The editors of the International Bulletin of Mission Research, after consultation with several distinguished scholars, have selected ten books published in 2016 for special recognition of their contribution to mission studies. We commend the authors, editors, and publishers represented here for their contribution to the advancement of scholarship in studies of Christian mission and world Christianity.
1. Flett, John G.
Apostolicity: The Ecumenical Question in World Christian Perspective
Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic
2. Gittins, Anthony J.
The Way of Discipleship: Women, Men, and Today’s Call to Mission
Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press
3. Kang, Jie
House Church Christianity in China: From Rural Preachers to City Pastors
London: Palgrave Macmillan
4. Orobator, Agbonkhianmeghe E., ed.
The Church We Want: African Catholics Look to Vatican III
Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books
5. Ott, Craig, ed.
The Mission of the Church: Five Views in Conversation
Grand Rapids: Baker Academic
6. Reisacher, Evelyne A.
Joyful Witness in the Muslim World: Sharing the Gospel in Everyday Encounters
Grand Rapids: Baker Academic
7. Sanneh, Lamin, and Michael McClymond, eds.
The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to World Christianity
Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell
8. Tan, Jonathan Y., and Anh Q. Tran, eds.
World Christianity: Perspectives and Insights
Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books
9. Wrogemann, Henning
Intercultural Hermeneutics
Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic
10. Yeh, Allen
Polycentric Missiology: Twenty-First-Century Mission from Everyone to Everywhere
Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic
