Missionary Movement from the West : A Biography from Birth to Old Age

Walls, Andrew F.; Stanley, Brian (EDT); Bediako, Gillian Mary (FRW)

ISBN 10: 0802848974 / ISBN 13: 9780802848970

Edité par Eerdmans, 2023

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• Titre: Missionary Movement from the West : A Biography from Birth to Old Age
• Éditeur: Eerdmans
• Date de parution: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0802848974
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780802848970
• Reliure: Couverture souple
• État de l'article: New

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Synopsis

The Gospel Coalition Book Award in Missions & the Global Church (2023)

The long-awaited work of a pioneer of missiology and global Christianity
  
The history of the missions is complex and fraught. Though modern missions began with European colonialism, the outcome was a largely non-Western global Christianity. Highly esteemed scholar Andrew Walls explores every facet of the movement, including its history, theory, and future.

Walls locates the birth of the Protestant missionary movement in the West with the Puritans and Pietists and their efforts to convert the Native Americans they displaced. Tracing the movement into the twentieth century, Walls shows how colonialism and missionary work turned out to be essentially incompatible. Missionaries must live on another culture's terms, and their goal--the establishment of churches of every nation--depends on accepting new, indigenous Christians as equals. Now that Christianity has become primarily an African, Latin American, and Asian religion rather than a European one, the dynamics of the church's mission have transformed. Sensitive to this shift, Walls indicates new areas of listening to and learning from this new center of Christianity and speculates on the theological contributions from a truly global church.

Throughout his long and fruitful career, Walls told the story of missions as a dedicated Christian scholar, teacher, and mentor. Prior to his passing in 2021, he entrusted the editing of his lectures to his friends and students. The result of this labor of love, The Missionary Movement from the West is a must-read for scholars of missiology, world Christianity, and church history.

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Andrew F. Walls (1928-2021) was an influential and beloved historian of Christian missions ending with the new era of the globalized church. He was a devoted participant-observer and learner in the work of world evangelization, and he was teacher and mentor to many current missiologists. Before his death he invited trusted students and colleagues to edit his renowned lectures into this book.

Brian Stanley is professor of world Christianity anddirector of the Centre for the Study of World Christianityat University of Edinburgh School of Divinity. Aninternational authority on the missionary movement, he isthe author of The History of the Baptist MissionarySociety, 1792-1992 and The Bible and the Flag: Protestant Missions and British Imperialism in theNineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. "