Ecumenism and Independency in World Christianity

Historical Studies in Honour of Brian Stanley
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-43753-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 15, 372 Seiten, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 534 g

Reihe: Theology and Mission in World Christianity

‘Ecumenism’ and ‘independency’ suggest two distinct impulses in the history of Christianity: the desire for unity, co-operation, connectivity, and shared belief and practice, and the impulse for distinction, plurality, and contextual translation. Yet ecumenism and independency are better understood as existing in critical tension with one another. They provide a way of examining changes in World Christianity. Taking their lead from the internationally acclaimed research of Brian Stanley, in whose honour this book is published, contributors examine the entangled nature of ecumenism and independency in the modern global history of Christianity. They show how the scrutiny afforded by the attention to local, contextual approaches to Christianity outside the western world, may inform and enrich the attention to transnational connectivity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Chow, Alexander

Wild-Wood, Emma

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Missionswissenschaft, Missionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Ökumenik, Konfessionskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

& Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Ecumenism and Independency in World Christianity

Emma Wild-Wood

1 Brian Stanley: Scholar of World Christian History

David Bebbington

Part 1: Studying World Christianity
2 1899–1900: Ecumenism and Independency in the Emerging World History of Christianity

Mark Noll

3 Independency in Ecumenical Christianity

David M. Thompson

4 Mission: Integrated or Autonomous? Implications for the Study of World Christianity

Kirsteen Kim

5 Evangelical Revivals in Twentieth Century Christianity: Reflections on the East African Revival in the Light of Revivals in East Asia

Kevin Ward

6 Creation Care in Latin America: Lessons from Catholics and Evangélicos

Allen Yeh

Part 2: Christians Working Together
7 The Missionary Concerns of Brunswick Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Leeds, in the Victorian Era

David Bebbington

8 Baptist Students in Cambridge: Denominational and Ecumenical Identities, from the 1920s to the 1940s

Ian Randall

9 ‘You are old, Father William’: Generational Abrasiveness in the Missionary Movement

Andrew F. Walls

10 Field Workers and Mission Leaders in Tension: Practical Ecumenism in the Shanxi Mission

Andrew T. Kaiser

11 The Advance of Pentecostalism in China, 1907–1937

Rolf Gerhard Tiedemann

12 Sacred Music and Christian Transnationalism in 1920s-1930s China and Japan

Dana L. Robert

Part 3: Pluriform Christianity
13 China, Social Ethics and the European Enlightenment

Stewart J. Brown

14 ‘The Lutheran AggressionControversy’: Caste and Class Conflict of Christians in 19th Century South India

Robert Eric Frykenberg

15 Edinburgh 1910 Onward: Cheng Jingyi, Vedanayagam S. Azariah and the Ecumenical Movement in Asia

Marina Xiaojing Wang

16 Revolutionary or Reforming? Christian Engagement in Politics during Military-Backed Governments

Sebastian C. H. Kim

17 Urbanisation, Diaspora, and the Tenacity of Chinese Evangelicalism

Alexander Chow

Afterword: Ecclesiological Considerations for Ecumenism and Independency

Alexander Chow

Bibliography of Brian Stanley’s Writings

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Alexander Chow is Senior Lecturer in Theology and World Christianity in the School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh, and is co-director of the Centre for the Study of World Christianity. He is co-editor of the journal Studies in World Christianity (Edinburgh University Press) and is editor of the Chinese Christianities Series (University of Notre Dame Press). He is author of two books, most recently Chinese Public Theology: Generational Shifts and Confucian Imagination in Chinese Christianity (Oxford 2018).

Emma Wild-Wood is Senior lecturer in African Christianity and African Indigenous Religions and co-director of the Centre for the Study of World Christianity at the University of Edinburgh. Previously she taught in DR Congo, Uganda and Cambridge, UK. She is co-editor of the journal Studies in World Christianity and co-editor of the book series Religion in Transforming Africa published by James Currey. Her latest book is The Mission of Apolo Kivebulaya: Religious Change in the African Great Lakes, c. 1870-1835 (James Currey 2020).