Langham Monographs imprint: 51 books
by Sunday Bobai Agang
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2011
This publication seeks to challenge established thinking about the causes of violence in Northern Nigeria. It explores immediate and long-term effects of that violence through reflection, study, and survey of previous research. The fundamental argument within is that ethnic, political and religious...
Context and Contextuality
The Mission of Migrant Churches with a Focus on the Pacific Coast Slavic Baptist Association
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
Since 1988, hundreds of thousands of evangelical Christians have migrated to the United States of America from former Soviet Union countries, establishing many Russian-speaking immigrant congregations across the country. This study analyzes how these immigrant churches function in their new cultural,...
Mission through Diaspora
The Case of the Chinese Church in the USA
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
The Chinese diaspora is well known for transnational economic activity, but less so for the impact of the diasporic Chinese church in the USA and elsewhere in the world. Surveying 652 US Chinese churches about their mission activities, along with interviews of a sub-set of respondents, Dr Wu provides...
From Land to Lands, from Eden to the Renewed Earth
A Christ-Centred Biblical Theology of the Promised Land
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
The land is an important theme in the Bible. It is a theme through which the whole biblical history found in the Old and New Testaments can be studied and analyzed. Looking at the land in the Bible from its beginnings in the garden of Eden this publication approaches the theme from three distinct...
Can God Save My Village?
A Theological Study of Identity among the Tribal People of North-East India with a Special Reference to the Kukis of Manipur
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
The introduction of Christianity by missionaries in North-East India, without ignoring the positive contribution, failed to provide a sound theological foundation for the people of this region in their quest for identity and liberation. In this publication, the author, a native of the region, investigates...
Bible Translation in Suriname
An Overview of its History, Translators, and Sources
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
The Republic of Suriname has a long and rich heritage of Bible translation spanning more than 250 years, yet very little has been published on its history. In this book Dr Franklin Jabini, a Surinamer as well as a translator himself, provides the reader with a detailed survey of the history of Bible...
Forgiveness and Politics
A Critical Appraisal
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Forgiveness and politics are often assumed, both ordinarily and academically, to be unrelated and un-relatable. This study not only argues that forgiveness and politics can be related, but also that they are intrinsically related. In making the case, this publication explores both the biblical foundations...
Heralds and Community
An Enquiry into Paul's Conception of Mission and Its Indebtedness to the Jesus-Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
This book is part of the ongoing debate about Paul’s understanding of the relationship between his own mission and the church’s. While this study endorses some previous scholarship on Paul’s silence about the church’s proactive evangelism in his letters, it argues that explanations for such...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
During the summer of 2010 Ghana played host to the first ever conference held within Africa to focus solely on the relationship of the African Christian and Islam. The event was led by John Azumah in partnership with the Center of Early African Theology. The conference, chaired by Archbishop John...
This Is True Grace
The Shaping of Social Behavioural Instructions by Theology in 1 Peter
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2016
How and in what respects are the Petrine social instructions shaped by the theological vision of the author of 1 Peter? This publication investigates the coherence between the social behavioural instructions and the theological teachings found in 1 Peter. Engaging with the Balch-Elliott debate, Dr...
Transforming Missiology
An Alternative Approach to Missiological Education
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
Dr Fohle Lygunda li-M provides a thorough analysis of missiological teaching in theological institutions in Africa, with special reference to ten Christian universities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. His detailed examination of current teaching of mission theory and practice builds a solid...
Our Politeuma Is in Heaven!
Paul's Polemical Engagement with the "Enemies of the Cross of Christ" in Philippians 3:18-20
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
For many of whom I often told you, and even now am writing with tears, walk as the enemies of the cross of Christ: they walk to their final destruction, their god is the belly and their glory is in shameful things, their minds are earthly bound. But our πολίτευμα is in heaven from where...
The Structure and Function of the Prologue of Judges
A Literary-Rhetorical Study of Judges 1:1–3:6
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
In this book, Yohannes Sahile tackles the problem of Judges’ prologue, proposing that it is a single introduction with a narrative trajectory that begins with the death of Joshua. The prologue captures how, during the period of testing, the generation after Joshua’s death failed in their commission...
Jesus’s Identification with the Marginalized and the Liminal
The Messianic Identity in Mark
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2018
The first-century Judaic understanding of the identity and nature of the Messiah has been a much-debated topic among biblical scholars and preachers alike. So too has the messianic identity and nature of Jesus himself. Bekele Deboch informs these debates with fresh evidence outside the traditional...