Landmark Essays in Mission and World Christianity

Landmark Essays in Mission and World Christianity

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  • Author: Robert L. Gallagher
  • Publisher: Orbis Books
  • ISBN: 1608331296
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 272

Gallagher and Hertig have collected a range of seminal articles and papers that offer students insight into thinking by the makers of modern mission and world Christian studies. This is a priceless book for the classroom, bringing between two covers the most important reflections on these issues in our age. This marvelous book answers the prayers of teachers who have struggled for a generation with the problem of providing their students a resource that will offer an entre into the best thinking on the nature of mission and the emergence of world Christianity.


World Christianity

World Christianity

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  • Publisher: BRILL
  • ISBN: 9004444866
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 327

World Christianity publications proliferate but the issue of methodology has received little attention. World Christianity: Methodological Considerations addresses this lacuna and explores the methodological ramifications of the World Christianity turn. In twelve chapters scholars from various academic backgrounds (anthropology, religious studies, history, missiology, intercultural studies, theology, and patristics) as well as of multiple cultural and national belongings investigate methodological issues (e.g. methods, use of sources, choosing a unit of analysis, terminology, conceptual categories,) relevant to World Christianity debates. In a closing chapter the editors Frederiks and Nagy converge the findings and sketch the outlines of what they coin as a ‘World Christianity approach’, a multidisciplinary and multiple perspective approach to study Christianity/ies’ plurality and diversity in past and present.


American Missionaries, Korean Protestants, and the Changing Shape of World Christianity, 1884-1965

American Missionaries, Korean Protestants, and the Changing Shape of World Christianity, 1884-1965

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  • Author: William Yoo
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • ISBN: 1315525569
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 226

This book examines the partnerships and power struggles between American missionaries and Korean Protestant leaders in both nations from the late 19th century to the aftermath of the Korean War. Yoo analyzes American and Korean sources, including a plethora of unpublished archival materials, to uncover the complicated histories of cooperation and contestation behind the evolving relationships between Americans and Koreans at the same time the majority of the world Christian population shifted from the Global North to the Global South. American and Korean Protestants cultivated deep bonds with one another, but they also clashed over essential matters of ecclesial authority, cultural difference, geopolitics, and women’s leadership. This multifaceted approach – incorporating the perspectives of missionaries, migrants, ministers, diplomats, and interracial couples – casts new light on American and Korean Christianities and captures American and Korean Protestants mutually engaged in a global movement that helped give birth to new Christian traditions in Korea, created new transnational religious and humanitarian partnerships such as the World Vision organization, and transformed global Christian traditions ranging from Pentecostalism to Presbyterianism.


Christian Mission, Contextual Theology, Prophetic Dialogue

Christian Mission, Contextual Theology, Prophetic Dialogue

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  • Author: Irvin, Dale T.
  • Publisher: Orbis Books
  • ISBN: 1608337650
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages :

"While the intent of the editors is to honor Steve Bevans, SVD, a towering figure in the field of missiology and a longtime author of Orbis books on missiology, this book will be designed less as a festschrift than as a textbook for classroom use. Designed around the three main foci of Bevans' theology (mission, contextual theologies, and dialogical theory), it will appeal to teachers of courses in Christian mission, theological method, contextual theologies, and contemporary Third World theologies. The contributors are a who's who of contemporary mission studies in a global context, including representatives from various Christian traditions and from throughout the global church"--


World Christianity

World Christianity

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  • Author: Tan, Jonathan Y.
  • Publisher: Orbis Books
  • ISBN: 1608336360
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
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Breaking Through the Boundaries

Breaking Through the Boundaries

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  • Author: Hertig, Paul
  • Publisher: Orbis Books
  • ISBN: 1608337804
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 157

"The authors in this volume draw upon biblical narratives to highlight key roles played by Gentiles in the service of God's mission. Each biblical account is linked to a current, real-world issue as an application of the missiological insights gleaned from the biblical source. The biblical sources drawn upon include Abraham, Ruth, and Hagar; the current contexts addressed include Papua New Guinea, Chicago's immigrant communities, and North American encounters with God outside the Christian Church"--


Making Disciples in a World Parish

Making Disciples in a World Parish

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  • Author: Paul W. Chilcote
  • Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • ISBN: 1498273521
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 322

In this collection of inspirational and challenging essays, Methodists from around the globe reflect on the practice of disciple-making in their own contexts. From their own perspectives, they address questions like: What are the challenges you face? What biblical images shape your missional practice? What examples of Christian authenticity inspire your communities? What gifts related to mission and evangelism do you offer the global community of faith? Churches on every continent have their own stories of struggle and faithfulness. Indeed, each distinct community within any given region has a voice of its own that deserves to be heard. The voices included in this volume belong to women and men alike. Likewise, they resound with the accents of Africa and Asia, Latin and North America, Europe, and Oceania. Each voice is distinct, but all articulate a vision of faith made effective through love. In a world characterized variously by poverty and violence as well as prosperity and peace, the church must reclaim its central mission "to make disciples of Jesus Christ." In their effort to articulate a vision of mission and evangelism, the contributors to this volume bear witness to the fact that we can no longer do this work in isolation from one another. To be the ambassadors of the gospel, we need each other and we need to pay attention to the voices that sound different from our own. This volume takes a large step in that vital direction.


Unlikely Friends

Unlikely Friends

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  • Author: David W. Scott
  • Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • ISBN: 1725286394
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 227

Can something as simple as friendship have a transformative impact in a divided world? Through a series of richly textured historical portraits and reflections on personal experience, this book shows that boundary-crossing friendships in Christian mission have shaped theologies, built organizations and partnerships, facilitated mission work, and changed attitudes and ways of thinking. This is true in settings as varied as eighteenth-century French women's work, twentieth-century urban Boston, colonial India, the Jim Crow South, and twentieth-century rural Congo. In all these settings and more, friendship has mattered. Boundary-crossing friendships are, however, not easy. Despite their power, such friendships are complicated by race, gender, ability, class, nationality, and other elements of identity, as this book also demonstrates. Friendships are not immune from the divisions in the world, nor a simple cure-all for them. Still, friendship stands as a powerful testimony to the gospel. Therefore, the book calls for more attention to friendship in the study of mission history and more living out of friendship as a practice of mission. In this way, this book pays honor to Dr. Dana L. Robert as a pre-eminent mission scholar and exemplary friend and mentor to others in the fields of missiology and world Christianity.


African Christian Leadership

African Christian Leadership

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  • Author: Priest, Robert J.
  • Publisher: Orbis Books
  • ISBN: 1608337073
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
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Wealth, Health, and Hope in African Christian Religion

Wealth, Health, and Hope in African Christian Religion

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  • Author: Stan Chu Ilo
  • Publisher: Lexington Books
  • ISBN: 1498561284
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 339

Wealth, Health, and Hope in African Christian Religion offers a portrait of how contending narratives of modernity in both church and society play out in Africa today through the agency of African Christian religion. It explores the identity and features of African Christian religion and the cultural forces driving the momentum of Christian expansion in Africa, as well as how these factors are shaping a new African social imagination, especially in providing answers to the most challenging questions about poverty, wealth, health, human, and cosmic flourishing. It offers the academy a good road map for interpreting African Christian religious beliefs and practices today and into the future.