The Wiley Blackwell Companion to World Christianity E-Book

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Religion und Spiritualität
• Serie: Blackwell Companions to Religion
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 1866

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016

Beschreibung

The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to World Christianity presents a collection of essays that explore a range of topics relating to the rise, spread, and influence of Christianity throughout the world.

• Features contributions from renowned scholars of history and religion from around the world
• Addresses the origins and global expansion of Christianity over the course of two millennia
• Covers a wide range of themes relating to Christianity, including women, worship, sacraments, music, visual arts, architecture, and many more
• Explores the development of Christian traditions over the past two centuries across several continents and the rise in secularization

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The Wiley Blackwell Companion to World Christianity

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Lamin Sanneh and Michael J. McClymond

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Contents

Notes on Contributors

Abbreviations

CHAPTER 1 Introduction

“World Christianity” and Its Alternatives

Organization of the Volume

A “Word-Cloud” Analysis of the Text

Ten Themes in the Essays

Notes

Bibliography

I. Historical Section

A. The Roots (50-1750 CE)

CHAPTER 2 Jewish and Hellenic Worlds and Christian Origins

The Greek Bible

Translating Deities

New Philosophical Concepts

Natural Theology

The Immortality of the Soul

The Common Ethic

The Limits of Assimilation

Notes

Bibliography

CHAPTER 3 The “Triumph” of Hellenization in Early Christianity

Hellenization of Post-Exilic Judaism

Hellenization of Early Christianity

Hellenization and Contextual Theology

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

CHAPTER 4 Ancient Eastern Christianity

Earliest Asian Christianity

India

Early Theologies and Theologians in Asia

Religious Pressures and Persecutions: Zoroastrian and Muslim

Earliest Chinese Christianity

Bibliography

CHAPTER 5 Christianity and the European Conversions

Bibliography

CHAPTER 6 Byzantium and Islam in the Mediterranean World

Early Contacts, 632–842

Byzantine Response, 842–1025

Seljuk and Ottoman Turks, 1071–1453

Political Contacts

Polemics

Conclusions

Bibliography

CHAPTER 7 The Medieval Synthesis

Carolingian Christendom: The First Medieval Synthesis

Ninth–Early Tenth Centuries: Disintegration of the First Europe

Late Tenth–Eleventh Centuries: From Apocalypse to a New Synthesis

Twelfth–Thirteenth Centuries: The Third Medieval Synthesis

Fourteenth–Fifteenth Centuries: The Return of the Apocalypse and Later Medieval Spirituality

Bibliography

CHAPTER 8 Early Modern Missions and Maritime Expansion

Africa

Asia

The Americas

Bibliography

CHAPTER 9 Bibles, Printing, Books, Churches

Before the Reformation

Print and Protestantism

The Authorized Bible and Its Rivals

The Afterlife of the KJV

Conclusion

Bibliography

CHAPTER 10 The Protestant Reformation and the Catholic Reformation

The Catholic Reformation

Contrasts and Similarities

Bibliography

B. Issues in the Modern Period (1750-2000 CE)

CHAPTER 11 The Legacy of Christendom

The Rise of Christendom

The Nightmare of Christendom

Europe as Christendom

Christendom Endures

A Next Christendom?

Bibliography

CHAPTER 12 Slavery, Antislavery, and Christianity

Bibliography

CHAPTER 13 Medicine, Agriculture, and Technology in the Missionary Enterprise

General Considerations

Historical aspects

Missiological Issues

Notes

Bibliography

CHAPTER 14 Schools and Education in the Missionary Enterprise

Bibliography

CHAPTER 15 Conversion, Converts, and National Identity

Conversion, Converts, and Community

Conversion in History

Conversion and Evangelicalism

Biblical Conversion

Conversion and Pentecostal/Charismatic Identity

Conversion, Christendom, and National Identity

Modern Evangelicalism

Conversion, Identity, and Primal Cultures

Conversion, Rewards, and Contemporary Pentecostalism

Conclusion

Bibliography

CHAPTER 16 Church and State Relations in the Colonial Period

Bibliography

CHAPTER 17 Ideologies, the Quest for a Just Society, and Christian Responses

Introduction

Conflicts between Christianity and Ideology: A General Typology

Deepening Our Understanding of Ideologies: The (Often Ill-Conceived) Quest for a Better World

Christian Responses to the Challenge of Ideologies

The Future of Ideology

Bibliography

CHAPTER 18 The Ecumenical Movement: Why Violence, Why Not Peace?

