The Changing Face Of Christianity

Author : Lamin Sanneh
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198039402
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Changing Face of Christianity written by Lamin Sanneh and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-03-10 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past century, Christianity's place and role in the world have changed dramatically. In 1900, 80 percent of the world's Christians lived in Europe and North America. Today, more than 60 percent of the world's Christians live outside of that region. This change calls for a reexamination of the way the story of Christianity is told, the methodological tools for its analysis, and its modes of expression. Perhaps most significant is the role of Africa as the new Christian heartland. The questions and answers about Christianity and its contemporary mission now being developed in the African churches will have enormous influence in the years to come. This volume offers nine new essays addressing this sea-change and its importance for the future of Christianity. Some contributions consider the development of "non-Western" forms of Christianity, others look at the impact of these new Christianities in the West. The authors cover a wide range of topics, from the integration of witchcraft and Christianity in Nigeria and the peacemaking role of churches in Mozambique to the American Baptist reception of Asian Christianity. The Changing Face of Christianity shows the striking cultural differences between the new world Christianity and its western counterpart. But with so many new immigrants in Europe and North America, the faith's fault lines are not purely geographical. The new Christianity now thrives in American and European settings, and northerners need to know this faith better. At stake is their ability to be good neighbors-and perhaps to be good Christian citizens of the world.

Author : Philip Jenkins
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195300653
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Faces of Christianity written by Philip Jenkins and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-09 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best-sellling author of The New Christendom continues his study of the growth of Christianity in the southern regions of the world, examining the influence of the Bible on the peoples of Africa, Asia, and Latin America, including the impact on growing liberation movements and the rise of women's rights.

Author : Lamin Sanneh
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190292164
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Changing Face of Christianity written by Lamin Sanneh and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-03-10 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past century, Christianity's place and role in the world have changed dramatically. In 1900, 80 percent of the world's Christians lived in Europe and North America. Today, more than 60 percent of the world's Christians live outside of that region. This change calls for a reexamination of the way the story of Christianity is told, the methodological tools for its analysis, and its modes of expression. Perhaps most significant is the role of Africa as the new Christian heartland. The questions and answers about Christianity and its contemporary mission now being developed in the African churches will have enormous influence in the years to come. This volume offers nine new essays addressing this sea-change and its importance for the future of Christianity. Some contributions consider the development of "non-Western" forms of Christianity, others look at the impact of these new Christianities in the West. The authors cover a wide range of topics, from the integration of witchcraft and Christianity in Nigeria and the peacemaking role of churches in Mozambique to the American Baptist reception of Asian Christianity. The Changing Face of Christianity shows the striking cultural differences between the new world Christianity and its western counterpart. But with so many new immigrants in Europe and North America, the faith's fault lines are not purely geographical. The new Christianity now thrives in American and European settings, and northerners need to know this faith better. At stake is their ability to be good neighbors-and perhaps to be good Christian citizens of the world.

Author : Frederick W. Schmidt
Publisher : Church Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0819218014
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Changing Face of God written by Frederick W. Schmidt and published by Church Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2000-06 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Does the face of God change? Years ago I would have said, 'No.' Countless hymns, passage of Scripture and confessions of faith assert or imply the changelessness of God. To take issue with traditions that are centuries, if not millennia old, seemed to be daunting and misguided....But when the great professions of confidence in God harden into philosophical propositions, one is bound to ask: What difference would it make to say that God has only one face? Even if true in some sense, the fact of the matter is that features each of us would count as necessary and changeless would be a matter of considerable debate." - From the Introduction In 1998/99 five scholars presented lectures at Washington National Cathedral about our images of God and what difference they make. This book, and its companion videos, will allow parish study groups and individuals to consider and discuss the viewpoints of Marcus Borg, Karen Armstrong, Jack Miles, James Cone, and Andrew Sung Park.

Author : Ian H. Henderson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Changing Face of Judaism, Christianity, and Other Greco-Roman Religions in Antiquity written by Ian H. Henderson and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Donald E. Miller
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520940938
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Pentecostalism written by Donald E. Miller and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007-09-03 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How and why is Christianity's center of gravity shifting to the developing world? To understand this rapidly growing phenomenon, Donald E. Miller and Tetsunao Yamamori spent four years traveling the globe conducting extensive on-the-ground research in twenty different countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Europe. The result is this vividly detailed book which provides the most comprehensive information available on Pentecostalism, the fastest-growing religion in the world. Rich with scenes from everyday life, the book dispel many stereotypes about this religion as they build a wide-ranging, nuanced portrait of a major new social movement.

Author : Clemens Nathan
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047427610
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Changing Face of Religion and Human Rights written by Clemens Nathan and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-06-02 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clemens N. Nathan has devoted a lifetime to the pursuit of Human Rights – to understanding and reflecting upon the concept of Human Rights; to participating in, and sometimes helping to create, organisations and mechanisms for the protection and promotion of Human Rights; to helping those who have been denied their Human Rights and to encouraging and supporting research into and scholarship on Human Rights. All this has been achieved by a man who has had no formal training in the field, but who has become a recognised expert through his extensive reading, through working with leading exponents, and by drawing upon his lively intellect, his wealth of culture and his knowledge of history, philosophy and religions. This volume, published under the auspices of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, offers insight into the challenging relationship between religion and human rights.

Author : Brian D. McLaren
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061969494
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A New Kind of Christianity written by Brian D. McLaren and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-02-09 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Some books provide us with information about the world, but every once in a while a book appears that enables us to imagine new, more wonderful worlds. [A New Kind of Christianity] is one of these.” —Peter Rollins, Ikon A New Kind of Christianity is Brian D. McLaren’s much anticipated follow-up to his breakthrough work of the emergent-church movement, A New Kind of Christian. Named by Time magazine as one of America’s top 25 evangelicals, McLaren, along with such contemporaries as N.T. Wright, Jim Wallis, and Rob Bell, is one of the acknowledged leaders of a new generation of Christians who want to update their faith for current times while remaining true to the core message of Jesus. In this controversial and thought-provoking book, McLaren explores the questions that will determine the shape of Christianity for the next 500 years.

Author : Michael Pocock
Publisher : Baker Academic
ISBN 13 : 080102661X
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Changing Face of World Missions written by Michael Pocock and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2005-10 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dramatic changes have taken place in global society and in the church that have implications for how the church does missions in the twenty-first century. This guide helps readers understand these trends.

Author : Quentin J Sch Robert Herbert Woods Jr
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458755312
Total Pages : 734 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Evangelical Media written by Quentin J Sch Robert Herbert Woods Jr and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-05-07 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As long as there has been a church, there has been Christian communication - people of the book bearing the good news from one place to another, persuading, teaching and even delighting an ever-broadening audience with the message of the gospel. Amid ongoing advances in technology and an ever-more-multicultural context, however, the time...