Crossing cultural frontiers : studies in the history of world Christianity / Andrew F. Walls ; edited by Mark R. Gornik.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walls, Andrew F. (Andrew Finlay), author.

Contributor:

Gornik, Mark R., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christianity.

Church history.

Missions--History.

Missions.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 284 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Maryknoll : Orbis Books, 2017.

Summary:

Andrew F. Walls's first collection of essays, The Missionary Movement in Christian History, was named by Christianity Today in their list of the top 100 most influential books of the twentieth century. In this third collection, he carries forward his decades-long project, upending staid interpretations of Christian history by examining the role of mission and cross-cultural transmission of the Gospel in the formation of World Christianity Book jacket.

Contents:

Part 1 The Transmission of Christian Faith

1 World Christianity and the Early Church 3

2 Origen, the Father of Mission Studies 19

3 Worldviews and Christian Conversion 35

4 Toward a Theology of Migration 49

5 Globalization and the Study of Christian History 63

Part 2 Africa in Christian Thought and History

6 The Cost of Discipleship The Witness of the African Church 79

7 A Christian Experiment The Early Sierra Leone Colony 91

8 Christianity and the Language Issue The Early Years of Protestant Missions in West Africa 111

9 The Discovery of "African Traditional Religion" and Its Impact on Religious Studies 127

10 Kwame Bediako and Christian Scholarship in Africa 145

Part 3 The Missionary Movement and the West

11 Missions and the English Novel 157

12 World Parish to World Church John and Charles Wesley on Home and Overseas Mission 173

13 Missions and Historical Memory Jonathan Edwards and David Brainerd 185

14 Distinguished Visitors Tiyo Soga and Behari Lai Singh: In Europe and at Home 203

15 Western Christians in China A Chapter in a Long History 217

16 Building to Last Harold Turner and the Study of Religion 245.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Walls, Andrew F. (Andrew Finlay). Crossing cultural frontiers.

ISBN:

9781626982581

1626982589

OCLC:

988168589