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词条 World Christianity
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  1. History of the term

  2. Notable figures

  3. See also

  4. References

World Christianity or global Christianity is a term that attempts to convey the global nature of the Christian religion. 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.”[1] It also includes indigenous or diasporic forms in Western Europe and North America.[2]

History of the term

The term world Christianity can first be found in the writings of Francis John McConnell in 1929 and Henry P. Van Dusen in 1947.[3][4] The term would likewise be used by the mission historian Kenneth Scott Latourette to speak of the "World Christian Fellowship" and "World Christian Community."[5][6] 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.[7]

The current usage of the term puts much less emphasis in missions and ecumenism.[7] 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.[8][9][10] Hence, "world Christianity" has more recently been used to describe the diversity and the multiplicity of Christianity across its two thousand year history.[7]

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.[11]

Notable figures

Some notable figures in the academic study of world Christianity include Andrew Walls,[12] Lamin Sanneh,[13] and Brian Stanley,[14] all three of whom are associated with the “Yale-Edinburgh Group on the History of the Missionary Movement and World Christianity.”[15] 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.[16]

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. Some examples of this include the Pentecostal Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen and the Catholic Peter C. Phan.[17][18]

See also

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  • Inculturation
  • Missiology

References

1. ^{{cite book|page=2|title=Christianity as a World Religion|author-last1=Kim|author-first1=Sebastian|author-last2=Kim|author-first2=Kirsteen|publisher=Continuum|location=London|date=2008}}
2. ^{{cite book|author=Jehu Hanciles|title=Beyond Christendom: Globalization, African Migration, and the Transformation of the West|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vmCDAwAAQBAJ|year=2008|publisher=Orbis Books|isbn=978-1-60833-103-1}}
3. ^{{Cite book|url=http://www.worldcat.org/title/human-needs-and-world-christianity/oclc/893126|title=Human needs and world Christianity|last=McConnell|first=Francis John|date=1929|publisher=Friendship Press|year=|isbn=|location=New York|pages=|language=English|quote=|via=}}
4. ^{{Cite book|url=http://www.worldcat.org/title/world-christianity-yesterday-today-tomorrow/oclc/823535&referer=brief_results|title=World Christianity: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow|last=Van Dusen|first=Henry P.|date=1947|publisher=Abingdon-Cokesbury Press|year=|isbn=|location=New York|pages=|language=English|quote=|via=}}
5. ^{{Cite book|url=http://www.worldcat.org/title/toward-a-world-christian-fellowship/oclc/1149344|title=Toward a world Christian fellowship|last=Latourette|first=Kenneth Scott|date=1938|publisher=Association Press|year=|isbn=|location=New York|pages=|language=English|quote=|via=}}
6. ^{{Cite book|url=http://www.worldcat.org/title/emergence-of-a-world-christian-community/oclc/396146|title=The Emergence of a World Christian Community|last=Latourette|first=Kenneth Scott|date=1949|publisher=Yale University Press|year=|isbn=|location=New Haven|pages=|language=English|quote=|via=}}
7. ^1 2 {{Cite journal|last=Phan|first=Peter C.|author-link=Peter C. Phan|date=2012|title=World Christianity: Its Implications for History, Religious Studies, and Theology|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/horizons/article/world-christianity-its-implications-for-history-religious-studies-and-theology/DC26D946FC1FA4452741E7E28B921072|journal=Horizons|volume=39|issue=2|pages=171–188|doi=10.1017/S0360966900010665|issn=2050-8557}}
8. ^{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hNq6BwAAQBAJ|title=Missionary Movement in Christian History: Studies in the Transmission of Faith|first=|date=1996|publisher=Orbis Books|year=|isbn=978-1-60833-106-2|location=|pages=|quote=|via=|author=Andrew F. Walls}}
9. ^{{cite journal|last=Robert|first=Dana L.|date=April 2000|title=Shifting Southward: Global Christianity Since 1945|url=http://www.internationalbulletin.org/issues/2000-02/2000-02-050-robert.pdf|journal=International Bulletin of Missionary Research|volume=24|issue=2|pages=50–58}}
10. ^{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b-hUWm88QGkC|title=The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity|last=Jenkins|first=Philip|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2011|isbn=9780199767465|location=New York}}
11. ^{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8gbz-xMP1zYC|title=Whose Religion Is Christianity?: The Gospel Beyond the West|date=9 October 2003|publisher=Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing|isbn=978-0-8028-2164-5|pages=22–23|author=Lamin Sanneh}}
12. ^{{cite book|title=Understanding World Christianity: The Vision and Work of Andrew F. Walls|date=2011|publisher=Orbis Books|location=Maryknoll, NY|editor-last2=Gornik|editor-first2=Mark R.|editor-last3=McLean|editor-first3=Janice A.|editor-last1=Burrows|editor-first1=William R.}}
13. ^{{cite book|title=A New Day: Essays on World Christianity in Honor of Lamin Sanneh|date=2010|publisher=Peter Lang|location=New York|editor-last1=Akinade|editor-first1=Akintunde E.}}
14. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/brian-stanley|title=Professor Brian Stanley|last=|first=|date=|website=School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh|publisher=|accessdate=29 October 2016}}
15. ^{{Cite web|url=http://divinity-adhoc.library.yale.edu/Yale-Edinburgh/|title=Yale-Edinburgh Group|last=|first=|date=|website=Yale Divinity Library|publisher=|access-date=27 July 2016}}
16. ^{{Cite journal|last = Hermann|first = Adrian|last2 = Burlacioiu|first2 = Ciprian|date = 2016|title = Introduction: Klaus Koschorke and the "Munich School" Perspective on the History of World Christianity|jstor = 10.5325/jworlchri.6.1.0004|journal = Journal of World Christianity|volume = 6|issue = 1|pages = 4–27|doi = 10.5325/jworlchri.6.1.0004|pmid =|via =}}
17. ^{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L8_wCAAAQBAJ&pg=PA121|title=The Dialogical Spirit: Christian Reason and Theological Method in the Third Millennium|last=Yong|first=Amos|publisher=James Clark and Co.|year=2015|isbn=|location=Cambridge|pages=121–148|chapter=Whither Evangelical Theology? The Work of Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen as a Case Study of Contemporary Trajectories|author-link=Amos Yong|via=}}
18. ^{{Cite journal|last=Phan|first=Peter C.|date=2008|title=Doing Theology in World Christianity: Different Resources and New Methods|jstor=10.5325/jworlchri.1.1.0027|journal=Journal of World Christianity|volume=1|issue=1|doi=10.5325/jworlchri.1.1.0027|pages=27–53}}

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