Engaging Globalization: The Poor, Christian Mission, and Our Hyperconnected World
Christianity Today Book Award Winner
Outreach Resource of the Year (Multicultural)
ASM (American Society of Missiology) Book of the Year Award
Globalization is speeding up our world, extending our relationships globally and bringing us closer together in positive and not-so-positive ways. The church and many Christians, however, remain largely unaware of its seductive power, resulting in a failure of vision for mission in today's world.
This up-to-date resource by a veteran leader in global development work with World Vision orients readers to the history of globalization and to a Christian theological perspective on it, explores concrete realities by focusing on global poverty, and helps readers reimagine Christian mission in ways that announce the truly good news of Christ and God's kingdom.
Diagrams and sidebars that incorporate the voices of global partners are included. This is the second book in a new series that reframes missiological themes and studies for students using/featuring the common theme of mission as partnership with Christians.
"Engaging Globalization unpacks the history of globalization and its shaping of the human story, as well as focusing on how to present the gospel in such a world. Myers reimagines globalization and its subsequent influence on the crucial missional issues of the church such as migration, creation care, justice and compassion, power and development. At the same time, he emphasizes that our omnipotent God is in the midst of globalization and is still very much in control."
- Robert L. Gallagher, Outreach
"Globalization is a complicated topic. Myers makes dense concepts relatively accessible to his readers and provides theological lenses through which to see the issues at stake. . . . Myers takes a clear-eyed view of globalizing processes, seeing both the good and the evil they bring. One of the most helpful lessons Myers provides is on the role individual humans might play in a globalized society, and how we should not lose sight of an all-powerful God, who is over, above, and in the midst of globalization, even as globalization is part of our fallen creation and is not likely to last forever."
- Stephen Offutt, Christianity Today
| Type | |
| Genre | Academic Theory/Thesis |
| Expression | General Writing/Recording |
| Topic | General Christian Mission, Globalization |
| Audience | Adults |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Baker Publishing Group |
| ISBN | 9780801097980 |
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