African Hermeneutics
By Elizabeth Mburu
Interpretation of Scripture occurs within one s worldview and culture, which enhances our understanding and ability to apply Scripture in the world. However, few books address Bible interpretation from an African perspective and no other textbook uses the intercultural approach found here. This book brings both an awareness of how one s African context gives a lens to hermeneutics, but also how to interpret texts with integrity despite our cultural influences.
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Gloria!
By Abidemi Sanusi
Bishop Kwashi never expected to be father of over 300 children. But his wife Gloria wasn t expecting to have her home burnt down, all her belongings eaten by rats, or be savagely beaten and raped by men sent to murder her husband. A girl born in a ditch, she chose the name Gloria when she decided to follow the one born in a stable and dedicated her life to bringing him glory. Little did she know what that would involve!
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Integrated Mission
By Sarah Nicholl
Dr. Sarah Nicholl asserts spirituality, now often seen as an individual rather than communal endeavour, has been disconnected from the missional practices in the Lausanne movement. In bringing together missiology, mission practice and spirituality, she joins a chorus of scholars calling for more integration between areas of theory and practice. This book defines this synergy as integrated mission, and to illustrate what this mission can look like draws upon the writings and lives of four mission-oriented Christians.
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Silence in Translation
By Anna Sui Hluan
The role of women in the church has long been a contentious topic for Christians. In this groundbreaking study, Dr. Anna Sui Hluan critically examines the understanding of silence within the Myanmar context, specifically as it impacts the church s interpretation of 1 Corinthians 14:34 35. This interdisciplinary study combines cultural and linguistic awareness, a critical analysis of hermeneutics, and a deep commitment to Scripture as the foundation for faith and life.
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Translating Nephesh in the Psalms into Chinese
By Hui Er Yu
This interdisciplinary study tackles the controversy of translating nephesh ( ) by using an intergenerational translation team to deepen our understanding of this term and providing a more valuable translation in Chinese, especially for use in specialist Children s Bibles. This book provides important lessons for the many translation projects working towards Children s Bibles but also for how translation of biblical terms can be better reached through this intergenerational process.
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Perception and Identity
By Seblewengel Daniel
Ethiopia is an icon of freedom and indigenous Christianity across Africa due to its historic independence, ancient Christian identity and rich religious heritage. However, Ethiopia and its various Christian denominations have their own understandings of this identity and how these communities relate to one another. In this detailed study, Dr Seblewengel Daniel explores the perception and identity of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church and evangelical church in Ethiopia and examines the relations between the two.
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Brother Bakht Singh
By B. E. Bharathi Nuthalapati
Brother Bakht Singh, a Sikh convert was a foremost evangelist and Bible teacher in India, well known as a pioneer in gospel contextualization and proponent of indigenous churches. Nuthalapati analyzes how aspects of Indian religiosity, biblical and western Christianity were adopted, rejected, reinterpreted, or revolutionized.
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A Study of the Emergence and Early Development of Selected Protestant Chinese Churches in the Philippines
By Jean Uy Uayan
Uayan weaves the story of six churches in the Philippines into the local history of their individual settings. Uayan presents a rich and previously unacknowledged heritage and support from US mission organisations from 1898 1946. The seeds sown in Chinese communities across the Philippines resulted in indigenous churches that are bearing fruit in missionary activity in China. This is an important contribution towards a global church history.
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Children s Perceptions of the Role of Biblical Narratives in Their Spiritual Formation
By Annie George
In the Bible, storytelling is an important means to pass on the revelation of God. God repeatedly commanded Israel to tell his mighty acts to the next generation. Churches follow this mandate and use biblical narratives as a means to transmit God s self revelation to enable transformation. Dr George listens to the voices of children between the ages of 9 11 years to understand their perceptions of how storytelling of biblical narratives helps their spiritual formation.
