The Missionary Movement in Christian History by Andrew F Walls

The Missionary Movement in Christian History by Andrew F Walls

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 The Gospel as the Prisoner and Liberator of Culture 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 Walls' work, providing extraordinary insights and successful counters to secular critiques of world Christianity.

Gornik, Mark R.: - Mark R. Gornik is director of City Seminary of New York. He served previously as the founding pastor of New Song Community Church in Baltimore and is also the author of To Live in Peace: Biblical Faith and the Changing Inner City.

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ISBN 13	9781570750595
ISBN 10	1570750599
Title	The Missionary Movement in Christian History
Author	Andrew F Walls
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Orbis Books (USA)
Year published	1996-09-20
Number of pages	266
Prizes	Winner of Christianity Today Book Award (Top 25) 1997
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