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Redemption and Transformation Through Relief and Development: Biblical, Historical, and Contemporary Perspectives of God's Holistic Gospel
Wagner Kuhn
In this book, Wagner Kuhn provides a thoughtful study of the biblical view of life. He shows that the gospel is addressed to human beings in all their dimensions, needs, and potentialities and helps the reader to recover an understanding of the whole: the whole gospel, the whole person, the individual-in-community, and health care that takes account of the whole person.
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The Book and the Student: Theological Education as Mission. A Festschrift Honoring José Carlos Ramos
Wagner Kuhn
This Festschrift is being published to honor Dr. Jose Carlos Ramos. His more than thirty years of ministry dedicated to theological education is a legacy that has had great impact on the lives of his students, church members, and ministerial colleagues.
The title of this Festschrift, The Book and the Student: Theological Education as Mission, suggests that the ways the writers engage with the Bible and with challenging exegetical, theological and practical mission issues will determine the ways they will challenge or affirm how theology and ministry should be integrated for the fulfillment of God's mission in context and for His glory. -
A Man of Passionate Reflection: A Festschrift Honoring Jarald Whitehouse
Bruce L. Bauer
[e-book] A Man of Passionate Reflection: A Festschrift Honoring Jerald Whitehouse. This Festschrift is being published to honor Dr. Jerald Whitehouse who dedicated his life to building bridges of understanding between Seventh-day Adventists and Muslim peoples. It has been written by some of his students, friends, and colleagues as a tribute to your impact on their lives and ministries and to show their continuing commitment to share Christ in understandable ways with our Muslim brothers and sisters.
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Faith Development in Context: Presenting Christ in Creative Ways
Bruce L. Bauer
Faith Development in Context (FDIC) is a ministry approach based on the conviction that Muslims are commited to the God of Abraham are are truly seeking to know him. Those leading FDIC ministries believe that the Holy Spirit can lead Muslims on a pilgrimage tha will result movements developing from within Islam and in believers who have a biblical understanding of Isa Al Masiih. From January 17 to 21, 2005 over one hundred church leaders, missiologists, and theologians gathered at Andrews University to take a serious look at the many issues raised by the FDIC approach. Time was dedicated to prayer, study, discussion, reflection and listening to what the Holy Scripture was doing in through the various FDCIC ministries. This publication shares with a larger audience the papers and responses for that conference.
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Africa: Adventist Mission in Africa: Challenges & Prospect
Gorden R. Doss
The great continent of Africa plays a very significant role in global Christianity. A century ago African Christians constituted a tiny fraction of world Christianity but today Africa is a major player in the global faith.
Among Seventh-day Adventists, Africa occupies a significant place, having something over a third of the total world membership. The highest ratios of Seventh-day Adventists to the population are in parts of southern Africa. At the same time, other parts of Africa have only a miniscule Christian presence and the lowest ratios of Adventists to the population in the world. This contrasting picture of evangelization is set within the general context of major humanitarian need. How can the Adventist Church best fulfill the Great Commission in Africa? To address this main question the "Adventist Mission in Africa: Challenges and Prospects" conference met at Andrews University from October 19-21, 2007. Over a hundred administrators, academics, pastors, and lay people gathered for a time of dialogue and reflection. This volume contains the thoughtful papers presented.
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Working with the Poor: Selected Passages from Ellen G. White on Social Responsibility
Rudi Maier and Randy Warkentin
This compilation deals with a number of societal issues and provides several statements and counsels from Ellen G. White that can help churches to develop ministries to the whole person.
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Diversity: Challenges and Opportunities. Second Adventist Mission in Africa Conference
Bruce L. Bauer
"Diversity: Challenges and Opportunities" was the theme for the second Adventist Mission Conference held on the campus of Andrews University from October 155-18, 2009. Over a hundred African leaders, church administrators, seminary professors, students and professionals met to discuss and recommend solutions to the challenges of diversity on the African continent.
