Micah’s Challenge: The Church’s Responsibility to the Global Poor
Marijke Hoek and Justin Thacker, eds.
Milton Keynes: Paternoster, 2008

‘He has showed you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you? To act justly, to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God’ (Micah 6:8)

This book pulls together prophetic voices to explore the theological, ethical and practical dimensions of Micah’s challenge.

What people say about the book:

“Micah’s Challenge calls to us as Christians to live out the kindom values evident in our faith; to set free those captive to poverty, to release those bound by economic injustice and to proclaim the abundance of God’s creation for the tow-thirds world.”
John Sentamu,
Archbishop of York

“Micah’s Challenge does not simply provide a scriptural and theological basis for why global poverty is our responsibility. It equips us to act on these issues, challenging us to take seriously our part in this global campaign. Read it and expect to be changed!”
Tony P. Hall,
US Ambassador to the United Nations

The End of Memory: Remembering rightly in a Violent World
Miroslav Volf
Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co, 2006

Nicholas Wolterstorff (Yale University) writes about this book: “From many quarters in present-day society comes the cry, ‘Remember the wrongs done to you.’ Miroslav Volf agrees with that cry but cogently argues that remembering wrongs can be done wrongly. With great learning and deep humane wisdom he reflects on how we can rightly remember the wrongs done to us. In all of Volf’s writing, theology illuminates life and life illuminates theology. Here this two-way illumination is at its very brightest.”

Theology in the Context of World Christianity: How the Global Church is Influencing the Way We Think about and Discuss Theology
Timothy C. Tennent
Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2007

It is no secret that the centre of Christianity has shifted from the West to the global South and East. As the gospel penetrates new cultures and new situations, it must answer new questions and be restated in new ways.

While the truths of the Christian faith are timeless and universal, new contexts bring new understandings. What does all this mean for the discipline of theology? The underlying assumption of many is the normativity of Western theological formulation. Is this still a valid premise? Or is the Christian faith not only culturally translatable, but also theologically translatable?

Timothy Tennent answers this question with a resounding yes. Theological reflection is alive and well in the Majority World church and needs to be heard, considered, and brought into conversation with Western theologians – and not just among missionaries and missiologists.

The Rev Dr Christopher JH Wright writes about this book:
“… We have all sampled selections from the growing menu of theological reflection in the Majority World church, but so often these have been viewed by scholars and students in the West as the theological equivalent of ethnic restaurants – exotic and interesting but not to be taken too seriously in the dining hall of real (Western) theology.

"Meanwhile Philip Jenkins, Andrew Walls, Lamin Sanneh, and others have thrust the staggering realities of Majority World Christianity into the forefront of Western Christian consciousness. Theologians are now at last grappling with what missiologists have been saying for years: theology is a cross-cultural team game with global players. And the referee is no longer the Western academy, but the Scriptures themselves."

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