Ten Outstanding Books in Mission and World Christianity for 2018

The editor of the International Bulletin of Mission Research, after consultation with several distinguished scholars, has selected ten books published in 2018 for special recognition of their contribution to mission studies. I commend the authors, editors, and publishers represented here for their contribution to the advancement of scholarship in studies of mission and world Christianity.

Gitau, Wanjiru M.

Megachurch Christianity Reconsidered: Millennials and Social Change in African Perspective

Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic

Goheen, Michael W.

The Church and Its Vocation: Lesslie Newbigin’s Missionary Ecclesiology

Grand Rapids: Baker Academic

Ilo, Stan Chu

A Poor and Merciful Church: The Illuminative Ecclesiology of Pope Francis

Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books

Irvin, Dale T., and Peter C. Phan, eds. 

Christian Mission, Contextual Theology, Prophetic Dialogue: Essays in Honor of Stephen B. Bevans, SVD

Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books

Moreau, A. Scott

Contextualizing the Faith: A Holistic Approach

Grand Rapids: Baker Academic

Pachuau, Lalsangkima

World Christianity: A Historical and Theological Introduction

Nashville: Abingdon Press

Shaw, R. Daniel, and William R. Burrows, eds.

Traditional Ritual as Christian Worship: Dangerous Syncretism or Necessary Hybridity?

Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books

Stanley, Brian

Christianity in the Twentieth Century: A World History

Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press

Van Gelder, Craig, and Dwight J. Zscheile

Participating in God’s Mission: A Theological Missiology for the Church in America

Grand Rapids: Eerdmans

Wrogemann, Henning

Intercultural Theology. Vol. 2: Theologies of Mission

Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic