Book Notice: Introducing Christian Mission Today

Michael W. Goheen

Introducing Christian Mission Today: Scripture, History and Issues
Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 2014.
Available at Amazon.com

This is a wonderful book and is a worthy replacement to David Bosch’s brilliant but dated work Transforming Mission. It covers biblical and theological reflections on mission, reflections on the history of missions, and current issues in mission. I thought there was great analyses of contextualization, religious pluralism, urban mission, and mission to new frontiers. The book comes across as a hybrid of  Lesslie Newbigin, David Bosch, and N.T. Wright. No doubt this will probably be one of the preferred text books for mission studies in many colleges and seminaries.