The Cross-Cultural Process in Christian History: Studies in the Transmission and Appropriation of Faith

by Andrew F. Walls

Overview

From the award-winning author of The Missionary Movement in Christian History (one of the 100 most influential books of the 20th century, according to Christianity Today comes a new book that offers readers remarkable new insights into the ways Christianity has interacted with cultures. Fresh understandings of Pentecostalism, African traditional religion, and the ironic ways in which Western missionaries affected change--for both good and ill--in ways they never dreamed of insure that readers will never again think the same way about the history of World Christianity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781608331826
Publisher:	Orbis
Publication date:	02/26/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	673 KB

Table of Contents

	Preface	ix
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
	Index	279