The cross-cultural process in Christian history : studies in the transmission and appropriation of faith / Andrew F. Walls

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A history of the expansion of Christianity reconsidered : assessing Christian progress and decline -- Christianity in the non-Western world : a study in the serial nature of Christian expansion -- From Christendom to world Christianity : missions and the demographic transformation of the church -- The Ephesian moment : at a crossroads in Christian history -- Africa in Christian history : retrospect and prospect -- African Christianity in the history of religions -- Africa as the theatre of Christian engagement with Islam in the nineteenth century -- Samuel Ajayi Crowther (1807-1891) : patterns of African Christianity in the nineteenth century -- The significance of Harry Sawyerr -- Carrying the white man's burden : some British views of the national vocation in the imperial era -- The Protestant missionary awakening in its European context -- The missionary movement : a lay fiefdom? -- The multiple conversions of Timothy Richard : a paradigm of missionary experience -- The Scottish missionary diaspora -- Missiologist of the road : David Jacobus Bosch (1929-1992).

Walls shows how the demographic transformation of the church has brought us to a new "Ephesian moment." The church is challenged as never before to become one global body with its many cultural and ethnic members contributing their gifts. Former patterns of domination need to be superseded. His seer's eyes probe beneath the surface to bring the readerinsights into Pentecostalism, African traditional religion, and the ironic ways in which the Western missionary movement often accomplished things--both for good and for ill--that its agents never dreamed of.

The missionary movement in Christian history : studies in the transmission of faith / Andrew F. Walls

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The gospel as prisoner and liberator of culture -- Culture and coherence in Christian history -- The translation principle in Christian history -- Culture and conversion in Christian history -- Romans one and the modern missionary movement -- Origins of old northern and new southern Christianity -- The evangelical revival, the missionary movement, and Africa -- Black Europeans-White Africans: some missionary motives in West Africa -- The challenge of the African Independent Churches: The Anabaptists of Africa? -- Primal religious traditions in today's world -- Structural problems in mission studies -- Missionary vocation and the ministry: the first generation -- The western discovery of non-western Christian art -- The nineteenth-century missionary as scholar -- Humane learning and the missionary movement: 'the best thinking of the heathen' -- The domestic importance of the nineteenth-century medical missionary: 'the heavy artillery of the missionary army' -- The American dimension of the missionary movement -- Missionary societies and the fortunate subversion of the church -- The old age of the missionary movement.

"This book 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."--Jacket.

two copies in JPW collection