Description: Can the Desert Be Green?
Our world is in peril. Environmental degradation, human suffering, and relentless calamities confront us daily, painting a picture of a planet in distress. Amid this daunting reality, how can God's people respond effectively? This critical question beckons for a thoughtful and proactive response that intertwines faith and ecology with tangible action in our increasingly fragile world.
Hope for Creation offers a unique blend of theological insight and practical application. It gathers perspectives from theologians and practitioners, each giving a comprehensive understanding of creation care. The contributors not only diagnose environmental and humanitarian issues but also propose actionable solutions rooted in biblical foundations and contemporary experiences.
This book is a call to action for Christians and mission leaders worldwide, urging active participation in restoring and preserving our planet. It equips church leaders, missionaries, and believers with the knowledge and tools to make a meaningful impact. By embracing this mission, readers contribute to a sustainable, hopeful future, joining a transformative journey towards environmental and human healing.
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Jonathan J. Bonk is research professor of mission at Boston University, where he is director emeritus of the Dictionary of African Christian Biography (www.dacb.org). He is executive director emeritus of the Overseas Ministries Study Center (www.omsc.org) where he served from 1997 until his retirement in July 2013. He was editor of the International Bulletin of Missionary Research (www.internationalbulletin.org) from July 1997 until June 2013. He has authored five books, edited eleven collaborative volumes, and published nearly two hundred scholarly articles, book chapters, reviews, and editorials. His best-known book is Missions and Money: Affluence as a Western Missionary Problem (Orbis 1991 and 2006). Past president of the APM, ASM, EMS, and IAMS, he has served on the executive of the Global Mission Leadership Forum since 2011. Each of the previous six forums has resulted in books published in English and in Korean. He retired as GMLF President following this seventh forum. He is a lay minister of the Fort Garry Mennonite Fellowship in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He was raised in Ethiopia by missionary parents.
Review Quotes: This latest volume from the Korean Global Mission Leaders Forum (KGMLF) deals with the pressing issues of ecological and human calamity, and in so doing, offers an unusual richness of biblical reflection and practical wisdom. Wide-ranging, diverse, and hopeful, the book is the fruit of the unique space KGMLF creates by bringing together Korean and international scholars in conversation with mission practitioners.
Paul Bendor-Samuel MRCGP, MBE, Executive Director, Oxford Centre for Mission Studies, Director, Regnum Books, Sundo Kim Research Tutor in Global Mission