The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, Volume V The Twentieth Century: Themes and Variations in a Global Context

by Hutchinson, Mark P.

• ISBN13: 9780198702252
• ISBN10: 0198702256
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2018-12-25
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The-five volume Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions series is governed by a motif of migration ('out-of-England'). It first traces organized church traditions that arose in Britain and Ireland as Dissenters distanced themselves from a state church defined by diocesan episcopacy, the Book of Common Prayer, the Thirty-Nine Articles, and Royal Supremacy, but then follows those traditions as they spread beyond Britain and Ireland--and also analyses newer traditions that emerged downstream in other parts of the world from earlier forms of Dissent. Secondly, it does the same for the doctrines, church practices, stances toward state and society, attitudes toward Scripture, and characteristic patterns of organization that also originated in earlier British and Irish dissent, but that have often defined a trajectory of influence independent of ecclesiastical organizations.

The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, Volume V follows the spatial, cultural, and intellectual changes in dissenting identity and practice in the twentieth century, as these once European traditions globalized. While in Europe dissent was often against the religious state, dissent in a globalizing world could redefine itself against colonialism or other secular and religious monopolies. The contributors trace the encounters of dissenting Protestant traditions with modernity and globalization; changing imperial politics; challenges to biblical, denominational, and pastoral authority; local cultures and languages; and some of the century's major themes, such as race and gender, new technologies, and organizational change. In so doing, they identify a vast array of local and globalizing illustrations which will enliven conversations about the role of religion, and in particular Christianity.

Author Biography

Mark P. Hutchinson is Professor of History at Alphacrucis College in Sydney. He is an Australian intellectual historian who has published widely in the history of evangelical Protestantism (with a particular focus on Italian Protestantism) and Australian higher education. His publications include A Short History of Global Evangelicalism (Cambridge University Press, 2012).

Table of Contents

List of Contributors
Series Introduction, Timothy Larsen and Mark A. Noll
Introduction: Dissenting Traditions in Globalized Settings, Mark P. Hutchinson and Candy Gunther Brown
1. Encounters with Modernity among Received Spiritualities and Traditions, Candy Gunther Brown
2. The Dissenting Traditions and Politics in the Anglophone World, Gordon L. Heath
3. The Bible in the Twentieth-Century Anglophone World, Mark P. Hutchinson
4. Biblical Interpretation in the Majority World, K. K. Yeo
5. Dissenting preaching in the Twentieth Century Anglophone World, Mark P. Hutchinson
6. Preaching in the Global South, Jason A. Carter
7. Emergent and Adaptive Spiritualities in the Twentieth Century, Andy Lord
8. Glocalized and Indigenized Theologies in the Twentieth Century, Mark P. Hutchinson
9. Organizing for Ministry in the Anglophone World: Reception, Adaptation, and Innovation, Barry Ensign-George
10. The Manufacture of Dissent: Reflexive Christian Traditions in a Global Setting, Graham A. Duncan
11. Dissenting Traditions and Missionary Imaginations: Novel Perspectives on the Twentieth Century, Justin D. Livingstone
12. Gender, Race, and Twentieth-Century Dissenting traditions, Laura Rademaker
13. Mission, Evangelism, and Translation: From the West to Elsewhere, Atola Longkumer
14. From Reverse to Inverse to Omni-nodal Dissenting Protestant Mission, Mark P. Hutchinson
15. Communications, New Technologies, and Innovation, J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu