The Missionary Movement in Christian History: Studies in the Transmission of Faith

by Andrew Walls

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781570750595
Publisher:	Orbis Books
Publication date:	09/20/1996
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Andrew F. Walls is a former missionary to Sierra Leone and Professor Emeritus of the Study of Christianity in the Non-Western World at the University of Edinburgh.

Editorial Reviews

"One of the most influential books of the 20th century."—Christianity Today

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