Missionary Movement in Christian History: Studies in the

Missionary Movement in Christian History: Studies in the Transmission of Faith

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 â€œThe Gospel as the Prisoner and Liberator of Cultureâ€ 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 Wallsâ€™ work, providing extraordinary insights and successful counters to secular critiques of world Christianity.
Country USA
Manufacturer ORBIS
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2015-03-30
Format Kindle eBook

Missionary Movement in Christian History: Studies in the Transmission of Faith