A necessary task of missionaries in recent decades has been to help local Christians"
inculturate" or" contextualize" their faith, although the criteria for doing so often came from …

Christianity Today's 2017 Book of the Year Award of Merit-Missions/Global Church Amidst
the variegated spread of global Christianity, followers of Jesus are showing up in …

2018 Sally and Ken Owens Award from the Western History Association Twelve companies
of American missionaries were sent to the Hawaiian Islands between 1819 and 1848 with …

In the past decade, there has been an explosion of research that uses insights from
migration studies as a way of understanding various shifts in global Christianity. As a result …

This article explores how the use of biblical metaphors for salvation can be a significant aid
in communication of the gospel. Metaphor is a powerful communicative tool that not only …

There are, in my opinion, few issues as important within missiological circles these days as
theological understanding, clarity, and creativity regarding the nature of the church. The …

Using the idiomatic expression found in the United States, this essay contends that the
current field of missiology is black-ish. The expression is used to describe something …

This article is a historical study of alternative contextual evangelism models to Intau (means
“person”) Bolaang Mongondow, which is communally called tribe or society (ethnic …

For a church to be considered mature an integrated approach between contextualization,
discipleship and mission is required. Globally, the church is facing multiple challenges both …

Beginning with Tippett's emphasis on the “phenomenology of Folk Religion” in the mid-
1960s, contextualization, though not so-called at the time, was central to appreciating the …