The Center for the Study of World Christian Revitalization Movements

      Contextualization in the New Testament: Patterns for Theology and Mission, by Dean Flemming (InterVarsity, 2005), 344 pp. The author, a Nazarene missionary and New Testament scholar, sees contextualization in the NT as missional, ecclesial, and transformational. The book makes a fine companion to William Webb’s Slaves, Women, and Homosexuals: Exploring the Hermeneutics of Cultural Analysis (2001), with which however it does not enter into dialogue.     Cross and Covenant: Interpreting the Atonement for 21st  Century Mission, by R. Larry Shelton (Paternoster, 2006), 268 pp. This thorough biblical and historical study is a timely contribution to discussions about atonement. The relational…