World mission in the Wesleyan spirit
By: edited by Darrell L. Whiteman and Gerald H. Anderson ; foreword by David B. Barrett
Series: American Society of Missiology series -- no. 44; American Society of Missiology series -- no. 44.
Publisher: Seedbed
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Franklin, Tenn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9781628240832; 9781628240849; 9781628240856; 9781628240863
Subjects: Missions; Methodist Church; Theory
Description: World Mission in the Wesleyan Spirit documents how Wesleyan mission has been understood and practiced from biblical, theological, historical, cultural, and strategic perspectives.--From publisher description.
Notes: Originally published: Franklin, Tenn. : Providence House Publishers, c2009.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1:; title: Biblical perspectives.; title: Jesus as paradigm : an Asian perspective  -- Daniel C. Arichea Jr.; title: Contextualization in a Wesleyan spirit : a case study of Acts 15  -- Dean Flemming; title: When God sends a missionary : the prophet Jonah  -- Sandra Richter -- pt. 2:; title: Theological perspectives.; title: Prevenient grace in world mission  -- Gerald H. Anderson; title: "The world our parish" : Christian mission and the Wesleyan heritage in a Ghanaian context  -- Robert Aboagye-Mensah; title: The missional flavor of John Wesley's theology  -- Howard A. Snyder; title: Methodism, mission, and the market state  -- William J. Abraham; title: The challenges of John Wesley's theology in Latin American mission contexts  -- Luís Wesley de Souza; title: John Wesley's eighteenth-century contributions to the twenty-first-century theology of religions  -- Terry C. Muck; title: Wesley's "Catholic spirit" and global Christianity  -- Timothy C. Tennent; title: God at work in the world -- Robert G. Tuttle Jr.; title: pt. 3:; title: Historical perspectives.; title: Innovation and consolidation in American Methodist mission history  -- Dana L. Robert; title: World parish to world church : John and Charles Wesley on home and overseas mission  -- Andrew F. Walls; title: The mission-church paradigm of the Wesleyan revival  -- Paul W. Chilcote; title: Movement and institution in Methodist missions : the case of Clara Swain Hospital in Bareilly, India  -- Arun W. Jones; title: Sum of the parts : the legacy of J. Waskom Pickett  -- Arthur G. McPhee; title: "If we live, we live, and if we die, we die" : Polynesian missionaries in Papua New Guinea  -- Michael A. Rynkiewich; title: Thomas Birch Freeman : the most famous Wesleyan missionary of West Africa you have never heard of  -- Michael Mozley; title: Historical perspectives of the Mission Society -- H.T. Maclin; title: pt. 4:; title: Cultural perspectives.; title: Wesleyan synergism and the dialogue with Muslims  -- A.H. Mathias Zahniser; title: Wesley's small groups as keys to nurturing godliness among converts from economically poorer backgrounds : a case study from Sri Lanka  -- Ajith Fernando; title: John Wesley as a contextual theologian  -- Dean S. Gilliland; title: Indigenous proverbs, rituals, and stories : evidence of God's prevenient grace in oral cultures  -- W. Jay Moon; title: Islamic studies : the insider's approach  -- Wilbur Stone; title: The cross and mission  -- Hwa Yung -- pt. 5:; title: Strategic perspectives.; title: Mission strategy in the Wesleyan spirit  -- George G. Hunter III; title: Healing the Earth : a Wesleyan imperative  -- Norman E. Thomas; title: The incarnation as motif for development practice  -- Lindy Backues; title: Edinburgh 2010 : implications for Wesleyan witness  -- Daryl Balia; title: Harnessing the power of revival : leadership training from a Wesleyan perspective  -- Norival Trindade Jr.; title: The use of "means" in evangelical missions today -- Darrell L. Whiteman.