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Faith-Integrated Being, Knowing, and Doing
By Sarinah Lo
In this holistic study of the integration of faith and learning, Dr. Sarinah Lo challenges the Western tendency to privilege knowing over being and doing. In the context of Indonesian higher education, Dr. Lo addresses the cognitive, affective, spiritual, relational, and vocational aspects of human nature. She demonstrates that effective integration of faith and learning must reach beyond the academic disciplines to address the formation of a Christian perspective in all areas of life, thought, and practice.
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Gender and Development
By Emily Awino Onyango
Dr Onyango uses gender as a tool to provide a detailed analysis of the role of Christian missions in the education, and societal development, of girls in Kenya. Highlighting the interaction between Christian missionaries and African culture, Onyango skilfully explores the history of both Christianity and women in Kenya. The result of this study is a thorough and engaging contribution to African Christian history that gives a voice to the history of African women.
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A Study of Current Leadership Styles in the North African Church
By Farida Sa di
Indigenous church leadership is a new phenomenon in North Africa. Until recently, non-Muslim background believers were the only leaders of churches in this region. With the current growth of national churches there are increasingly more leaders from a Muslim background leading to a diverse range of leadership styles. This publication explores church leadership in North Africa, investigates common values, beliefs and cultures among church leaders.
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Women in Mission
By Lami Rikwe Ibrahim Bakari
Women in Mission explores the powerful legacy of women in SIM (formerly, Sudan Interior Mission) and the Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA), demonstrating that from the beginning women have been active and essential participants in the work of God in Nigeria. Dr. Lami Rikwe Ibrahim Bakari examines various theological and cultural frameworks for understanding the role of women in society before delving into the rich historical reality of women s involvement in Nigerian church history.
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Mission through Diaspora
By Jeanne Wu
Surveying 652 US Chinese churches about their mission activities, along with interviews of a sub-set of respondents, Dr Wu provides analysis and explanation of mission activities using diaspora theories. The trend for Chinese diaspora church mission to take a Chinese first approach capitalizes on shared language, culture and transnational networks to advance the gospel. In this era of globalization, diaspora mission has never been so prescient.
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The Pharisees in Matthew 23 Reconsidered
By Seng Ja Layang
Layang defends and analyses the view that the actions of the Pharisees, and the condemnation they receive in Matthew 23 are consistent with the context of Jesus s time on earth. Layang tackles the dating controversy of the Pharisees in this chapter and the chapter's subsequent authenticity. An interesting and in-depth study that credits Matthew 23 as historically reliable and authoritative as part of the Word of God, giving a convincing counter-argument to recent critical thought.
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This Is True Grace
By Joyce Wai-Lan Sun
Sun investigates the coherence between the social behavioural instructions and the theological teachings found in 1 Peter. Engaging with the Balch-Elliott debate, she argues that the core question should not be whether Christians should separate from, or accommodate to, wider society, but whether their behaviour is consistent with their ultimate allegiance to God. Sun convincingly demonstrates that the social distinctiveness of Christian communities was encouraged as a form of cultural and spiritual opposition to wider societal norms.
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Paul s Viewpoint on God, Israel, and the Gentiles in Romans 9 11
By Xiaxia E. Xue
Over the years Romans 9 11 has been investigated from a variety of approaches, with one of the most prominent being an intertextual reading. However, most discussions of intertextual studies on this section of Romans fail to adequately address Paul s discourse patterns and that of his Jewish contemporaries with regard to God, Israel, and the Gentiles.
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By What Authority?
By Rebecca Ye-Atkinson
Hostile encounters between Jesus and Jewish leaders are found throughout the Gospel of Matthew. Yet these encounters are rarely explored holistically, nor is attention given to the reason for their prominence in the Matthean text. In By What Authority?, Dr Rebecca Ye-Atkinson examines seventeen distinct moments of conflict in the first gospel, exploring the function of each narrative in light of Matthew s overarching literary and theological purposes.
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The Power and Purpose of Blood in God s Design
By Cynthia Hsing-Wei Chang
How can Christians delve into the relationship between biblical law, narrative, and rituals to reconcile beliefs with cultural heritage? In this study, Dr. Cynthia Hsing-Wei Chang addresses the unfamiliar and impractical nature of Leviticus s ritual teachings for Christians, particularly in the context of Chinese culture s common practice of eating cooked blood pudding.
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Beyond Justice
By Varunaj Churnai
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The Laws of the Imperialized
By Chung Man Anna Lo
Using an integrated approach of postcolonial studies and historical-comparative analysis, this important study analyzes the relationship between the laws given to the Israelites on Mount Sinai and cuneiform law collections. Dr. Anna Lo skillfully integrates postcolonial understandings of the colonized people to explore how the similarities and differences reflect the imperialized authors wrestling with the imperial legal metanarrative and subjugation of their time.
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Post-mortem Divine Retribution
By Angukali Rotokha
While a Christian understanding of divine judgement tends to focus on the afterlife, the Hebrew Bible is far more concerned with divine retribution as something experienced in this life. Yet if the same God enacts both, should there not be significant continuity between biblical accounts of divine retribution, whether experienced in this world or the hereafter? In this study, Dr. Angukali Rotokha provides an overview of Old Testament and Second Temple sources that express conceptions of post-mortem judgement.
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Seeing the Face of God
By Puttagunta Satyavani
Scrutinising previous scholarship and based on careful exegesis of several crucial passages in the Pentateuch, this publication presents the motif seeing the face of God in an entirely new context of divine self-revelation.
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Theology of Reconciliation in the Context of Church Relations
By Rula Khoury Mansour
Built on an in-depth analysis of three Palestinian church splits, this text examines the cultural and theological implications of intra-church conflict in Arab evangelical communities in Israel. Translating Miroslav Volf s formative theology of reconciliation into her contemporary Palestinian context, Dr Mansour provides an evaluation of both Volf s theory and Palestinian peacemaking models. Through her research and analysis, she develops a Middle Eastern theology of reconciliation and encourages congregations around the world to develop greater cultural and theological awareness.
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The Evolution of Legislation on Religious Offences
By F. A. Nazir
Dr F. A. Nazir places the discussion of offences relating to religion in the historical context of the south Asian subcontinent, the institution of penal codes in British India during the colonial period, and developments in legislation after 1947 independence and the creation of the state of Pakistan and in postcolonialism. Nazir s thorough and rigorous historical research brings important understanding and reflection to contemporary religious laws, religious rights and multi-faith society in Pakistan.
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The Conversion of Igbo Christians to Islam
By Felicia Chinyere Priest
Often considered a Christian heartland in Nigeria, Igboland has recently seen a dramatic increase in Igbo Christians converting to Islam. Yet there has been minimal research into the growth of Islam in the area and the implications this has for Christianity in the region. Addressing this need, Dr Chinyere Felicia Priest provides a detailed exploration of Igbo converts reasons for conversion through skilful analysis of in-depth ethnographic interviews with thirty converts, considering their social, religious, and familial backgrounds.
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Lived Experiences of Ideologies in Contextual Islam
By Judy Wanjiru Wang ombe
There is a tendency within the study of Islam to prioritize religious ideology over the lived experiences of ordinary Muslims. While affirming the significance of such ideology, Dr. Judy Wanjiru Wang ombe suggests that it is equally important to understand how Islamic teachings are actually lived out within Muslim communities. Utilizing a cognitive anthropological framework and drawing from qualitative field data, this study examines the phenomenon of spirit possession as experienced by Borana Muslims in Marsabit County, Kenya.
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Interpersonal Reconciliation between Christians in a Shame-Oriented Culture
By Mano Emmanuel
In this Sri Lankan case study, Dr Mano Emmanuel examines the specifics of interpersonal conflict within a shame-oriented culture. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, she incorporates cultural anthropology, missiology, and communication studies into her analysis, identifying seven aspects of culture that must be addressed if reconciliation is to be fully experienced in the Sri Lankan church.
