Langham New Monographs (12 vols.)

by Ábrahám Kovács; Zoltán S. Schwáb; Franklin Steven Jabini Sr.

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Publisher:

Langham

, 2014–2016

Overview

The Langham New Monographs 12 volume collection is filled with useful observations and best-practices formed through cross-cultural ministry settings. Expert authors explore the history of Bible translation and the positive and negative effects of missionary work. Discover the impact of theological education styles on the effectiveness of their students and the struggles faced by theology students with English as a second or foreign language. Authors explore Old Testament themes for modern missional practice. This collection also provides readers with insight into proper biblical hermeneutics and techniques for creative preaching.

Key Features

• Explore issues of local identity and Christ centered self-understanding in missions
• Provides example of how the Bible facilitates cross-cultural education
• Presents a personal history of pioneer missionaries

Product Details

• Title: Langham New Monographs
• Series: Langham Monographs
• Publisher: Langham
• Volumes: 12
• Pages: 3,898
• Resource Type: Monographs
• Topic: Biblical Studies

Bible Translation in Suriname: An Overview of its History, Translators, and Sources

• Author: Franklin Steven Jabini
• Publisher: Langham Monographs
• Publication Date: 2016
• Pages: 266

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The Republic of Suriname’s heritage of Bible translation spans more than 250 years, yet little has been published on its history. This book provides the reader with a detailed survey of the history of Bible translation across the many language groups of Suriname. Illustrating the difficult and complicated process of Bible translation, it furnishes brief biographies of translators, both national and foreign, as well as the denominations and parachurch organizations involved.

Franklin Steven Jabini is the head of the postgraduate school of the South African Theological Seminary (SATS). He serves the Evangelical School of Theology in Suriname (EST) and the Caribbean College of the Bible International in Trinidad (CCBI) in different capacities. Since 1988, he has been a full-time worker with the Plymouth Brethren.

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

• Author: Jangkholam Haokip
• Publisher: Langham Monographs
• Publication Date: 2016
• Pages: 378

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The introduction of Christianity by missionaries in North-East India, despite 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 the struggle for identity among the tribal people of North-East India and more particularly the Kuki people of Manipur.

Jangkholam Haokip holds a PhD from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland and an MTh from the United Theological College, India. He is a faculty member at Union Biblical Seminary, Pune, India and is also involved with integral mission and social justice projects among disadvantaged minority communities in India.

From Land to Lands, from Eden to the Renewed Earth: A Christ-Centered Biblical Theology of the Promised Land

• Author: Munther Isaac
• Publisher: Langham Monographs
• Publication Date: 2015
• Pages: 426

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The land 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 perspectives—holiness, the covenant, and the kingdom. Through careful analysis the author recognizes that the land has been universalized in Christ, as anticipated in the Old Testament, and as a result promotes a missional theology of the land that underlines the social and territorial dimensions of redemption.

Munther Isaac holds a PhD in Biblical Studies from the Oxford Center for Mission Studies. Currently he serves as academic dean at Bethlehem Bible College and Director of the influential Christ at the Checkpoint conferences.

Hermeneutics of Mission in Matthew: Israel and the Nations in the Interpretative Framework of Matthew’s Gospel

• Author: Bitrus A. Sarma
• Publisher: Langham Monographs
• Publication Date: 2016
• Pages: 254

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The Gospel of Matthew is pivotal in scholarly discussion on the hermeneutical use of the Old Testament in the New. Bitrus Sarma proposes that Matthew utilizes the Old Testament as a book of promise of God’s plan and that Jesus is the fulfillment of that promise. For Matthew, God’s purpose to save fallen humanity is the grand narrative of the Bible. Using promise-fulfillment as the interpretative framework for mission theology, Sarma explores redemptive events and institutions, geography, prophetic ministry, and intertextual typology.

In Academia for the Church: Eastern and Central European Theological Perspectives

• Editors: Abraham Kovacs and Zoltan S. Schwab
• Publisher: Langham Monographs
• Publication Date: 2014
• Pages: 168

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Tension between theory and practice in theological education is an unfortunate yet common occurrence, with educators sometimes finding themselves on one extreme or the other. Some academics can be so immersed in high-level theological discourse that they hardly interact with the main questions of the average church-goer, while others are so keen to be engaging and relevant they fail to be rigorous in their scholarship. Learn how to address the tension between academia and the church in this publication.

Insights from the Lives of Olive Doke and Paul Kasonga for Pioneer Mission and Church Planting Today

• Author: Conrad Mbewe
• Publisher: Langham Monographs
• Publication Date: 2016
• Pages: 208

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This work deals with the question of the hand-over process of pioneer missionaries to the first indigenous leaders in church-planting missions situations. It recognizes that this process, when wrongly handled, has caused a lot of harm to the work of missions. The case study in this thesis, which took place at the start of Baptist work in Zambia, shows one example in which it was done exceptionally well.

Conrad Mbewe holds a PhD, MPhil and an MA in pastoral theology from the Univerity of Pretoria as well as a BSc in mining engineering from the University of Zambia. Having previously trained and worked as a mining engineer in the Zambian copper mines, he answered God’s call and became pastor of Kabwata Baptist Church in 1987.

Mission Partnership in Creative Tension: An Analysis of the Relationships in Mission within the Evangelical Movement with Special Reference to Peru and Britain between 1987 and 2006

• Author: Samuel Cueva
• Publisher: Langham Monographs
• Publication Date: 2015
• Pages: 500

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Samuel Cueva has refined his concept of ‘partnership in mission’ by advocating the use of reciprocal contextual collaboration in this important contribution to scholarly reflection on contemporary missiology. Referencing historical, theological and functional aspects of how mission has been carried out, as well as analyzing it’s impact on the evangelical movement, the author identifies that mission always develops with positive and negative tensions.

