Ecumenism and Independency in World Christianity

Ecumenism and Independency in World Christianity
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2020-09-07
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004437541

Essays written in honour of Brian Stanley on the entangled nature of ecumenism and independency in the modern global history of Christianity. They demonstrate transnational connectivity as well as local and contextual expressions of Christianity.

Celebrating a Century of Ecumenism

Celebrating a Century of Ecumenism
Author: John A. Radano
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 357
Release: 2012-04-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0802867057

Modern ecumenism traces its roots back to the 1910 World Missionary Conference in Edinburgh. Celebrating a Century of Ecumenism brings readers up to date on one hundred years of global dialogue between many different church traditions, including Anglican, Lutheran, Methodist, Roman Catholic, Pentecostal, Evangelical, Orthodox, Baptist, Disciples of Christ, Oriental Orthodox, and more. Eighteen essays by authors representing a wide spectrum of denominational interests outline the achievements of this movement toward unity. The first part of the book focuses on multilateral dialogue that involved a variety of churches attempting to delineate common ground, with considerable progress reported. The second part describes bilateral discussions between two churches or groups of churches. Celebrating a Century of Ecumenism is one small marker along the way to the unity that many Christians desire, and the report it provides will encourage those involved in ecumenical discussions. Contributors: S. Wesley Ariarajah Peter C. Bouteneff Ralph Del Colle Lorelei F. Fuchs Donna Geernaert Jeffrey Gros Helmut Harder William Henn Margaret O'Gara John A. Radano Cecil M. Robeck Jr. Ronald G. Roberson William G. Rusch Mary Tanner Geoffrey Wainwright Jared Wicks Susan K. Wood

Apostolicity

Apostolicity
Author: John G. Flett
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2016-05-23
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0830899731

At the heart of the ecumenical discussions over the past century lies the issue of what constitutes the apostolicity of the church. In an attempt to forge structural agreements, these discussions have ignored the diversity of world Christianity. In this groundbreaking study, John Flett presents a bold account of an apostolicity that embraces plurality.

Christianity in the Twentieth Century

Christianity in the Twentieth Century
Author: Brian Stanley
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 501
Release: 2018
Genre: History
ISBN: 0691196842

"[This book] charts the transformation of one of the world's great religions during an age marked by world wars, genocide, nationalism, decolonization, and powerful ideological currents, many of them hostile to Christianity"--Amazon.com.

The East African Revival

The East African Revival
Author: Mr Kevin Ward
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2013-06-28
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 140948176X

From the 1930s the East African Revival influenced Christian expression in East Central Africa and around the globe. This book analyses influences upon the movement and changes wrought by it in Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya, Tanzania and Congo, highlighting its impact on spirituality, political discourse and culture. A variety of scholarly approaches to a complex and changing phenomenon are juxtaposed with the narration of personal stories of testimony, vital to spirituality and expression of the revival, which give a sense of the dynamism of the movement. Those yet unacquainted with the revival will find a helpful introduction to its history. Those more familiar with the movement will discover new perspectives on its influence.

The Oxford Handbook of Ecumenical Studies

The Oxford Handbook of Ecumenical Studies
Author: Geoffrey Wainwright
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 705
Release: 2021
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0199600848

This handbook is currently in development, with individual articles publishing online in advance of print publication. At this time, we cannot add information about unpublished articles in this handbook, however the table of contents will continue to grow as additional articles pass through the review process and are added to the site. Please note that the online publication date for this handbook is the date that the first article in the title was published online. For more information, please read the site FAQs.

The Mission of Apolo Kivebulaya

The Mission of Apolo Kivebulaya
Author: Emma Wild-Wood
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2020
Genre: History
ISBN: 1847012469

A vivid portrayal of Kivebulaya's life that interrogates the role of indigenous agents as harbingers of change under colonization, and the influence of emerging polities in the practice of Christian faiths.

Chinese Public Theology

Chinese Public Theology
Author: Alexander Chow
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2018
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0198808690

It has been widely recognized that Christianity is the fastest growing religion in one of the last communist-run countries of the world: the People's Republic of China. Yet it would be a mistake to describe Chinese Christianity as merely a clandestine faith or, as hoped by the Communist Party of China, a privatized religion. Alexander Chow argues that Christians in mainland China have been constructing a more intentional public theology to engage the Chinese state and society, since the end of the Cultural Revolution (1966-76). Chinese Public Theology recalls the events which have led to this transformation and examines the developments of Christianity across three generations of Chinese intellectuals from the state-sanctioned Protestant church, the secular academy, and the growing urban renaissance in Calvinism. Moreover, Chow shows how each of these generations have provided different theological responses to the same sociopolitical moments of the last three decades. This study illustrates how a growing understanding of Chinese public theology has been developed through a subconscious intermingling of Christian and Confucian understandings of public intellectualism. These factors result in a contextually-unique understanding of public theology, but also one which is faced by contextual limitations as well. With this in mind, Chow draws from the Eastern Orthodox doctrine of theosis and the Chinese traditional teaching of the unity of Heaven and humanity (Tian ren heyi) to offer a way forward in the construction of a Chinese public theology.

World Christianity

World Christianity
Author: Hanciles, Jehu, J.
Publisher: Orbis Books
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2021-11-17
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1608339114

"Provides a critical reassessment of the study of world Christianity that connects historical developments to current debates and new trajectories"--