Perspectives on the World Christian Movement: Reader by Ralph D. WinterMy rating: 2 of 5 stars
My bias is perhaps I have more interest in biblical theology than in the history of world missions, and having grown up in a charismatic missions church, find the case studies to be less "spectacular" than I had expected. I did really enjoy the assortment of biblical perspectives, and works by the pioneers of modern missions (like Carey and Taylor).
Maybe the fact that we were to read this title as a compulsory reading for a missions course killed the joy of reading. If I were to purchase this book, I would cut it up and only keep the more enjoyable chapters (1-7, 9, 11-19, 21, 24, 27-28, 30-31, 34-36, 43, 48-51, 54, 69, 75-76, 78-80, 88, 99, 101, 106, 110, 132, 134-6). Overall, there are a few brilliant articles, but the disjointment from author to author does not provide a smooth overarching picture from theology to practice. I also would avoid any article written by Hawthorne as he writes from a non-scholarly perspective.
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