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 Christianity Today's 100 most influential books of the 20th century) comes this book providing readers remarkable new insights into the ways Christianity has interacted with cultures both historically and today. 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:	9781570753732
Publisher:	Orbis Books
Publication date:	12/01/2001
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	5.80(w) x 8.70(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Andrew F. Walls (1928-2021) was honorary professor of world Christianity, University of Edinburgh, and a pioneering figure in mission history. A former missionary to Sierra Leone, Dr. Walls also taught at the University of Aberdeen, where he established the Centre for the Study of Christianity in the Non-Western World, now the Centre for the Study of World Christianity. He also served as professor of the history of mission at Liverpool Hope University and was emeritus professor of Akrofi-Christaller Institute, Akropong, Ghana. With Lamin Sanneh, he established the Yale-Edinburgh Group in 1992. Dr. Walls's books include The Missionary Movement in Christian History (a Christianity Today Book Award winner), Crossing Cultural Frontiers: Studies in the History of World Christianity, and (co-edited with Cathy Ross) Mission in the 21st Century: Exploring the Five Marks of Global Mission (all from Orbis Books).

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