266.009 WAL /1//1
Walls A. F., ;
The Missionary Movement in Christian History : Studies in the Transmission of Faith / Andrew F. Walls. — Maryknoll, New York : Orbis Books , 1996. — 266 c.. — ISBN 1-57075-059-9
ДКД 266.009
ДКД 266.009
Зміст:
I. The Transmission of Christian Faith
1. The Gospel as Prison and Liberator of Culture
2. Culture and Coherence in Christian History
3. The Translation Principle in Christian History
4. Culture and Conversion in Christian History
5. Romans One and the Modern Missionary Movement
6. Origins of Old Northern and New Southern Christianity

II. Africa's Place in Christian History
7. The Evangelical Revival, the Missionary Movement, and Africa
8. Black Europeans - White Africans
9. The Challenge of the African Independent Churches
10. Primal Religious Traditions in Today's World

III. The Missionary Movement
11. Structural Problems in Mission Studies
12. Missionary Vocation and the Ministry
13. The Western Discovery of Non-Western Christian Art
14. The Nineteenth-Century Missionary as Scholar
15. Humane Learning and the Missionary Movement
16. The Domestic Importance of the Nineteenth-Century Medical Missionary
17. The American Dimension of the Missionary Movement
18. Missionary Societies and the Fortunate Subversion of the Church
19. The Old Age of the Missionary Movement
Анотація:
Brings together lectures and articles by the renowned historian of world Christianity, making them available, many for the first time, to scholars and students of world mission. While examining the many aspects that have characterized mission, indigenous Christianity, and colonialism in modern Africa, The Missionary Movement in Christian History has a far broader reach. Essays such as “The Gospel as the Prisoner and Liberator of Culture” reveal the paradoxes of the Christian movement as a whole in discussing how different primitive Mediterranean Christianity is from early Catholicism, from Celtic monasticism, from Reformation Protestantism, and from Nigerian Spirit Christianity.
Andrew Walls shows how the central question for Christianity has always been one of identity in many different forms, a phenomenon revealed at each stage of its history by the missionary movement. What this means for theology, however, has hardly been explored. This is the subtext of Walls’ work, providing extraordinary insights and successful counters to secular critiques of world Christianity.

Winner of the Christianity Today Book Award