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Regnum Books International
Holistic Mission Through Scholarly Engagement
J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu
Pentecostalism is the fastest growing stream of Christianity in the world. The real evidence for the significance of Pentecostalism lies in the actual churches they have built and the numbers they attract. In Africa, Pentecostalism has virtually become the representative face of Christianity with even historic mission denominations ‘pentecostalising’ their otherwise formal liturgical structures to survive. This work brings to a wider audience the insights and analysis from the author’s book, Contemporary Pentecostal Christianity: Interpretations from an African Context. It interprets key theological and missiological themes in Ghanaian Pentecostalism by using material from the live experiences of the movement itself.
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ISBN 978-1-913363-567
Paul Woods
The Asian church has begun to respond and reach out to migrants. However, this concern for the other is patchy and lacks robust theological foundations. This is an adaptation of the author’s major study, Theologising Migration: Otherness and Liminality in East Asia, using otherness and liminality as lenses to examine the scripture in order to understand God’s heart for migrants and the responsibility of His people towards them. It ends with some pointers towards concrete action by the church.
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ISBN 978-1-913363-659
Duane Miller
What are the challenges faced by Christ’s converts from Islam, and how can their Christian friends help them to overcome those challenges? In this book, Duane Miller draws on years of pastoral experience and academic research to propose practical resources and ideas that have proved successful in the past. This book is not a work of clinical counselling, but a resource ready to be read and applied by the experienced pastor as much as someone who is new to ministry among Muslim-background seekers and converts from Islam. Addressing topics from church history to baptism, and from finances to prayer, the book is being published at a time when the global Church is seeing unprecedented numbers of new disciples coming from Muslim backgrounds, and was written to help the Church in providing them with a new and welcoming home.
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ISBN 978-1-913363-765
Marina Ngursangzeli Behera and Jean-Daniel Plüss (Editors)
Today, more than ever, we are challenged to think on a larger scale and act in common pursuit with regard to social challenges, our convictions and public engagement. What bearing do these contexts have on our communication and practical action? How can we live responsively and remain faithful to our fundamental beliefs? The papers presented here suggest constructive answers.
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ISBN 978-1-913363-604
Bosela E Eale and Njoroge J Ngige
This volume offers constructive and contextual theological discussions that uphold Christian teaching and beliefs to promote a life with dignity in the African continent, based on practical theological beliefs. The authors discuss different thematic topics among which issues of health and healing that are pertinent in Africa and have perpetuated misleading theologies. The book also addresses issues of wealth and poverty in the context of faith which is critical in the context of misleading theologies. It articulates how prosperity gospel has propelled a paradigm shift in understanding material prosperity as a reflection of one’s faith, a blessing and poverty as lack of faith as well as a curse. The issue of personalization of power and authority in the contemporary emerging theologies that lead to misleading practices has been contrasted with power and authority from God that take into account the respect and dignity of human beings.
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ISBN 978-1-913363-796
Guichun Jun
This book is a systematic and comprehensive investigation into conflicts in a multicultural congregation in an urban area in the UK. It provides a comprehensive account of conflict through analysing and interpreting diverse types of conflict from a combined range of perspectives of anthropology, sociology and theology. It also profoundly explains the dynamics of conflict phenomena from a multidimensional perspective to understand the nature, scale and intensity of multifactorial and multifaceted conflicts in the four conflict domains: interpersonal behavioural conflict, cultural conflict, theological conflict and political conflict. The most significant contribution of this book is to establish a holistic model of handling diverse types of conflict for peace-making, peace-keeping and peacebuilding through employing conflict resolution, settlement, management and transformation in a multicultural congregational setting.
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ISBN 978-1-913363-734
Robert Oh
Patronage governs most relationships in Global South cultures. However, regrettably, missionaries rarely recognise this prominent cultural reality. Moreover, misunderstanding patronage creates problems not only for missionaries but also for national pastors. This book shows that when a patron plays a role as a father, he plays a significant role in developing national pastors as church planters and offers an alternative reading of aid dependency as a relational concept rather than an economic one.
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ISBN 978-1-913363-574
Benno van den Toren, Joseph Bosco Bangura and Richard E. Seed (Editors)
The contributions in the volume question the widespread thesis that Africa is ‘incurably religious’ by studying both the presence and meaning of secularization in sub-Saharan Africa and among the African diaspora. This exercise requires sustained interest in the notion of secularization itself. It explores whether the understanding of secularization will need to be challenged and enlarged to properly detect and understand the secularization processes in this continent that is known for its religious fervour. The essays in the first part focus on Africa’s cultural and religious traditions. Though the modern term of secularization cannot be uncritically applied here, the different authors argue that there are both signs and seeds of secularization present in Africa’s traditional worldview and practices. Essays in the second part study secularization in contemporary Africa, in for example, the world of higher education and the rise of neo-Pentecostalism. It also contains regional reports from both Africa and the African Diaspora. The final section explores what the reality of secularization in its various expressions means for Christian discipleship in contemporary Africa.
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ISBN 978-1-913363-796
