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World Christianity

August 23, 2023

World Christianity or global Christianity has been defined both as a term that attempts to convey the global nature of the Christian religion[1][2][3] and an academic field of study that encompasses analysis of the histories, practices, and discourses of Christianity as a world religion and its various forms as they are found on the six continents.[4] However, the term often focuses on "non-Western Christianity" which "comprises (usually the exotic) instances of Christian faith in 'the global South', in Asia, Africa, and Latin America."[5] It also includes Indigenous or diasporic forms of Christianity in the Caribbean,[6] South America,[6] Western Europe,[7] and North America.[7]

History of the term

 
 
Countries by percentage of Protestant Christians in 1938 and 2010. Pentecostal and Evangelical denominations within Protestantism fueled much of the global growth of Christianity in Latin America, the Caribbean, Oceania, and Sub-Saharan Africa.[2][3][6][8][9]

The term world Christianity can first be found in the writings of Francis John McConnell in 1929 and Henry P. Van Dusen in 1947.[10][11] Van Dusen was also instrumental in establishing the Henry W. Luce Visiting Professorship in World Christianity at Union Theological Seminary in 1945, with Francis C. M. Wei invited as its first incumbent.[12] The term would likewise be used by the American historian and Baptist missionary Kenneth Scott Latourette, Professor of the History of Christianity at Yale Divinity School, to speak of the "World Christian Fellowship" and "World Christian Community".[13][14] For these individuals, world Christianity was meant to promote the idea of Christian missions and ecumenical unity. However, after the end of World War II, as Christian missions ended in many countries, such as North Korea and China, and parts of Asia and Africa shifted due to decolonization and national independence, these aspects of world Christianity were largely lost.[15]

The current usage of the term puts much less emphasis in missions and ecumenism.[15] A number of historians have noted a twentieth-century "global shift" in Christianity, from a religion largely found in Europe and the Americas to one which is found in the Global South and Third World countries.[2][3][8][9][16] Hence, world Christianity has more recently been used to describe the diversity and the multiplicity of Christianity across its two-thousand-year history.[15]

Another term that is often used as analogous to world Christianity is the term global Christianity. However, scholars such as Lamin Sanneh have argued that global Christianity refers to a Eurocentric understanding of Christianity that emphasizes the replication of Christian forms and patterns in Europe, whereas world Christianity refers to the multiplicity of Indigenous responses to the Christian gospel.[17] Philip Jenkins and Graham Joseph Hill contend that Sanneh's distinction between world Christianity and global Christianity is artificial and unnecessary.[18][19]

Notable figures

 
Andrew Walls, a key pioneer in the field of World Christianity

Some notable figures in the academic study of world Christianity include Andrew Walls,[20] Lamin Sanneh,[21] and Brian Stanley,[22] all three of whom are associated with the "Yale-Edinburgh Group on the History of the Missionary Movement and World Christianity".[23] More recently, Klaus Koschorke and the “Munich School” of World Christianity has been highlighted for its contribution in understanding the polycentric nature of world Christianity.[24]

In contrast to these historians, there is a growing number of theologians who have been engaging the field of world Christianity from the discipline of systematic theology, ecclesiology, and missiology. Some examples of this include the Pentecostal Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen, Catholic Peter C. Phan, and the Baptist Graham Joseph Hill.[25][26][27][28]

