Ten Outstanding Books in Mission Studies,Intercultural Theology,and World Christianity for 2020

The editor of the International Bulletin of Mission Research, after consultation with several distinguished scholars, has selected ten books published in 2020 for special recognition. We commend the authors, editors, and publishers represented here for their contribution to the advancement of scholarship in mission studies, intercultural theology, and World Christianity.

Baker, Jonny, and Cathy Ross

Imagining Mission with John V. Taylor

London: SCM

Chow, Alexander, and Emma Wild-Wood

Ecumenism and Independency in World Christianity: Historical Studies in Honour of Brian Stanley

Leiden: Brill

Flett, John G., and Henning Wrogemann

Questions of Context: Reading a Century of German Mission Theology

Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic

Ireland, Daryl R.

John Song: Modern Chinese Christianity and the Making of a New Man

Waco, TX: Baylor University Press

Lefebure, Leo D.

Transforming Interreligious Relations: Catholic Responses to Religious Pluralism in the United States

Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books

Mugambi, Kyama M.

A Spirit of Revitalization: Urban Pentecostalism in Kenya

Waco, TX: Baylor University Press

Okesson, Gregg

A Public Missiology: How Local Churches Witness to a Complex World

Grand Rapids: Baker Academic

Shaw, Mark, and Wanjiru M. Gitau,

The Kingdom of God in Africa: A History of African Christianity

Carlisle, Cumbria, UK: Langham Global Library

Swartz, David R.

Facing West: American Evangelicals in an Age of World Christianity

Oxford: Oxford University Press

Turek, Lauren Frances

To Bring the Good News to All Nations: Evangelical Influence on Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Relations

Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press