The Priesthood of All Students

Timothée Joset’s Priesthood of All Students is a welcome scholarly contribution to the missiological significance of student ministry in diverse contexts for the rapid expansion of global Christianity. I commend this book to all students of God’s mission in our generation and beyond.

Femi B. Adeleye, PhD
Executive Director,
Institute for Christian Impact, Ghana
Research Fellow,
Akrofi-Christaller Institute for Theology, Mission and Culture, Ghana

This book is a timely contribution as we celebrate seventy-five years of IFES ministry, since its formation in 1947. Timothée Joset comes up with a fresh, passionate, energetic, yet thoughtful review of the past seventy-five years. This book is a must-read for all leaders within IFES today and those involved in university ministry.

Michel Kenmogne, PhD
SIL International Executive Director

Based on intense archival research, Joset’s ambitious history of IFES is both theological and global. This useful study will stimulate further research into the important contribution of IFES in the making of worldwide, multi-cultural evangelical Christianity. I highly recommend it.

Dana L. Robert, PhD
William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor,
Director, Center for Global Christianity and Mission,
Boston University, Massachusetts, USA

Evangelical ministry within universities has been a crucial shaper of the contours of contemporary world Christianity, especially in disproving the false connection too often drawn between conservative theology and indifference to issues of social justice. Timothée Joset’s well-documented and theologically informed history of IFES will become a standard source for future researchers.

Brian Stanley, PhD
Professor of World Christianity,
University of Edinburgh, UK

In seventy-five years a remarkable movement of Christian mission to university students has swept across more than 165 countries. How did this come to be? Timothée Joset’s learned and deeply researched book traces the incipient power of belief in a priesthood exercised by students that can be personally and institutionally transformative. Every leader in IFES and world missions to university will benefit immensely from the rich insights and searching issues that this book brings into the presentand heralds for the future.

Terence Halliday, PhD
Emeritus Research Professor,
American Bar Foundation and Honourary Professor,
Australian National University, Australia

1. List of Abbreviations
2. Acknowledgments
3. Introduction
4. Part 1: A Selective Overview of the History of IFES
5. 1 Student Work before IFES (1800–1909)
6. 2 The Master Narrative of a Separation (1909–1935)
7. 3 Meeting for Conferences (1934–1946)
8. 4 It All Began in a Changing World (1946–1962)
9. 5 Good News for a World of Revolutions? The 1960s
10. 6 When the South Comes North: The 1970s
11. 7 Growing Partnerships: The 1980s
12. 8 A New World Map to Finish a Century: The 1990s
13. 9 IFES in a New Millennium
14. Part 2: IFES Activities
15. 10 The Practical Functioning of Student-Led Ministry
16. Part 3: Ecclesiological and Missiological Reflection in IFES
17. 11 A Firm Basis
18. 12 IFES Authors Discussing Ecclesiology
19. Part 4: Theological Resources
20. 13 The Priesthood of All Believers
21. 14 Dogmatic Reflections: Laypeople in the Church
22. 15 Missional Ecclesiology
23. 16 A Ministry of Expansion? Roland Allen’s Missiology and IFES Ministry
24. 17 Participation in the Missio Dei
25. 18 Apostolicity, Theology and Missionary Expansion
26. Part 5: Some Ways Ahead
27. 19 Student Ministry in the Light of the Priesthood of All Believers
28. 20 General Conclusion .
29. Appendixes
30. Appendix 1: Two Speeches That Changed Evangelicalism
31. Appendix 2: The IFES Doctrinal Basis
32. Appendix 3: Bibliology in the Doctrinal Basis
33. Bibliography