2020) In this timely book, Cho provides mission scholars, sending churches, and mission agencies with an understanding of Korean missionaries’ burnout recovery process. Her study of Korean missionary burnout recovery included thirty-nine research participants who had experienced burnout in missionary service and who subsequently recovered. Participants reported a variety of

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