Samuel Cueva holds a PhD in theology from Trinity Saint David, University of Wales and an MA in mission studies from the University of Birmingham, UK. Samuel was born in the highlands of Peru and is the ninth of ten siblings. His father Juan was the founder of the first indigenous mission society in Peru in 1946, and from childhood Samuel has been directly influenced by Latin American mission theology thanks to his father. He has worked as a missionary in Spain and in the United Kingdom for more than twenty years. Samuel is married to Noemi and they have two children.

Paul’s Viewpoint on God, Israel, and the Gentiles in Romans 9–11: An Intertextual Thematic Analysis

• Author: Xiaxia E. Xue
• Publisher: Langham Monographs
• Publication Date: 2015
• Pages: 320

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Over the years Romans 9–11 has been investigated from a variety of approaches, with one of the most prominent being an intertextual reading. However, most discussions of intertextual studies on this section of Romans fail to adequately address Paul’s discourse patterns and that of his Jewish contemporaries with regard to God, Israel, and the Gentiles. Adapting Lemke’s linguistic intertextual thematic theory, this study uses a methodological control to analyze the discourse patterns in Romans 9–11.

Responsibility, Chastisement and Restoration: Relational Justice in the Book of Hosea

• Author: Ronald Laldinsuah
• Publisher: Langham Monographs
• Publication Date: 2015
• Pages: 362

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Neglect of the book of Hosea in relation to justice arises from the common notion that he was a prophet of love, and although some studies concede that parts of the book deal with justice, it is often overlooked or given secondary importance to other concerns and themes. Ronald Laldinsuah addresses this misconception by demonstrating that Hosea was indeed a prophet of justice, and observes both the biblical concept and the secular notions of justice it is observed that justice must perpetuate right and true relationships. In ‘relational justice’ we see the inseparable relationship among humans, and between humans and God—emphasizing Hosea’s message of responsibility, chastisement and restoration.

Ronald Laldinsuah is lecturer in Old Testament at Myanmar Evangelical Graduate School of Theology (MEGST), Yangon. He is also the founding pastor of Hlainthayar Biblical Presbyterian Church, Yangon. He completed his PhD at the Australian College of Theology, through Ridley College, Melbourne and holds an MTh in Old Testament from SAIACS, India and an MDiv from MEGST.

Seeing the Face of God: Exploring an Old Testament Theme

• Author: Satyavani Puttagunta
• Publisher: Langham Monographs
• Publication Date: 2014
• Pages: 300

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The expression the “face of God” is a familiar one to Bible scholars and its meaning has long been a point of disagreement, especially in its use with the verb “to see”. While some scholars dismissed the expression as merely a metaphor with little significance, others have compared it to the ‘face” of gods and goddesses of the ANE religious context, where worshippers sought an audience with their ‘divine’ king. Scrutinizing previous scholarship and based on careful exegesis of several crucial passages in the Penteteuch, this publication presents the motif “seeing the face of God” in an entirely new context of divine self-revelation.

Satyavani Puttagunta, a native of Andhra Pradesh, India, formally trained as a science teacher but later received her Masters in theology from Union Biblical Seminary, India. She holds an MLitt from the University of St. Andrews, Scotland and received her PhD from Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland.

The Church in the World: A Historical-Ecclesiological Study of the Church of Uganda with Particular Reference to Post-Independence Uganda, 1962–1992

• Author: David Zac Niringiye
• Publisher: Langham Monographs
• Publication Date: 2016
• Pages: 456

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Historically, studies of the church in Africa have tended to focus on church history or church-state relations, but in this publication David Zac Niringiye presents a study of the Church of Uganda focused on its ecclesiology. Niringiye examines several formative periods for the Church of Uganda during concurrent chronological political eras characterized by varying degrees of socio-political turbulence, highlighting how the social context impacted the church’s self-expression.

David Zac Niringiye is the retired assistant bishop of the diocese of Kampala, Church of Uganda. Currently a fellow in the Faculty of Social Sciences at Uganda Christian University, he has a distinguished career as a theologian, mission leader, pastor, HIV and AIDS activist, and organizational development consultant. Called "the foremost evangelical Christian thinker/theologian today," Niringiye teaches at churches and conferences in Africa, Europe and North American while continuing his work of peace and social-political justice in Uganda.

The Theology of the Land in Amos 7–9

• Author: Robert Khua Hnin Thang
• Publisher: Langham Monographs
• Publication Date: 2014
• Pages: 260

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In the book of Amos the language about land is used extensively, including terms and ideas such as Zion, YHWH’s bringing of Israel into the land, references to various sanctuaries and places, harvest and famine, the relationship between the northern kingdom and Judah, and references to the land of other nations. However this subject of the land has never been studied as a theological topic in its own right, but only as part of other themes. This work follows a synchronic reading of Amos and employing textual, literary and historical criticism the author carries out a careful theological analysis of the land.

Robert Khua Hnin Thang holds a PhD from the Univeristy of Gloucestershire, England, a ThM from Torch Trinity Graduate University, Seoul, South Korea, an MDiv from Myanmar Institute of Theology, Yangon, Myanmar, a BTh from Chin Christian Institute of Theology (formerly Zomi Theological College), Falam, Myanmar and a BA (Q) from UDE, Yangon, Myanmar. Robert is currently pastor at Hlei Bik Memorial Baptist Church and academic dean at the Bethel Theological Seminary in Kalaymyo, Myanmar.