See also

References

  1. ^ Barreto, Raimundo C. (2021). "Decoloniality and Interculturality in World Christianity: A Latin American Perspective". In Frederiks, Martha; Nagy, Dorottya (eds.). World Christianity: Methodological Considerations. Theology and Mission in World Christianity. Vol. 19. Leiden and Boston: Brill Publishers. pp. 65–91. doi:10.1163/9789004444867_005. ISBN 978-90-04-44486-7. ISSN 2452-2953. JSTOR j.ctv1sr6jvr.7. S2CID 234580589.
  2. ^ a b c Jenkins, Philip (2011). "The Rise of the New Christianity". The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 101–133. ISBN 9780199767465. LCCN 2010046058.
  3. ^ a b c Robert, Dana L. (April 2000). Hastings, Thomas J. (ed.). "Shifting Southward: Global Christianity Since 1945" (PDF). International Bulletin of Missionary Research. SAGE Publications on behalf of the Overseas Ministries Study Center. 24 (2): 50–58. doi:10.1177/239693930002400201. ISSN 0272-6122. S2CID 152096915. (PDF) from the original on 30 January 2022. Retrieved 16 February 2022.
  4. ^ Bonk, Jonathan J. (20 December 2014). "Why "World" Christianity?". Boston: The Center for Global Christianity and Mission at the Boston University School of Theology. from the original on 20 December 2014. Retrieved 18 February 2022.
  5. ^ Kim, Sebastian; Kim, Kirsteen (2008). "1. Christianity as a World Religion". Christianity as a World Religion. London and New York: Continuum International. pp. 1–22. doi:10.5040/9781472548894.ch-001. ISBN 978-1-4725-4889-4. S2CID 152998021.
  6. ^ a b c Schneider, Nicolas I. (2022). "Pentecostals/Charismatics". In Ross, Kenneth R.; Bidegain, Ana M.; Johnson, Todd M. (eds.). Christianity in Latin America and the Caribbean. Edinburgh Companions to Global Christianity. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. pp. 322–334. ISBN 9781474492164. JSTOR 10.3366/j.ctv2mzb0p5.
  7. ^ a b Hanciles, Jehu J. (2008). Beyond Christendom: Globalization, African Migration, and the Transformation of the West. Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books. ISBN 978-1-60833-103-1. OCLC 221663356.
  8. ^ a b Freston, Paul (2008). "The Changing Face of Christian Proselytization: New Actors from the Global South". In Hackett, Rosalind I. J. (ed.). Proselytization Revisited: Rights Talk, Free Markets, and Culture Wars (1st ed.). New York and London: Routledge. pp. 109–138. ISBN 9781845532284. LCCN 2007046731.
  9. ^ a b Robbins, Joel (October 2004). Brenneis, Don; Strier, Karen B. (eds.). "The Globalization of Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity". Annual Review of Anthropology. Annual Reviews. 33: 117–143. doi:10.1146/annurev.anthro.32.061002.093421. ISSN 1545-4290. JSTOR 25064848. S2CID 145722188.
  10. ^ McConnell, Francis John (1929). Human needs and world Christianity. New York: Friendship Press. OCLC 893126.
  11. ^ Van Dusen, Henry P. (1947). World Christianity: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow. New York: Abingdon-Cokesbury Press. OCLC 823535.
  12. ^ Robert, Dana L. "Historiographic Foundations". In Burrows, William R.; Gornik, Mark R.; McLean, Janice A. (eds.). Understanding World Christianity: The Vision and Work of Andrew F. Walls. Orbis Books. pp. 148–. ISBN 978-1-60833-021-8.
  13. ^ Latourette, Kenneth Scott (1938). Toward a world Christian fellowship. New York City: Association Press. OCLC 1149344.
  14. ^ Latourette, Kenneth Scott (1949). The Emergence of a World Christian Community. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press. OCLC 396146.
  15. ^ a b c Phan, Peter C. (March 2013). "World Christianity: Its Implications for History, Religious Studies, and Theology". Horizons. Cambridge and New York City: Cambridge University Press on behalf of the College Theology Society, Villanova University. 39 (2): 171–188. doi:10.1017/S0360966900010665. ISSN 2050-8557. LCCN 77648693. OCLC 858609197. S2CID 170971032.
  16. ^ Walls, Andrew F. (1996). Missionary Movement in Christian History: Studies in the Transmission of Faith. Orbis Books. ISBN 978-1-60833-106-2.
  17. ^ Lamin Sanneh (9 October 2003). Whose Religion Is Christianity?: The Gospel Beyond the West. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. pp. 22–23. ISBN 978-0-8028-2164-5.
  18. ^ Hill, Graham Joseph (2016). Global Church: reshaping our conversations, renewing our mission, revitalizing our churches. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic. pp. 419–420. ISBN 978-0-8308-9903-6. OCLC 922799591.
  19. ^ Jenkins, Philip (2007). The next Christendom: the coming of global Christianity (Rev. and expanded ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. xiii. ISBN 978-0-19-518307-8. OCLC 71004136.
  20. ^ Burrows, William R.; Gornik, Mark R.; McLean, Janice A., eds. (2011). Understanding World Christianity: The Vision and Work of Andrew F. Walls. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books.
  21. ^ Akinade, Akintunde E., ed. (2010). A New Day: Essays on World Christianity in Honor of Lamin Sanneh. New York: Peter Lang.
  22. ^ "Professor Brian Stanley". School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh. Retrieved 29 October 2016.
  23. ^ "Yale-Edinburgh Group". Yale Divinity Library. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
  24. ^ Hermann, Adrian; Burlacioiu, Ciprian (2016). "Introduction: Klaus Koschorke and the "Munich School" Perspective on the History of World Christianity". Journal of World Christianity. 6 (1): 4–27. doi:10.5325/jworlchri.6.1.0004. JSTOR 10.5325/jworlchri.6.1.0004.
  25. ^ Yong, Amos (2015). "Whither Evangelical Theology? The Work of Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen as a Case Study of Contemporary Trajectories". The Dialogical Spirit: Christian Reason and Theological Method in the Third Millennium. Cambridge: James Clark and Co. pp. 121–148. ISBN 9780227904350.
  26. ^ Phan, Peter C. (2008). "Doing Theology in World Christianity: Different Resources and New Methods". Journal of World Christianity. 1 (1): 27–53. doi:10.5325/jworlchri.1.1.0027. JSTOR 10.5325/jworlchri.1.1.0027.
  27. ^ Hill, Graham Joseph (2015). Global Church: Reshaping Our Conversations, Renewing Our Mission, Revitalizing Our Churches. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic. ISBN 978-0-8308-4085-4.
  28. ^ Hill, Graham Joseph (24 July 2020). Salt, Light, and a City, Second Edition: Conformation—Ecclesiology for the Global Missional Community: Volume 2, Majority World Voices. ISBN 9781532603259. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)

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World Christianity or global Christianity has been defined both as a term that attempts to convey the global nature of the Christian religion 1 2 3 and an academic field of study that encompasses analysis of the histories practices and discourses of Christianity as a world religion and its various forms as they are found on the six continents 4 However the term often focuses on non Western Christianity which comprises usually the exotic instances of Christian faith in the global South in Asia Africa and Latin America 5 It also includes Indigenous or diasporic forms of Christianity in the Caribbean 6 South America 6 Western Europe 7 and North America 7 Contents 1 History of the term 2 Notable figures 3 See also 4 References 5 Further readingHistory of the term Edit Countries by percentage of Protestant Christians in 1938 and 2010 Pentecostal and Evangelical denominations within Protestantism fueled much of the global growth of Christianity in Latin America the Caribbean Oceania and Sub Saharan Africa 2 3 6 8 9 The term world Christianity can first be found in the writings of Francis John McConnell in 1929 and Henry P Van Dusen in 1947 10 11 Van Dusen was also instrumental in establishing the Henry W Luce Visiting Professorship in World Christianity at Union Theological Seminary in 1945 with Francis C M Wei invited as its first incumbent 12 The term would likewise be used by the American historian and Baptist missionary Kenneth Scott Latourette Professor of the History of Christianity at Yale Divinity School to speak of the World Christian Fellowship and World Christian Community 13 14 For these individuals world Christianity was meant to promote the idea of Christian missions and ecumenical unity However after the end of World War II as Christian missions ended in many countries such as North Korea and China and parts of Asia and Africa shifted due to decolonization and national independence these aspects of world Christianity were largely lost 15 The current usage of the term puts much less emphasis in missions and ecumenism 15 A number of historians have noted a twentieth century global shift in Christianity from a religion largely found in Europe and the Americas to one which is found in the Global South and Third World countries 2 3 8 9 16 Hence world Christianity has more recently been used to describe the diversity and the multiplicity of Christianity across its two thousand year history 15 Another term that is often used as analogous to world Christianity is the term global Christianity However scholars such as Lamin Sanneh have argued that global Christianity refers to a Eurocentric understanding of Christianity that emphasizes the replication of Christian forms and patterns in Europe whereas world Christianity refers to the multiplicity of Indigenous responses to the Christian gospel 17 Philip Jenkins and Graham Joseph Hill contend that Sanneh s distinction between world Christianity and global Christianity is artificial and unnecessary 18 19 Notable figures Edit Andrew Walls a key pioneer in the field of World ChristianitySome notable figures in the academic study of world Christianity include Andrew Walls 20 Lamin Sanneh 21 and Brian Stanley 22 all three of whom are associated with the Yale Edinburgh Group on the History of the Missionary Movement and World Christianity 23 More recently Klaus Koschorke and the Munich School of World Christianity has been highlighted for its contribution in understanding the polycentric nature of world Christianity 24 In contrast to these historians there is a growing number of theologians who have been engaging the field of world Christianity from the discipline of systematic theology ecclesiology and missiology Some examples of this include the Pentecostal Veli Matti Karkkainen Catholic Peter C Phan and the Baptist Graham Joseph Hill 25 26 27 28 See also Edit Christianity portal World portalAcculturation Afro Brazilian religions Catholic Church and the Age of Discovery Cultural assimilation Inculturation Indigenous church mission theory Latin American liberation theology Missiology Native American people and Mormonism Neo charismatic