Bryant L. Myers - Engaging Globalization: The Poor, Christian Mission, and Our Hyperconnected World

Engaging Globalization delves into the complex forces of globalization that shape our contemporary world. At the heart of the book is a long-standing concern for Gods shalom, continuing the important work Myers helped inform with his earlier volume, Walking with the Poor . What is more, Myers does so as a missiologist, which perhaps more than anything else makes this book so critical.

Gregg A. Okesson , E. Stanley Jones School of World Mission and Evangelism, Asbury Theological Seminary

Christian leaders, teachers, and ministers have a responsibility to provide accurate historical, biblical, and theological reflections on globalization rather than regurgitating uninformed, biased media reports. In this essential text, Myers offers a vision of human flourishing that emerges from careful study and thoughtful pastoral reflection.

Soong-Chan Rah , North Park Theological Seminary; author of The Next Evangelicalism and coauthor of Return to Justice

God wants our hearts and heads, our hands and feet, to partner in transforming a messy and complex world. Loving God and loving neighbor in our age of globalization requires new dimensions of discipleship, attentive discernment, and intentional spiritual formation. Myers shares a compelling vision for how ordinary laity, church leaders, and people of goodwill are called to partake in Gods work of restoration and redemption.

Krisanne Vaillancourt Murphy , coauthor of Advocating for Justice: An Evangelical Vision for Transforming Systems and Structures

After more than half a century of usage, the term globalization is experiencing a crisis of meaning and significance. For people of faith, the concept poses daunting questions; perhaps especially for the global Christian family, since the Christian movement is both impacted by and deeply implicated in the processes of globalization. But Christian perspectives or responses tend to narrowly focus on one dimension or the other. In Engaging Globalization , Myers provides a comprehensive and astute appraisal. The complexities of globalization (understood as a deeply embedded historical process) are carefully navigated; entrenched myths regarding its value, promise, and outcome are interrogated; and the ambiguities, not to mention unresolved dilemmas, of its myriad processes are laid bare. This engaging exploration of what it means to be the church in a new global age is both timely and instructive.

Jehu J. Hanciles , Candler School of Theology, Emory University

For Christians desiring to engage the joys and trials of globalization with inspired, faith-centered, and effective responses, Myers marks the path. Insisting on the essential connection between a deep spiritual relationship with God and commitment to justice in the world, Engaging Globalization calls Christians everywhere to the redemptive task of appreciating the good of secular theories and practices of globalization, while at the same time revising and reforming these theories and practices with our deep awareness of God, our image-bearing humanity, and the purpose God has given us.

Roland Hoksbergen , Calvin College