Between Past and Future
Jonathan J. Bonk is research professor of mission at Boston University and founding director emeritus of the Dictionary of African Christian Biography (www.dacb.org). He is executive director emeritus of the Overseas Ministries Study Center (www.omsc.org) where he served from 1997 until his retirement in July 2013. He was editor of the International Bulletin of Missionary Research (www.internationalbulletin.org) from July 1997 until June 2013. He has authored five books, has edited nine collaborative volumes, and published more than one hundred scholarly articles and book chapters and numerous reviews and editorials. His best-known book is Missions and Money: Affluence as a Western Missionary Problem. He is president of the Korean Global Mission Leadership Forum and has been actively involved with the KGMLF since it began in 2010. He and his wife are active members of the Fort Garry Mennonite Fellowship in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He was raised in Ethiopia by missionary parents.
Therefore, the contributors in this volume remind us of the past in ways that are helpful for evangelical mission in the present and future. From ecumenism to Pentecostalism, from activism to education, from the local church to William Carey, this book provides important missiological “bricks” with which the future will be built.
Evangelical Missiological Society- Book 10
Author Profiles
Foreword - A. Scott Moreau
Introduction - Jonathan J. Bonk
1. The AD 2000 Movement as a Great Commission Catalyst - Luis Bush
2. "It Can Be Done": The Impact of Modernity and Postmodernity on the Global Mission Plans of Churches and Agencies - Todd M. Johnson
3. Surprises of the Holy Spirit: How Pentecostalism Has Changed the Landscape of Modern Mission - Gary B. McGee
4. Lessons in Mission from the Twentieth Century: Conciliar Missions - Paul E. Pierson
5. Baptist Missions in the Twentieth Century - John Mark Terry
6. The Near Demise of the Domestic Mission in America in the Twentieth Century: Can We Learn Anything from It? - Charles L. Chaney
7. Between Past and Future: Non-Western Theological Education Entering the Twenty-first Century - Jonathan J. Bonk
8. Changing the Face of World Missions in the Twenty-first Century: A Fervent Appeal to the African-American Community for Effective Partnership in World Missions - John Moldovan
9. William Carey and the Business Model for Mission - Dwight P. Baker
10. A Survey of the Local Church's Involvement in Global/Local Outreach - Bruce K. Kamp
11. The Demographics of World Religions Entering the Twenty-first Century - Michael Jaffarian
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Jonathan J. Bonk
Jonathan J. Bonk
Jonathan J. Bonk is research professor of mission at Boston University and founding director emeritus of the Dictionary of African Christian Biography (www.dacb.org). He is executive director emeritus of the Overseas Ministries Study Center (www.omsc.org) where he served from 1997 until his retirement in July 2013. He was editor of the International Bulletin of Missionary Research (www.internationalbulletin.org) from July 1997 until June 2013. He has authored five books, has edited nine collaborative volumes, and published more than one hundred scholarly articles and book chapters and numerous reviews and editorials. His best-known book is Missions and Money: Affluence as a Western Missionary Problem. He is president of the Korean Global Mission Leadership Forum and has been actively involved with the KGMLF since it began in 2010. He and his wife are active members of the Fort Garry Mennonite Fellowship in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He was raised in Ethiopia by missionary parents.
- Pages: 270
- Publisher:
William Carey Publishing
William Carey Publishing
- Binding: Paperback
- Publish Year: 2002
- Vendor: William Carey Library
