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Understanding World Christianity : The Vision and Work of Andrew F. Walls / edited by William R. Burrows, Mark R. Gornik, and Janice A. McLean. - Maryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books, c2011. - ix, 294 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Part I. A man with a large map -- ch. 1. Andrew F. Walls as mentor / ch. 2. Andrew F. Walls, Methodist local preacher and hymn writer / ch. 3. Andrew F. Walls as teacher in Africa / Part II. Breaking boundaries, building new ways of scholarship -- ch. 4. Challenging the academy, breaking barriers / ch. 5. Founding the Centre for the Study of Christianity in the Non-Western World / ch. 6. Changing the course of mission and world Christian studies / ch. 7. Theological education as embodiment of Jesus / Part III. Themes in the transmission of Christian faith -- ch. 8. Post-Western wine, post-Christian wineskins? : the Bible and the third wave awakening / ch. 9. Conversion: individual and cultural / ch. 10. Ecclesiology, Andrew F. Walls, and the fortunate subversion of the church / ch. 11. Historiographic foundations from Latourette and Van Dusen to Andrew F. Walls / ch. 12. Andrew F. Walls for Americans / ch. 13. Andrew F. Walls and documenting world Christianity in the twenty-first century / Part V. Africa's place in Christian history -- ch. 14. Turning that which is already there toward Christ : the contribution of Andrew F. Walls to understanding Africa Christianity / ch. 15. Gospel and culture : Andrew F. Walls in Africa, Africa in Andrew F. Walls / ch. 16. Migration and the globalization of Christianity / Conclusion : the emergence of world Christianity and the remaking of theology / William R. Burrows, Mark R. Gornik, and Janice A. McLean -- Kwame Bediako -- I. Howard Marshall -- Allison Howell and Maureen Iheanacho -- Wilbert R. Shenk -- Brian Stanley -- Jonathan J. Bonk -- Moonjang Lee -- Lamin Sanneh -- William R. Burrows -- Stephen B. Bevans --Part IV. Transformations in understanding Christian history -- Dana L. Robert -- Mark Noll -- Michael Poon -- J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu -- Gillian Bediako -- Jehu J. Hanciles -- Kwame Bediako.

9781570759499 (pbk.) 1570759499 (pbk.)

2011014799

015890053 Uk


Walls, Andrew F.


Christian biography.

BR1725 .W293 / U53 2011

266.0092
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