Understanding THE GOSPEL Culture and Environment

This book pays fitting tribute to a modest but exceptional woman whose life and gifts as a young Australian missionary with excellent academic training, extraordinary intellectual aptitude and principled ideals were transplanted to Ghana forty years ago. Rooted in the cultural, linguistic and intellectual soil of Ghana she thrived and blossomed. The essays--many of them by her former graduate students--are marked by insightful originality, intellectual rigor, and clear elucidation. Of great interest in and of themselves, collectively they constitute evidence of Prof. Howell's profound contribution to several generations of some of Africa's keenest and most original theological minds. With her, they and others like them have striven to wrest Christianity from its captivity to Western cultural forms, forces and myopias to reveal the Word made flesh in Africa. Christian thinkers and practitioners everywhere will benefit from this book.
Prof. Jonathan Bonk, Dictionary of African Christian Biography, Boston University School of Theology

These essays, contributed by eminent scholars, in Honour of Professor Allison May Howell, is an excellent piece of work for present and emerging Christian leaders who want to understand and respond positively to issues on Gospel, Culture and Environment. It is a true reflection on the life and work of Professor Allison Howell, and I highly recommend it for anyone committed to holistic Christian living.
(Most Rev. Dr. Robert Kwasi Aboagye-Mensah, Past Presiding Bishop, The Methodist Church Ghana, and currently Director, Research and Publications, and a Member of the Research, Innovation and Consultancy Centre, Pentecost University/School of Theology, Mission and Leadership).