Evangelical Missiological Society

EMS Monograph Series

Conversion of Chinese Students in Korea to Evangelical Christianity: Factors, Process, and Types

Conversion of Chinese Students in Korea to Evangelical Christianity: Factors, Process, and Types Chang Seop Kang Currently, about 6 percent of the eighty thousand Chinese college students in Korea are Christians, certainly no small number considering their future role within the Chinese Church. In...

Trauma and Coping Mechanisms among Assemblies of God World Missionaries: Towards a Biblical Theory of Well-Being

Trauma and Coping Mechanisms among Assemblies of God World Missionaries: Towards a Biblical Theory of Well-Being Valerie A. Rance Trauma, from the fall of Adam and Eve forward impacts human lives in overpowering ways. A review of the lives of biblical personalities and missionaries reveals shared...

Being Missional, Becoming Missional: A Biblical-Theological Study of the Missional Conversion of the Church

Being Missional, Becoming Missional: A Biblical-Theological Study of the Missional Conversion of the Church Banseok Cho This book explores the theme of the missional conversion of the church, namely how the church is transformed toward its missionary vocation, from a biblical-theological...

Contextualization or Syncretism? The Use of Other-Faith Worship Forms in the Bible and in Insider Movements

Contextualization or Syncretism? The Use of Other-Faith Worship Forms in the Bible and in Insider Movements Derek Brotherson As Christians seek to follow Paul’s example of becoming like all people in order to win them to Christ, a key question arises: How far is too far? Is there a point where...

Narrative Identity: Transnational Practices of Pashtun Immigrants in the United States of America

Narrative Identity: Transnational Practices of Pashtun Immigrants in the United States of America Trevor Castor Narrative Identity is the product of seven years of research among Muslim immigrants living in America. This book will help you to understand the role that stories have in shaping how we...

A Theological Assessment of Reconciliation for Missiology in the Korean Context

A Theological Assessment of Reconciliation for Missiology in the Korean Context Hyo Seok Lim Any Christian who lives in such a broken world may ask God what their role would be as the person who is reconciled with God, and about the implications of the vertical dimension of reconciliation. Many...

Rise of French Laicite: French Secularism from the Reformation to the Twenty-first Century

Rise of French Laicite: French Secularism from the Reformation to the Twenty-first Century Stephen M. Davis Americans are often baffled by France’s general indifference to religion and laws forbidding religious symbols in public schools, full-face veils in public places, and even the interdiction of...

Experiencing the Gospel: An Examination of Muslim Conversion to Christianity in Cambodia

Experiencing the Gospel: An Examination of Muslim Conversion to Christianity in Cambodia Thomas W. Seckler In recent years, increasing numbers of people from Muslim backgrounds have become followers of Jesus. Some of these conversions have occurred in Cambodia. This book explores the experiences and...

China’s Ambassadors of Christ to the Nations: A Groundbreaking Survey

China’s Ambassadors of Christ to the Nations: A Groundbreaking Survey Tabor Laughlin Maybe you are familiar with the growth in recent decades of “majority world” missionaries being sent all over the world from non-Western countries (i.e., countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America, Middle East). This...

Factors Behind the Ukrainian Evangelical Missionary Surge from 1989 to 1999

Factors Behind the Ukrainian Evangelical Missionary Surge from 1989 to 1999 John Edward White Throughout its history, the Soviet Union was one of the most closed places in the world to missionary work. As perestroika came in the late 1980s and the Soviet Union fell in 1991, a spiritual vacuum formed...