Communicating God's Word in a Complex World: God's Truth or Hocus Pocus?

Communicating God's Word in a Complex World reaches out to the growing number of missionaries, pastors, Bible translators and teachers, mission and theological educators and students dealing with communicating the gospel. This is increasingly difficult in today's pluralist and global contexts. What was God's message, and how has spreading that message changed through the generations? The answer to that question requires a hermeneutical process that seeks to understand the biblical text and the context in which it was originally presented. R. Daniel Shaw and Charles Van Engen say that contemporary proclaimers of God's word can model their approach after that of the writers of scripture, who reinterpreted and restated their received texts for their audiences. Thus, Gospel communication is impacted by the way humans know God. This, in turn, is informed by contexts. Communicating God's Word in a Complex World draws lessons from the biblical authors themselves as a guide for how best to present God's message.

Religion & Spirituality

R. Daniel Shaw

Charles E. Van Engen

Christian Books & Bibles

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

An evangelical authority on church mission encounters the issues and content of tomorrow's missions theology in a series of essays.

Mission on the Way: Issues in Mission Theology

Baker Academic

Announcing the Kingdom provides a comprehensive survey of the biblical foundation of mission. It investigates the development of the kingdom of God theme in the Old Testament, describing what the concept tells us about God's mission in creation, the flood, and the covenant with Abraham. It then describes God's mission through the nation of Israel during the exodus, at Mt. Sinai, and through the kings of Israel. The book then examines God's mission as Israel is sent into exile and the stage is set for the Messiah's coming. Finally, the book considers the fulfillment of the kingdom of God through Jesus Christ and the church. It examines Jesus' parables and ministry, his proclamation of God's kingdom among the nations, and the work of the Holy Spirit through the church. Announcing the Kingdom is the product of Arthur Glasser's more than thirty years of teaching and has been used by thousands of students at Fuller Theological Seminary. Now revised by Glasser's colleagues, this study provides mission workers and students with a new understanding of their calling and its biblical foundation.

Announcing the Kingdom: The Story of God's Mission in the Bible

DEan S. Gilliland

Arthur F. Glasser

Shawn B. Redford

This work discerns the most important intercultural patterns and paradigm shifts as the Christian movment matures beyond post-colonialism as a world religion. It does this while bringing into relief the work of antropologist and linguist Charles H. Kraft and the challenges the future presents to those following after him.

Paradigm Shifts in Christian Witness: Insights from Anthropology, Communication, and Spiritual Power

History

World

Orbis Books

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Books by Charles E. Van Engen