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Women and Pride
By Luping Huang
Dr Huang provides a thorough analysis and examination of both the Niebuhrian and feminist understandings of sin, highlighting the strengths and limitations of both arguments. Through her research and interaction with women s testimonies, Huang s argument bridges these two competing views of women and sin resulting in a more accurate understanding and application of the theology of sin, particularly in reference to women.
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Better than One
By Valeriia Chornobai and Viktoriia Hrytsenko
This book offers the reader a robust theological understanding of loneliness and identifies five different types of loneliness emotional, social, cultural, existential, and spiritual and illustrates each type through well-known biblical narratives. Chornobai and Hrytsenko aim to equip all those suffering from loneliness as well as those walking alongside them, whether pastors, counselors, or social workers to better understand the inner and outer factors impacting their experience and to find more effective strategies for coping and thriving.
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Thinking Biblically about Islam
By Ida Glaser and Hannah Kay
This book seeks to ground the readers thinking about Islam and their relationships with Muslims on a biblical foundation by giving them a framework for thinking about religions and for seeing where the Bible can be applied to Islam and Muslims.
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God, I m Angry!
By Maggie Low
Rev. Dr. Maggie Low debunks unhealthy assumptions about anger and forgiveness, laying the groundwork for a biblical understanding of righteous anger, conditional forgiveness, and unconditional love. Alongside profound theological insight, this book provides a step-by-step guide for application in pastoral counselling contexts and includes real life examples from Low s extensive ministry experience.
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Preaching That Comes Alive
By Maggie Low
Using real-life sermon examples from across Asia that reflect issues facing Asian Christians, Maggie Low builds a picture of a sermon as a body taking you step-by-step through guidelines for what this body needs to come alive. Whether you are a beginner or an experienced preacher, you will learn to preach more confidently and relevantly through this skilful integration of biblical theology, homiletical theory, spirituality, and communication skills.
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Blessing the Curse?
By Ksenija Magda
When it comes to women, the church has chosen often to live according to the structures of sin and death, offering them not the good news of Christ, but the curse of Genesis, as their inheritance. Ksenija Magda traces the impact of the curse and the temptation to choose the world and its power over the servant-hearted humility of Christ. The question of how we view, treat, oppress or empower women is not peripheral to the gospel but foundational.
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Global Kingdom, Global People
By Melba Padilla Maggay
This book gives a prophetic call to proclaim the good news and do justice in and towards every culture under the sun, while demystifying some of the major narratives that inform worldviews across the globe today. And it is the kingdom of God for every tribe, tongue, people and nation that brings true global unity not globalization.
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Unashamed Servant-Leadership
By Rachel Rajagopal
Dr Rajagopal s rigorous examination of the Asian social, cultural and theological context in relation to women in Christian leadership builds a strong platform for their stories from across Asia to resound off the pages of this book. This thorough study not only illuminates the Asian context but is eminently transferable to other parts of the Majority World and the West in pursuit of releasing women into their gifting from God.
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Cours d'h breu biblique
By Eliette Randrianaivo
Ce livre est destine a former des e tudiants de premie re anne e en the ologie. L auteur a cre e ce manuel a partir des cours dispense s par les professeurs Henri Blocher et Bernard Huck. Elle l a enseigne pendant cinq anne es conse cutives a Antananarivo Madagascar, a l Institut Supe rieur de The ologie Evange lique (ISTE). Les 47 lec ons sont organise es autour de re gles, d exercices ainsi que de vocabulaire a apprendre et permettent ainsi aux e tudiants d acque rir une bonne base de grammaire.
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Job
By Mona P. Bias
The book of Job engages with the issue of pain and suffering. Job asked the same question that we have probably asked a hundred times why do the righteous suffer? In his pain, he decided to file a case against God, but he rescinded in a moment of truth. He realized God s purpose for allowing pain was to have a deeper experience of the living God. This commentary expounds and explains how one can see a good God in the midst of life s sufferings.