Missionary Roots

Social Concerns

Christian Unity

New Beginnings: The World Council of Churches

A Growing Movement

Mission

Faith and Order

Life and Work

Church Unity

Ecumenical Movement without Borders

Bibliography

CHAPTER 19 Vatican II

Terms and Theology

Key Areas of Renewal and Inculturation in the Post-Vatican II Era

Vatican II’s Renewal and Inculturation: An Unfinished Project

Notes

Bibliography

CHAPTER 20 Christian Revival and Renewal Movements

The Evangelical Awakening in Britain and the Great Awakening in America

The Second Great Awakening in North America, 1790s–1840s

The Transatlantic Holiness Movement of the Nineteenth Century

Revivals in the Pacific Islands, Wales, and Korea, 1800–1910

North America: Early Pentecostalism, 1901–1940

North America: The Latter Rain Revival, 1940s, and Charismatic Renewal, 1960s–1970s

North America: The “Third Wave” of the Holy Spirit, 1980s–1990s

Twentieth-Century Revivals in Africa

Twentieth-Century Revivals in China and Korea

Twentieth-Century Revivals in Indonesia

Conclusion

Bibliography

II. Thematic Section

CHAPTER 21 Bible Translation, Culture, and Religion

Missionary Awakening

Indigenizing Theology

Indigenous Liberation

Encounter and Reciprocity

Function of Translation

Renewal and the Cultural Impetus

Assessment

Notes

Bibliography

CHAPTER 22 Christianity and Interreligious Encounters

Introduction

The New Testament and the Church Fathers

Later Catholic and Protestant Encounters: Catholic Encounters

Later Catholic and Protestant Encounters: Protestant Encounters

Bibliography

CHAPTER 23 Women in Church, State, and Society

Early Christianity through Fourth Century

Fifth through Ninth Centuries

Tenth to Fifteenth Centuries

European Expansion and the Reformation

Eighteenth to Twenty-First Centuries: Women Align for Social Reform

Negotiating Boundaries: Social Change and Domesticity

Ordination/Pastorship as the Last Liturgical Frontier

Conclusion: Women, Patterns of Ambiguity, and New Options

Notes

Bibliography

CHAPTER 24 Worship, Liturgy, Sacraments

Worship

Liturgy

Sacraments

Bibliography

CHAPTER 25 Freedom, Persecution, and the Status of Christian Minorities

Religious Human Rights in the Dickensian Era

Religious Freedom and International Law

What Are Religious Rights?

Freedom and Persecution of Christian Minorities: The Situation on the Ground

Religious Rights as Human Rights

Notes

Bibliography

CHAPTER 26 Christianity and “Western Classical” Music (1700–2000)

Bibliography

CHAPTER 27 Music in the New Churches

Music

Creativity

Africa

Asia

The Americas

Summary of Factors Influencing Indigenous Creativity

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

CHAPTER 28 Visual Arts in World Christianity

Towards a Theoretical Framework

Christian Art in Asia

Christian Art in Africa

Christian Art in Latin America

Notes

Bibliography

CHAPTER 29 Church Architecture Worldwide since 1800

Temple and Meetinghouse

Scholarly Approaches to Church Architecture

Reform Movements in Christian Worship

Classical Tradition

Gothic Revival

Intentional Contextualization

Modernism and Contextualization

Monumental Mega-Churches

Bibliography

CHAPTER 30 Charismatic Gifts

Was There a Twentieth-Century “Revival” of Charismatic Gifts?

The Practices of Divine Healing

The Gift of Tongues

The Gift of Prophecy

Exorcism or Deliverance from Evil Spirits

Conclusion: On Spiritual Improvisation

Bibliography

CHAPTER 31 Changing Uses of Old and New Media in World Christianity

Introduction: Outline and Definitions

Histories

Productions

Receptions

Conclusion: Media Innovations and World Christianity

Bibliography

CHAPTER 32 Global Evangelical and Pentecostal Politics

The Globalization of Christianity

Global Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism

Christianity and Islam: Law, Territory, and Power

Political Dimensions of Proselytization and Conversion

Southern Christianity and Violence

A New Christendom?

Christian Zionism in the Third World?

Protestantism in the Global South and Democracy

Bibliography

III. Christianity since 1800 An Analysis by Region and Traditions

CHAPTER 33 The Middle East and North Africa, I

Arab conquest of North Africa

Copts under Muslim rulers

Christianity in the Modern Era