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Title: Paradigms in Conflict: 10 Key Questions in Christian Missions Today
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| Paradigms in Conflict: 10 Key Questions in Christian Missions Today by Kregel Publications Needed and Well Done |
Dr. Hesselgrave has tackled 10 of the key issues that have needed to be dealt with for some time in the missions world, and he has done it with great clarity and much wisdom. Dr. Hesselgrave is a gifted writer and has contributed much over the years for evangelicals to ponder concerning missions. However, this may be his best work to date. I highly recommend this book to anyone concerned with getting the Gospel of Christ to the Nations.
H. Edward Pruitt |
| Paradigms in Conflict: 10 Key Questions in Christian Missions Today by Kregel Publications Truth is Narrow and Old-Fashioned |
I think Waldron Scott has identified, not a weakness of Hesselgrave's book, but its key strength. It is the fact that the author comes to sound conclusions about each of the ten issues that makes this book a very welcome balance to many skewed modern conclusions of these ten crucial issues. Hesselgrave's Biblical hermenuetics are very well thought out with possibly only one or two exceptions. He's extensively well-read and has a mountain of experience behind him. Strongest of all: he's committed to a Biblical basis for mission as being fundamentally the only foundation we can stand on for any argument within the world of mission.
For more on how I felt about this text, check out Arukiyomi's blog at
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| Paradigms in Conflict: 10 Key Questions in Christian Missions Today by Kregel Publications Relevant, Provocative, Stimulating, Frustrating |
| This book engages ten of the more important missiological questions of our time. It is provocative because it goes against the grain of much contemporary thinking; and stimulating because it prompts to reader to clarify his or her own thoughts on the issues surfaced. Ultimately the book is frustrating because Hesselgrave, while purporting to present an objective duscussion, works from within a unbiblially narrow and freqently outdated frame, which the reader discerns early on,and thus invariably comes to predictable conclusions. Readers comfortable with a dispensationist hermeneutic will appreciate the book more than others. |
| Paradigms in Conflict: 10 Key Questions in Christian Missions Today by Kregel Publications Product Description |
| A prominent missiologist provides insight and guidance on the hot topics within Christian mission circles in this unique and timely discussion. Through the authoritative use of Scripture and drawing from the social sciences and history, David J. Hesselgrave tackles ten of the most pressing issues facing missionaries and students of missions today. In spite of the rapid changes taking place, Hesselgrave determines that much of traditional theory, practice, and theology is still valid, if not essential, for the future of Christian missions. |