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Ruth
By Havilah Dharamraj
This commentary presents the book of Ruth through a uniquely Asian lens that helps bring out the nuances of this Old Testament text that are often missed or misunderstood. The deep and skillful exegesis presented will satisfy a scholarly reader, yet the language used is accessible enough for lay preachers and teachers to understand, appreciate, and use.
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Judges
By Athena E. Gorospe and Charles R. Ringma
The book of Judges marks an important transition in the life of Israel. This commentary seeks to help readers navigate the many strange stories and characters of Judges by providing an overall framework for reading it and by explaining a way of entering its stories so that that they can be appropriated in an Asian context.
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Jonah
By Rosa Ching Shao
Dr. Rosa Shao beautifully weaves together the story of the biblical text with narratives from the Asian (Chinese and Filipino) contexts and psychological insights. Testifying to how she was drawn to the book, Dr. Shao shares how this book has impacted her personally and demonstrates how others can hear the book s message in their own context. From better understanding the story of Jonah, readers will gain valuable insight for discerning God s divine call on their own lives.
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Exodus
By Chloe T. Sun
The poignant narrative of Exodus, which involves leaving one s homeland, traveling, settling, unsettling, wrestling with identity, seeking a home, and pursuing aspirations, resonates with the present circumstances of the Chinese diaspora. This commentary delves into the concept of exodus, tracing its roots from the biblical exodus to its modern manifestation in the Chinese diaspora the new exodus.
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Matthew
By Samson L. Uytanlet and Kiem-Kiok Kwa
The Great Commission is yet to be fulfilled. Asian churches, like Matthew s original audience, are encountering various challenges as they obey Jesus last command in the First Gospel. The promise of the presence of God accompanies Jesus command and in Matthew s narrative God s presence is seen powerfully in Jesus life. Believers today can hold to the same promise, and this promise should be an encouragement to continue preaching God s kingdom.
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The Bible and Other Faiths
By Ida Glaser
In today s world, when Christians think about other religions, numerous questions and issues arise - and their convictions about Christ and about other religions can have a significant influence on their understanding of how God relates to people, and what their own conduct towards them should be. From her wealth of inter-cultural and inter-faith experience, Ida Glaser believes that the most urgent questions for Christians focus on their own responsibilities and other people s welfare.
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The Seed and the Soil
By Pauline Hoggarth
The Seed and the Soil explores the power of the Bible that brings about God s transforming and liberating purposes, as well as its power as an often oppressively misused text. Characterised by a wide variety of storytelling, this book is accessible to all that read it.
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Building the Whole Church
By Jessy Jaison
Engaging qualitative research from South Asia, Dr. Jessy Jaison demonstrates that both formal and non-formal approaches to theological training can support the church s missional calling. Not only will readers be introduced to theological education in the the South Asian context, they will also benefit from the practical and collaborative model demonstrated and how they can revitalize the process in supporting the church in its mission.
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Empowering Voices
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Bringing together contributions from scholars across Africa, this book explores the challenges faced by African women theologians, from biased theological education to exclusionary practices in academia. Through a series of consultations and collaborative efforts, this book presents a balanced express of African evangelical theology and advocates for gender equity in theological institutions, emphasizing the importance of female leadership in shaping future generations of Christian leaders, and empowering women to become change-makers in their communities.
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The Motif of Hospitality in Theological Education
By Davina Hui Leng Soh
This book provides an integrated biblical, theological, and educational rationale to in- form theological educators of the place of hospitality in enhancing their quest to create more effective learning environments for the holistic formation of students. Dr Davina Soh explores key elements of hospitality such as inclusion, presence, care, and reciprocity, which when combined, can deliver the best possible educational experience for theological students and transform an entire institution.
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