The cross-cultural process in Christian history : studies in the transmission and appropriation of faith / Andrew F. Walls.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walls, Andrew F. (Andrew Finlay)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Missions--History.

Missions.

History.

Physical Description:

x, 284 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Maryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books ; Edinburgh : T & T Clark, [2002]

Summary:

In The Cross-Cultural Process in christian History, Andrew F. Walls shows he has not lost the capacity to surprise readers with new insights into things they thought long settled. In essays that sparkle with wit and insight Walls reaches back to Eusebius of Edessa in the fourth century and down to the contemporary world. His seer's eyes reach from "Old Athens" and "New Jerusalem", to the vast continents of South America and Asia, to his beloved Africa. On the way he offers fresh understandings of Pentecostalism, African traditional religion, and the ironic ways in which the western missionary movement often accomplished things -- both for good and for ill -- that its agents never dreamed of.

Contents:

Part 1 The Transmission of Christian Faith

1. A History of the Expansion of Christianity Reconsidered: Assessing Christian Progress and Decline 3

2. Christianity in the Non-Western World: A Study in the Serial Nature of Christian Expansion 27

3. From Christendom to World Christianity: Missions and the Demographic Transformation of the Church 49

4. The Ephesian Moment: At a Crossroads in Christian History 72

Part 2 Africa in Christian History

5. Africa in Christian History: Retrospect and Prospect 85

6. African Christianity in the History of Religions 116

7. Africa as the Theatre of Christian Engagement with Islam in the Nineteenth Century 136

8. Samuel Ajayi Crowther (1807-1891): Patterns of African Christianity in the Nineteenth Century 155

9. The Significance of Harry Sawyerr 165

Part 3 Vignettes of the Missionary Movement from the West

10. Carrying the White Man's Burden: Some British Views of the National Vocation in the Imperial Era 177

11. The Protestant Missionary Awakening in Its European Context 194

12. The Missionary Movement: A Lay Fiefdom? 215

13. The Multiple Conversions of Timothy Richard: A Paradigm of Missionary Experience 236

14. The Scottish Missionary Diaspora 259

15. Missiologist of the Road: David Jacobus Bosch (1929-1992) 273.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1570753733

0567088693

OCLC:

47237613