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020 _a9781626982581
050 _aBR121.3
_b.W35 2017
100 _aWalls, Andrew F. (Andrew Finlay), author
245 _aCrossing cultural frontiers :
_bstudies in the history of world Christianity /
_cAndrew F. Walls ; edited by Mark R. Gornik
260 _aMaryknoll :
_bOrbis Books,
_c2017
300 _axii, 284 p. ;
_c24 cm
500 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index
505 _aPart 1. The transmission of Christian faith. World Christianity and the early church -- Origen, the father of mission studies -- Worldviews and Christian conversion -- Toward a theology of migration -- Globalization and the study of Christian history -- Part 2. Africa in Christian thought and history. The cost of discipleship : the witness of the African church -- A Christian experiment : the early Sierra Leone colony -- Christianity and the language issue : the early years of Protestant missions in West Africa -- The discovery of "African traditional religion" and its impact on religious studies -- Kwame Bediako and Christian scholarship in Africa -- Part 3. The missionary movement and the West. Missions and the English novel -- World parish to world church: John and Charles Wesley on home and oversea mission -- Missions and historical memory : Jonathan Edwards and David Brainerd -- Distinguished visitors : Tiyo Soga and Behari Lal Singh: in Europe and at home -- Western Christians in China : a chapter in a long history -- Building to last : Harold Turner and the study of religion -- Conclusion: The future of missiology : missiology as vocation
650 _aChristianity
700 _aGornik, Mark R.,
_eeditor
760 _b|iOnline version:|aWalls, Andrew F. (Andrew Finlay). |tCrossing cultural frontiers. Maryknoll : Orbis Books,
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