Sentences with phrase «world christianity»

His research interests include American Christianity and religion, soteriology, the history of Reformed theology, the Mercersburg Theology, and world Christianity.

New powers are emerging rapidly such as China and India, the former with a large church that is seeking to be part of world Christianity.

Hence the common descriptive categories of «church» and «sect»; of «right - wing» and «left - wing» Protestantism which make sense in distinguishing the divisions of Old World Christianity, are not applicable without confusion and distortion to the American scene.

This article originally appeared in James P. Mackey Studies in World Christianity, Volume 5 Part I (Edinburgh University Press) 1999, pp. 32 - 46.

Noll admits this limitation, and it is true that the great flowering of scholarly interest in world Christianity over the past fifteen years has been primarily an evangelical Protestant endeavor.

Embedded in The New Shape of World Christianity is a series of case studies.

The importance of underscoring this warning becomes clearest if we think of the cross-cultural exchanges involved within world Christianity.

He has traced the influence of the American model of evangelicalism on world Christianity and has shown its power.

The book is not really about the new shape of world Christianity but about one shape.

Beyond this formulation is the highly significant though still flickering frontier of world Christianity now emerging like a new universe bathed in dawn.

This vitality is transforming the face of world Christianity.

, Classic Texts in Mission and World Christianity, New York, Orbis Books, Maryknoll, 1995, p. 158.

That would be a terrible thing to visit upon world Christianity at the threshold of the Third Millennium.

Out of this meeting came the Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions, one of the most important contributions of American Protestantism to world Christianity.

The vice-chairmen, representing, as well as four men can be said to do so, the larger units of world Christianity — Orthodox, Anglican, Presbyterian and Free Churches — are the same.

Once that infrastructure is in place, there is little doubt that the subject of world Christianity as the unique legacy of the modern missionary movement will make its long - overdue impact and channel back some of its revitalized energy into the necessary transformation of our preCopernican historical universe.

Changing patterns of world order are thus integrally linked to religious history («World Christianity, the Missionary Movement and the Ugly American,» in World Order and Religion, edited by Wade Clark Roof).

Indeed, might not the entire structure of theological education change if it began to respond to the realities of world Christianity?

In any case, I wonder what the study of church history would look like if it had a global perspective — if it viewed world Christianity not with a sense of decline and uncertainty but with a sense of expansion and promise.

In 1954 he established the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity.

Lamin Sanneh, professor of missions and world Christianity at Yale Divinity School,...

«And come here because you see the whole range of world Christianity in micro.

However, the concept of a single church to hear a church - court case is no longer part of real - world Christianity.

The mainstream tendency to discount or rationalize the supernatural leads to all sorts of Western anxieties when confronting the spectacle of world Christianity.

He has served as dean of the Southeast Asia Graduate School of Theology and at present is professor of ecumenics and world Christianity at Union Theological Seminary in New York City.

Sanneh, professor of missions and world Christianity at Yale Divinity School, is one of the most influential interpreters of world Christianity today.

Bringing into view the implications of such diversity for faithful Christian living may be among the most important tasks for students of world Christianity.

He explores resources for developing the larger global frame of reference contemporary world Christianity requires.

That fundamental borderline continues to run through world Christianity today.

The book critiques the Western paradigms that dominate world Christian thinking and lead people to assume that world Christianity has an exclusively Western heritage.

Repeatedly the authors come back to the need to hold together in mutual reinforcement what Sanneh calls «the principles of local agency and indigenous cultural appropriation» and the overall framework of world Christianity's diversity.

World Christianity, by contrast, must be interpreted by a plurality of models of inculturation in line with the variety of local idioms and practices.

The mental habits of Christendom predispose us to look for one essence of the faith, with a corresponding global political structure as safeguard, whereas world Christianity challenges us to pay attention to the dynamic of power of the gospel and the open - ended character of communities of faith.»

World Christianity is what is really happening.

Although relatively isolated from the rest of world Christianity and fully integrated into Indian culture as a separate caste, it maintained a strong Christian identity that reached back through memory and tradition to St. Thomas, the apostle to the East.

World Christianity has not one center, but many

Our study team — ten American scholars and ten Indian scholars, journalists, and activists, supported by the Nagel Institute for the Study of World Christianity at Calvin College — traveled to the cities of Bangalore, Chennai, and New Delhi and witnessed the dangers firsthand.

Lian Xi, a professor of world Christianity at Duke Divinity School, has written extensively about China's modern encounter with Christianity.

Lamin Sanneh teaches missions and world Christianity and history at Yale Divinity School.

> Kosuke Koyama is John D.Rockefeller, Jr., Professor of Ecumenics and World Christianity at Union Theology Seminary in New York City.

While evangelicals remain a small minority in many countries, notes missions researcher Justin Long in crunching Operation World's latest research, world Christianity is becoming more evangelical.

Third World Christianity does not share this reticence.

The World Council, therefore, is probably the place where the liberal / ecumenical vision of world Christianity is purest, where the devotion to social - change goals is most fully realized.

The Lausanne combination of evangelicalism and social responsibility is probably closer to the spirit of Third World Christianity generally than is mainline American Christianity.

Not exact matches

Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are five of the biggest religions in the world.

In his great work The Gifts of the Jews, Thomas Cahill notes that Abram, progenitor of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, was himself an innovator, leaving behind a religious world where multiple Gods were credited with the responsibilities of daily life to follow a God who asked him to travel far and believe.

While the stories of each of the holidays are dissimilar, we still can find a meaningful and common bridge between Judaism and Christianity — religions which when their ideals are realized, both speak to the betterment of mankind and the improvement of this world we share.

He or she would face an English - speaking world that no longer necessarily believes that Christianity is a salutary force.

But Christianity, which actually caused a progressive social evolution in this world, must be killed right away, so we can start creating our own little gods and «spiritual systems».

My point is you are expecting the «LAST» major acknowledged religion in the world to be just as «like minded» today as Christianity.