The Cross-Cultural Process in Christian History

by Walls, Andrew F.

• ISBN13: 9781570753732
• ISBN10: 1570753733
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-02-01
• Publisher: Orbis Books

Summary

In The Cross-Cultural Process in christian History, Andrew F. Walls shows he has not lost the capacity to surprise readers with new insights into things they thought long settled. In essays that sparkle with wit and insight Walls reaches back to Eusebius of Edessa in the fourth century and down to the contemporary world. His seer's eyes reach from "Old Athens" and "New Jerusalem", to the vast continents of South America and Asia, to his beloved Africa. On the way he offers fresh understandings of 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.

Author Biography

Andrew F. Walls is Professor in the University of Edinburgh and Director of the Scottish Institute of Missionary Studies at the University of Aberdeen. His book, The Missionary Movement in Christian History, was named one of Christianity Today's hundred most influential books of the 20th century

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Part One The Transmission of Christian Faith
A History of the Expansion of Christianity Reconsidered
Assessing Christian Progress and Decline	3	(24)
Christianity in the Non-Western World
A Study in the Serial Nature of Christian Expansion	27	(22)
From Christendom to World Christianity
Missions and the Demographic Transformation of the Church	49	(23)
The Ephesian Moment
At a Crossroads in Christian History	72	(13)
Part Two Africa in Christian History
Africa in Christian History
Retrospect and Prospect	85	(31)
African Christianity in the History of Religions	116	(20)
Africa as the Theatre of Christian Engagement with Islam in the Nineteenth Century	136	(29)
Samuel Ajayi Crowther (1807-1891)
Patterns of African Christianity in the Nineteenth Century	155	(10)
The Significance of Harry Sawyerr	165	(29)
Part Three Vignettes of the Missionary Movement from the West
Carrying the White Man's Burden
Some British Views of the National Vocation in the Imperial Era	177	(17)
The Protestant Missionary Awakening in Its European Context	194	(65)
The Missionary Movement
A Lay Fiefdom?	215	(21)
The Multiple Conversions of Timothy Richard
A Paradigm of Missionary Experience	236	(23)
The Scottish Missionary Diaspora	259	(20)
Missiologist of the Road
David Jacobus Bosch (1929-1992)	273	(6)
Index	279