movement Political influence of Evangelicalism in Latin America Prosperity theology Reverse mission Timeline of Christian missions Translations of the Bible Bible translations into Native American languages Yale Edinburgh GroupReferences Edit Barreto Raimundo C 2021 Decoloniality and Interculturality in World Christianity A Latin American Perspective In Frederiks Martha Nagy Dorottya eds World Christianity Methodological Considerations Theology and Mission in World Christianity Vol 19 Leiden and Boston Brill Publishers pp 65 91 doi 10 1163 9789004444867 005 ISBN 978 90 04 44486 7 ISSN 2452 2953 JSTOR j ctv1sr6jvr 7 S2CID 234580589 a b c Jenkins Philip 2011 The Rise of the New Christianity The Next Christendom The Coming of Global Christianity Oxford and New York Oxford University Press pp 101 133 ISBN 9780199767465 LCCN 2010046058 a b c Robert Dana L April 2000 Hastings Thomas J ed Shifting Southward Global Christianity Since 1945 PDF International Bulletin of Missionary Research SAGE Publications on behalf of the Overseas Ministries Study Center 24 2 50 58 doi 10 1177 239693930002400201 ISSN 0272 6122 S2CID 152096915 Archived PDF from the original on 30 January 2022 Retrieved 16 February 2022 Bonk Jonathan J 20 December 2014 Why World Christianity Boston The Center for Global Christianity and Mission at the Boston University School of Theology Archived from the original on 20 December 2014 Retrieved 18 February 2022 Kim Sebastian Kim Kirsteen 2008 1 Christianity as a World Religion Christianity as a World Religion London and New York Continuum International pp 1 22 doi 10 5040 9781472548894 ch 001 ISBN 978 1 4725 4889 4 S2CID 152998021 a b c Schneider Nicolas I 2022 Pentecostals Charismatics In Ross Kenneth R Bidegain Ana M Johnson Todd M eds Christianity in Latin America and the Caribbean Edinburgh Companions to Global Christianity Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press pp 322 334 ISBN 9781474492164 JSTOR 10 3366 j ctv2mzb0p5 a b Hanciles Jehu J 2008 Beyond Christendom Globalization African Migration and the Transformation of the West Maryknoll New York Orbis Books ISBN 978 1 60833 103 1 OCLC 221663356 a b Freston Paul 2008 The Changing Face of Christian Proselytization New Actors from the Global South In Hackett Rosalind I J ed Proselytization Revisited Rights Talk Free Markets and Culture Wars 1st ed New York and London Routledge pp 109 138 ISBN 9781845532284 LCCN 2007046731 a b Robbins Joel October 2004 Brenneis Don Strier Karen B eds The Globalization of Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity Annual Review of Anthropology Annual Reviews 33 117 143 doi 10 1146 annurev anthro 32 061002 093421 ISSN 1545 4290 JSTOR 25064848 S2CID 145722188 McConnell Francis John 1929 Human needs and world Christianity New York Friendship Press OCLC 893126 Van Dusen Henry P 1947 World Christianity Yesterday Today Tomorrow New York Abingdon Cokesbury Press OCLC 823535 Robert Dana L Historiographic Foundations In Burrows William R Gornik Mark R McLean Janice A eds Understanding World Christianity The Vision and Work of Andrew F Walls Orbis Books pp 148 ISBN 978 1 60833 021 8 Latourette Kenneth Scott 1938 Toward a world Christian fellowship New York City Association Press OCLC 1149344 Latourette Kenneth Scott 1949 The Emergence of a World Christian Community New Haven Connecticut Yale University Press OCLC 396146 a b c Phan Peter C March 2013 World Christianity Its Implications for History Religious Studies and Theology Horizons Cambridge and New York City Cambridge University Press on behalf of the College Theology Society Villanova University 39 2 171 188 doi 10 1017 S0360966900010665 ISSN 2050 8557 LCCN 77648693 OCLC 858609197 S2CID 170971032 Walls Andrew F 1996 Missionary Movement in Christian History Studies in the Transmission of Faith Orbis Books ISBN 978 1 60833 106 2 Lamin Sanneh 9 October 2003 Whose Religion Is Christianity The Gospel Beyond the West Wm B Eerdmans Publishing pp 22 23 ISBN 978 0 8028 2164 5 Hill Graham Joseph 2016 Global Church reshaping our conversations renewing our mission revitalizing our churches Downers Grove IL IVP Academic pp 419 420 ISBN 978 0 8308 9903 6 OCLC 922799591 Jenkins