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The Missionary Movement from the West

A Biography from Birth to Old Age

By: Andrew F. Walls

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The Missionary Movement from the West

A Biography from Birth to Old Age

By: Andrew F. Walls

A long-awaited culmination of scholarship by a pioneer of missiology and global Christianity The history of the missions is complex and fraught. Though modern missions began with European colonialism, the outcome was a largely non-Western global Christianity. Highly esteemed scholar Andrew Walls explores every facet of the movement, including its history, theory, and future. Walls locates the birth of the Protestant missionary movement in the West with the Puritans and Pietists and their efforts to convert the Native Americans they displaced. Tracing the movement into the twentieth century, Walls shows how colonialism and missionary work turned out to be essentially incompatible. Missionaries must live on another culture’s terms, and their goal—the establishment of churches of every nation—depends on accepting new, indigenous Christians as equals. Now that Christianity has become primarily an African, Latin American, and Asian religion rather than a European one, the dynamics of the church’s mission have transformed. Sensitive to this shift, Walls indicates new areas of listening to and learning from this new center of Christianity and speculates on the theological contributions from a truly global church. Throughout his long and fruitful career, Walls told the story of missions as a dedicated Christian scholar, teacher, and mentor. Prior to his passing in 2021, he entrusted the editing of his lectures to his friends and students. The result of this labor of love, The Missionary Movement from the West is a must-read for scholars of missiology, world Christianity, and church history.

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Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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1467467634

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9781467467636

The Cross-Cultural Process in Christian History

Studies in the Transmission and Appropriation of Faith

By: Andrew F. Walls

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The Cross-Cultural Process in Christian History

Studies in the Transmission and Appropriation of Faith

By: Andrew F. Walls

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

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442

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Orbis Books

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1608331822

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9781608331826

Missionary Societies and the Fortunate Subversion of the Church

By: Andrew Walls

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Missionary Societies and the Fortunate Subversion of the Church

By: Andrew Walls

Africa was not evangelized by the European (and American) churches, but by the European (and American) mission societies, a process that thoroughly changed the religious geography of Africa. This book traces the origin of this change to William Carey, who proposed in 1792 to make the mission society as a voluntary association the "Means" to propagate the Gospel. The mission societies did what the churches could not have done. In this seminal paper Andrew Walls explores this often forgotten feature of missionary history.

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African Books Collective

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9996066673

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9789996066672

A Theology of Race and Place

Liberation and Reconciliation in the Works of Jennings and Carter

By: Andrew Thomas Draper

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A Theology of Race and Place

Liberation and Reconciliation in the Works of Jennings and Carter

By: Andrew Thomas Draper

In a world marked by the effects of colonial displacements, slavery's auction block, and the modern observatory stance, can Christian theology adequately imagine racial reconciliation? What factors have created our society's racialized optic--a view by which nonwhite bodies are objectified, marginalized, and destroyed--and how might such a gaze be resisted? Is there hope for a church and academy marked by difference rather than assimilation? This book pursues these questions by surveying the works of Willie James Jennings and J. Kameron Carter, who investigate the genesis of the racial imagination to suggest a new path forward for Christian theology. Jennings and Carter both mount critiques of popular contemporary ways of theologically imagining Christian identity as a return to an ethic of virtue. Through fresh reads of both the "tradition" and liberation theology, these scholars point to the particular Jewish flesh of Jesus Christ as the ground for a new body politic. By drawing on a vast array of biblical, theological, historical, and sociological resources, including communal experiments in radical joining, A Theology of Race and Place builds upon their theological race theory by offering an ecclesiology of joining that resists the aesthetic hegemony of whiteness. .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }

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349

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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149828082X

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9781498280822

Religion Versus Empire?

British Protestant Missionaries and Overseas Expansion, 1700-1914

By: Andrew Porter

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Religion Versus Empire?

British Protestant Missionaries and Overseas Expansion, 1700-1914

By: Andrew Porter

This is the only book that addresses the relations between religion, Protestant missions, and empire building, linking together all three fields of study by taking as its starting point the early eighteenth century Anglican initiatives in colonial North America and the Caribbean. It considers how the early societies of the 1790s built on this inheritance, and extended their own interests to the Pacific, India, the Far East, and Africa. Fluctuations in the vigor and commitment of the missions, changing missionary theologies, and the emergence of alternative missionary strategies, are all examined for their impact on imperial expansion. Other themes include the international character of the missionary movement, Christianity's encounter with Islam, and major figures such as David Livingstone, the state and politics, and humanitarianism, all of which are viewed in a fresh light.

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Manchester University Press

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071902823X

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Book's by Andrew F. Walls

The Missionary Movement from the West

The Missionary Movement from the West

The Cross-Cultural Process in Christian History

The Cross-Cultural Process in Christian History

Missionary Societies and the Fortunate Subversion of the Church

Missionary Societies and the Fortunate Subversion of the Church

A Theology of Race and Place

A Theology of Race and Place

Religion Versus Empire?

Religion Versus Empire?

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