This book includes the papers and responses as well as the voted resolution, recommendations, and study questions to allow for wider access to the proceedings of conference. -
Comfort, Comfort My People: Towards a Growing Adventist-Jewish Friendship
Richard Elofer
The world Adventist-Jewish Friendship Center (WJFC) serves the world community with love and compassion, embracing God's call to "comfort my people" with a reconciling message of "hope, faith, and love". WJFC is one expression of the historic Adventist movement continuing the church's commitment to proclaim Bible truths to every person.
The Adventist Jewish Conference held in Jerusalem in February 6 to 12, 2006 was a historic event for for the Seventh-day Adventist Church. The Conference adopted a statement defining a wide range of relationships between the Seventh-day Adventist Church and Jewish people. This book presents the most important of papers presented and discussed on that occasion. -
Adventist Responses to Cross-Cultural Mission: Volume II
Bruce L. Bauer
The 1990 General Conference session voted to establish a mission initiative called Global Mission that challenged the Adventist Church to do mission where there had been few successes in the past, to work for those in the major world religions instead of largely winning people who were already Christians, and to enter unentered areas where there were few if any Adventists. Global Mission also established five religious study centers to pioneer new approaches for sharing the gospel with Buddhists, Muslims, Hindus, Jews, and secular/postmodern peoples.
The new approaches and challenges forced the Adventist Church to study and find solutions for many cross-cultural questions. In response to that challenge a yearly Global Mission Issues Committee was established where papers were read and recommendations made concerning current mission issues. Adventist Responses to Cross-Cultural Mission, Vol. II contains the Global Mission Issues Committee papers from 2002-2005. -
Adventist Responses to Cross-Cultural Mission: Volume I
Bruce L. Bauer
The 1990 General Conference session voted to establish a mission initiative called Global Mission that challenged the Adventist Church to do mission where there had been few successes in the past, to work for those in the major world religions instead of largely winning people who were already Christians, and to enter unentered areas where there were few if any Adventists. Global Mission also established five religious study centers to pioneer new approaches for sharing the gospel with Buddhists, Muslims, Hindus, Jews, and secular/postmodern peoples.
The new approaches and challenges forced the Adventist Church to study and find solutions for many cross-cultural questions. In response to that challenge a yearly Global Mission Issues Committee was established where papers were read and recommendations made concerning current mission issues. Adventist Responses to Cross-Cultural Mission, Vol. I contains the Global Mission Issues Committee papers from 1998-2001. -
A Man with a Vision. Mission: A Festschrift Honoring Russel L. Staples
Rudi Maier
[e-book] A Man with a Vision: Mission. This Festschrift is being published to honoring the 80th birthday of Dr. Russel L. Staples, a mission scholar, professor, mentor and colleague who has provided friendship and inspiration to many students who have become pastors and have gone missionaries around the world. This Festschrift has been written by some of his students, friends and colleagues who have seen his dedication and commitment to the cause of mission and the work of his church.
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Mission: A Man with a Vision: A Festchrift Honoring Russell L. Staples
Rudi Maier
Dr. Staples is a multi-talented and broadly experienced person. He operates as a pastor and preacher, churchman and administrator, scholar and teacher, theologian and missiologist, and specialist in Arminianism and Methodism. As seen by his colleagues, he is a person of wisdom and knowledge, balance and moderation, compassion and justice, integrity and forthrightness, clarity and articulateness, strength and even-temperedness, discipline and motivation, order and ease, commitment and spirituality, denominational conviction and ecumenical understanding, graciousness and urbanity, class and commonness. His depth and spirituality have deepened and broadened the faith of his peers, pupils, and parishioners.
Contributors to this Festschrift are some of Dr. Staples form students, colleagues, and friends. The editor fo the Festschrift is Rudi Maier, Associate Professor of World Mission at Andrews University. (back cover).
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Historical Foundations: Studies of Literary References to Hesban and Vicinity
Arthur J. Ferch, Malcolm B. Russell, and Werner K. Vyhmeister
"Historical contextualization is vitally important in attaining a view of Tell Hesban as its contemporaries described it. A spectrum of periods are analyzed from their contemporary literary sources: pre-classical and classical sources (Werner K. Vyhmeister), Arab sources (Malcolm B. Russell), a review of critical studies of Old Testament references to the site (Arthur J. Ferch), and traveller's accounts since 1806 (Werner K. Vyhmeister)." AU Press catalogue