Philip 2007 The next Christendom the coming of global Christianity Rev and expanded ed Oxford Oxford University Press p xiii ISBN 978 0 19 518307 8 OCLC 71004136 Burrows William R Gornik Mark R McLean Janice A eds 2011 Understanding World Christianity The Vision and Work of Andrew F Walls Maryknoll NY Orbis Books Akinade Akintunde E ed 2010 A New Day Essays on World Christianity in Honor of Lamin Sanneh New York Peter Lang Professor Brian Stanley School of Divinity University of Edinburgh Retrieved 29 October 2016 Yale Edinburgh Group Yale Divinity Library Retrieved 27 July 2016 Hermann Adrian Burlacioiu Ciprian 2016 Introduction Klaus Koschorke and the Munich School Perspective on the History of World Christianity Journal of World Christianity 6 1 4 27 doi 10 5325 jworlchri 6 1 0004 JSTOR 10 5325 jworlchri 6 1 0004 Yong Amos 2015 Whither Evangelical Theology The Work of Veli Matti Karkkainen as a Case Study of Contemporary Trajectories The Dialogical Spirit Christian Reason and Theological Method in the Third Millennium Cambridge James Clark and Co pp 121 148 ISBN 9780227904350 Phan Peter C 2008 Doing Theology in World Christianity Different Resources and New Methods Journal of World Christianity 1 1 27 53 doi 10 5325 jworlchri 1 1 0027 JSTOR 10 5325 jworlchri 1 1 0027 Hill Graham Joseph 2015 Global Church Reshaping Our Conversations Renewing Our Mission Revitalizing Our Churches Downers Grove IL IVP Academic ISBN 978 0 8308 4085 4 Hill Graham Joseph 24 July 2020 Salt Light and a City Second Edition Conformation Ecclesiology for the Global Missional Community Volume 2 Majority World Voices ISBN 9781532603259 a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a website ignored help Further reading EditAsamoah Gyadu Kwabena Chow Alexander Wild Wood Emma March 2021 Editorial The COVID 19 Pandemic and World Christianity Studies in World Christianity Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press 26 3 213 218 doi 10 3366 swc 2020 0306 eISSN 1750 0230 ISSN 1354 9901 Cabrita Joel Maxwell David Wild Wood Emma eds 2017 Relocating World Christianity Interdisciplinary Studies in Universal and Local Expressions of the Christian Faith Theology and Mission in World Christianity Vol 7 Leiden Brill Publishers doi 10 1163 9789004355026 ISBN 978 90 04 34262 0 ISSN 2452 2953 Frederiks Martha Nagy Dorottya eds 2020 World Christianity Methodological Considerations Theology and Mission in World Christianity Vol 19 Leiden Brill Publishers doi 10 1163 9789004444867 ISBN 978 90 04 44166 8 ISSN 2452 2953 S2CID 228894117 Hastings Adrian ed 2000 1999 A World History of Christianity Cambridge U K and Grand Rapids Michigan Wm B Eerdmans ISBN 978 0 8028 4875 8 Hunt Stephen J ed 2015 Handbook of Global Contemporary Christianity Themes and Developments in Culture Politics and Society Brill Handbooks on Contemporary Religion Vol 10 Leiden Brill Publishers doi 10 1163 9789004291027 ISBN 978 90 04 26538 7 ISSN 1874 6691 Brenneman Todd M Fundamentalist Christianity From the American Margins to the Global Stage In Hunt 2015 pp 75 92 Ng Peter Tze Ming Chinese Christianity A Global Local Perspective In Hunt 2015 pp 152 166 Poon Michael Christian Social Engagement in a Globalising Age In Hunt 2015 pp 247 265 Thorsen Jakob Egeris Trends in Global Catholicism The Refractions and Transformations of a World Church In Hunt 2015 pp 27 48 Wilkinson Michael The Emergence Development and Pluralisation of Global Pentecostalism In Hunt 2015 pp 93 112 Jenkins Philip 2011 The Next Christendom The Coming of Global Christianity 3rd ed New York Oxford University Press doi 10 1093 0195146166 001 0001 ISBN 9780199767465 LCCN 2010046058 OCLC 678924439 Wilken Robert Louis 2013 The First Thousand Years A Global History of Christianity New Haven and London Yale University Press ISBN 978 0 300 11884 1 JSTOR j ctt32bd7m LCCN 2012021755 Young F Lionel III 2021 World Christianity and the Unfinished Task A Very Short Introduction Eugene OR Cascade Books ISBN 978 1 7252 6654 4 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title World Christianity amp oldid 1154184684, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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