Becoming cosmopolitan : unfolding two centuries of mission at Virginia Theological Seminary / William L. Sachs and Wanjiru M. Gitau ; foreword by Daniel Aleshire.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sachs, William L., 1947- author.

Gitau, Wanjiru M., 1977- author.

Contributor:

Aleshire, Daniel O., 1947- writer of foreword.

Charlton Yarnall Fund.

Yarnall Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Protestant Episcopal Theological Seminary in Virginia (Alexandria, Va.)--History.

Protestant Episcopal Theological Seminary in Virginia (Alexandria, Va.).

Episcopal Church--Missions--History.

Episcopal Church.

Physical Description:

xv, 226 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Eugene, Oregon : Pickwick Publications, [2023]

Summary:

"The legacy of Christian mission seems beyond dispute. Western churches carried imperialist and racist assumptions as they evangelized and encouraged the formation of indigenous churches. Amid those realities a different sensibility took root. As the history of Virginia Theological Seminary illustrates, missionaries who were alumni adapted to contextual circumstances in ways that challenged Western presumptions. Mission encouraged cosmopolitan ties featuring mutuality and reciprocity. The path to such relations was not straight nor always readily taken. Yet, over the seminary's two-hundred-year history, the cosmopolitan direction has become evident on several continents. As missionaries came home, and leaders and students from abroad visited the seminary, the ideal of cosmopolitan relations spread. It became evident as mission churches took indigenous form and control. It was reinforced as Western churches explored the dimensions of social justice. American theological education affirmed the reality of diversity and recast its pedagogies in appreciative ways. This book traces an epic shift in mission and theological education measured by the rise of cosmopolitanism in the life of Virginia Theological Seminary." -- Page 4 of cover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-226).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Charlton Yarnall Fund.

ISBN:

1725283549

9781725283541

9781725283589

1725283581

OCLC:

1370623751

Publisher Number:

99993871805