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Highlights
- Allen Yeh traces the history of the five 2010-2012 conferences on five continents celebrating the Edinburgh 1910 World Missionary Conference.
- About the Author: Allen Yeh (DPhil, Oxford University) is associate professor of intercultural studies and missiology at Biola University.
- 258 Pages
- Religion + Beliefs, Christian Ministry
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About the Book
Allen Yeh traces the history of the five 2010-2012 conferences on five continents celebrating the Edinburgh 1910 World Missionary Conference. Highlighting the crucial missiological issues of our era, he creates a portrait of a contemporary global Christian mission that encompasses every continent, embodying good news "from everyone to everywhere."
Book Synopsis
Allen Yeh traces the history of the five 2010-2012 conferences on five continents celebrating the Edinburgh 1910 World Missionary Conference. Highlighting the crucial missiological issues of our era, he creates a portrait of a contemporary global Christian mission that encompasses every continent, embodying good news "from everyone to everywhere."
Review Quotes
"Polycentric Missiology not only emerges from everywhere (as indicated by the book's title)-the author being the only one to have personally attended all five of the conferences discussed in the book-but also catapults Allen Yeh from 'up-and-coming' to 'established scholar' status. Here is a historically informed, ecumenically broad, and polyperspectival analysis of missiological trends appropriate to their polymorphic character at the start of the third global millennium, yet one that also characterizes the life-giving generosity of the gospel needed for everyone in a complex and dynamic world."
"Missiologist Allen Yeh offers a compelling narrative of both continuity and discontinuity for five conferences linking themselves with the centenary of the World Missionary Conference held in Edinburgh in 1910. His reflections, as first-hand accounts coming so soon after these events, will likely prove invaluable for years to come."
About the Author
Allen Yeh (DPhil, Oxford University) is associate professor of intercultural studies and missiology at Biola University. A missiologist who specializes in Latin America and China, he has traveled to over sixty countries and every continent to study, do mission work and experience cultures. He is the coauthor of Routes and Radishes: and Other Things to Talk About at the Evangelical Crossroads and coeditor of Expect Great Things, Attempt Great Things.