BOOK CRITIQUE ON
PLANTING CHURCHES CROSS-CULTURALLY:
North America and Beyond
SUBMITTED TO ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF PRACTICAL STUDIES/ INSTRUCTIONAL MENTOR/ SCHOOL OF DIVINITY DR. WILLIAM E. BROWN
LIBERTY UNIVERSITY BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE COURSE
BY
EL-FATIH J. AJALA (25927535)
EVAN 505-B04
LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA
SEPTEMBER 4, 2015
TABLE OF CONTENTS
AUTHOR INFORMATION……………….…………………………………………………….1
CONTENT SUMMARY...……………………………………………………………….……1-3
EVALUATION...……………………………………………………………………………...4-7
Author information:
Retired from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, David Hesselgrave holds a doctorate from the University of Minnesota in Rhetoric and Public Address with a cross-cultural communications emphasis. He has spent time as a pastor (for 5 years) and as a missionary in Japan (for 12 years). Hesselgrave taught for nearly three decades and holds three degrees from the University of Minnesota which includes a Doctorate in Philosophy in rhetoric and public address emphasizing in cross-cultural communications and also a diploma from Trinity Theological Seminary. In addition to Planting Churches Cross-Culturally, he has also written Contextualization, Paradigms in Conflict, and Communicating Christ Cross-Culturally. He is a currently a member of The American Society of Missiology, the Evangelical Missiological Society which he served on from 1991-1994 as the executive director, and the EFCA Ministerial Association. He has lectured in more than forty countries around the world.
Besides having written the publications mentioned above, Dr. Hesselgrave has also written Counseling Cross-Culturally: An Introduction to Theory and Practice, and Planting Churches Cross-Culturally. Dr. Hesselgrave’s book Scripture and Strategy is his first in a series which is in association with the Evangelical Missiological Society.
Content Summary:
Planting Churches Cross Culturally, has 323 pages