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The image is The Pitcairn Flight into Egypt, from the Infancy of Christ window of the Abbey Church of Saint-Denis, France, c. 1140-1145 (Glencairn Museum, 03.SG.114).

Some authors and publishers have made their texts freely available. Those I find will be included here. If you know of others, please let me know! Please note that the inclusion of these links does not reflect any agreement with their contents.

Open Access

Follow these links for general searches for Open Access texts

BRILL Open Access

Directory of Open Access Books

Directory of Open Access Journals

Book Series

Edinburgh Centenary Series, Regnum

The whole 35 volumes are available through this link. I, however, direct you to a few of the more theoretical works below.

Ross, Kenneth R., Jooseop Keum, Kyriaki Avtzi, and Roderick R. Hewitt, eds. Ecumenical Missiology: Changing Landscapes and New Conceptions of Mission, Oxford; Regnum, 2016.

Wild-Wood, Emma, and Peniel Rajkumar, eds. Foundations for Mission, Oxford: Regnum, 2012.

Schreiter, Robert J., and Kund Jørgensen, eds. Mission as Ministry of Reconciliation, Oxford: Regnum Books, 2013.

Woolnough, Brian, and Wonsuk Ma, eds. Holistic Mission: God’s Plan for God’s People, Oxford: Regnum, 2011.

International Voices in Biblical Studies, SBL

The IVPS is an an online, peer reviewed, open-access book series that provides a platform for biblical critics and authors particularly from Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, the Pacific, and Eastern Europe. Currently it includes 14 volumes.

Ahn, Byung-Mu, and Pyŏng-mu An, eds. Stories of Minjung Theology: The Theological Journey of Ahn Byung-Mu in His Own Words. Atlanta, GA: SBL Press, 2019.

Havea, Jione, and Peter H. W. Lau, eds. Reading Ecclesiastes From Asia and Pasifika. Atlanta, GA: SBL Press, 2020.

Vaka’uta, Nasili, ed. Reading Ezra 9-10 Tu’a-Wise: Rethinking Biblical Interpretation in Oceania. Atlanta, GA: SBL Press, 2011.

Theology and Mission in World Christianity, BRILL

Frederiks, Martha, and Dorottya Nagy, eds. World Christianity: Methodological Considerations, Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2020.

Bom, Klaas, and Benno van den Toren. Context and Catholicity in the Science and Religion Debate: Intercultural contributions from French-speaking Africa, Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2020.

Frederiks, Martha, and Dorottya Nagy, eds. Religion, Migration and Identity: Methodological and Theological Explorations, Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2016.

World Council of Churches Publications

The WCC has made a significant number of its publications available free online as PDF downloads. To give but a few examples:

Robeck Jr., Cecil M., Sotirios Boukis, and Ani Ghazaryan Drissi, eds. Towards a Global Vision of the Church: Explorations on Global Christianity and Ecclesiology: Vol. 1. Geneva: WCC, 2022. [As a observation, however, note how this text happily talks about Africa, Asia and Latin America, while omitting Oceania from world Christianity.]

Lossky, Nicolas, José Míguez Bonino, John Pobee, Tom F. Stransky, Geoffrey Wainwright, and Pauline Webb, eds. Dictionary of the Ecumenical Movement. Geneva: WCC, 2002.

Jukko, Risto, ed. Together in the Mission of God: Jubilee Reflections on the International Missionary Council. Geneva: WCC Publications, 2022.

Books

Frostin, Per. Liberation Theology in Tanzania And South Africa: A First World Interpretation. Pietermaritzburg: Cluster Publications & Ujamaa Centre, 2021.

Burlăcioiu, Ciprian, ed. Migration and Diaspora Formation: New Perspectives on a Global History of Christianity. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022.

Grümme, Bernhard, Claudia Jahnel, Martin Radermacher, Claudia Rammelt, and Jens Schlamelcher, eds. Globale Christentümer: Theologische und religionswissenschaftliche Perspektiven. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill Schöningh, 2022.

Enns, Fernando, Upolu Lumā Vaai, Andrés Pacheco Lozano, and Betty Pries, eds. Transformative Spiritualities for the Pilgrimage of Justice and Peace, Geneva: WCC Publications & Globalethics.net, 2022.

Heinrich, Fritz, Cornelia Schlarb, Egbert Schlarb, and Ulrike Schröder, eds. Dialogues and Dynamics – Interculturality in Theology and Religious Studies, Göttingen: Universitätsverlag Göttingen, 2021.

International Theological Commission of the Ecumenical Association of Third World Theologians, ed. Getting the Poor Down from the Cross: Christology of Liberation. EATWOT/ASETT, 2007.

Konz, Britta, Bernhard Ortmann, and Christian Wetz, eds. Postkolonialismus, Theologie und die Konstruktion des Anderen / Postcolonialism, Theology and the Construction of the Other: Erkundungen in einem Grenzgebiet / Exploring Borderlands, Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2020.

Lauterbach, Karen, and Mika Vähäkangas, eds. Faith in African Lived Christianity: Bridging Anthropological and Theological Perspectives, Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2019.