Mission to the World: Why Does God Elect a Particular People for His Redemptive...
Why does God work through a chosen people to bring salvation to the nations rather…
Victory in Christ: Biblical Reflections from a Puritan
In 1668, Richard Alleine—an English Puritan—published The World Conquered, a book that spells out how…
The Image of God and the Mission of the Church
Within the field of missiology in recent decades, many have concluded that the church’s mission…
Theology of Religions and the Uniqueness of the Family of Abraham
Some theologians have argued that God works redemptively within other religions—that is, that God brings…
Secure Foundations in an Insecure World: How Should We Face Hardship?
There are moments in life when we are tempted to believe that things are falling…
The Need for Pastors at Home to be Engaged with Missionary Work Abroad
Rufus Anderson, a famous missionary statesman from the 1800s, claimed that both pastors and missionaries…
HERMENEUTICAL COMMUNITY
Many Western initiatives exist for theological development in the majority world, but how often do practitioners from the West pause to examine the role they should play in that endeavor? Missions history and church history have revealed inadequacies of imposing foreign theology on local churches, yet the alternative of withdrawing from local theological development appears equally problematic. If, therefore, the outsider’s role is neither to impose theology nor withdraw from the task, then what is his or her role? Hermeneutical Community addresses this fundamental question and seeks to lay a sound missiological foundation for local theological development.