The Priesthood of All Students

Timothée Joset's Priesthood of All Students is a welcome scholarly contribution to the missiological significance of student ministry in diverse contexts for the rapid expansion of global Christianity. I commend this book to all students of God's mission in our generation and beyond. Femi B. Adeleye, PhD Executive Director, Institute for Christian Impact, Ghana Research Fellow, Akrofi-Christaller Institute for Theology, Mission and Culture, Ghana This book is a timely contribution as we celebrate seventy-five years of IFES ministry, since its formation in 1947. Timothée Joset comes up with a fresh, passionate, energetic, yet thoughtful review of the past seventy-five years. This book is a must-read for all leaders within IFES today and those involved in university ministry. Michel Kenmogne, PhD SIL International Executive Director Based on intense archival research, Joset's ambitious history of IFES is both theological and global. This useful study will stimulate further research into the important contribution of IFES in the making of worldwide, multi-cultural evangelical Christianity. I highly recommend it. Dana L. Robert, PhD William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor, Director, Center for Global Christianity and Mission, Boston University, Massachusetts, USA Evangelical ministry within universities has been a crucial shaper of the contours of contemporary world Christianity, especially in disproving the false connection too often drawn between conservative theology and indifference to issues of social justice. Timothée Joset's well-documented and theologically informed history of IFES will become a standard source for future researchers. Brian Stanley, PhD Professor of World Christianity, University of Edinburgh, UK In seventy-five years a remarkable movement of Christian mission to university students has swept across more than 165 countries. How did this come to be? Timothée Joset's learned and deeply researched book traces the incipient power of belief in a priesthood exercised by students that can be personally and institutionally transformative. Every leader in IFES and world missions to university will benefit immensely from the rich insights and searching issues that this book brings into the present and heralds for the future. Terence Halliday, PhD Emeritus Research Professor, American Bar Foundation and Honourary Professor, Australian National University, Australia