Christianity with an Asian Face
Author: Peter C. Phan,
Publisher: Orbis Books
Published: 2015-02-19
Total Pages: 418
ISBN-13: 1608334716
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Author: Peter C. Phan,
Publisher: Orbis Books
Published: 2015-02-19
Total Pages: 418
ISBN-13: 1608334716
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: R.S. Sugirthharajah
Publisher: Orbis Books
Published: 2015-03-31
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 1608334546
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlthough Jesus was born in the western part of Asia, it was not until fifteen hundred years later that Asia experienced the full impact of Jesus' personality and teaching. Western missionaries, the primary transmitters of Christianity, left behind a Western understanding of Jesus. Today, Asians are seeking the face of the original Jesus - his Asian face. For them, all understanding of Jesus arise out of their particular contextual needs. Enriching the Western understanding of Jesus, Asians employ new interpretative resources, cultural symbols, and thought patterns as they make sense of Jesus for their own time and place.
Author: Chris Sugden
Publisher: OCMS
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 524
ISBN-13: 9781870345262
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Allan Anderson
Publisher: OCMS
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 612
ISBN-13: 9781870345439
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides a thematic discussion and case studies on the history and development of Pentecostal and Charismatic churches in the countries of South Asia, South East Asia and East Asia.
Author: Philip Jenkins
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006-09
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 0195300653
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNamed one of the top religion books of 2002 by USA Today, Philip Jenkins's phenomenally successful The Next Christendom permanently changed the way people think about the future of Christianity. In that volume, Jenkins called the world's attention to the little noticed fact that Christianity's center of gravity was moving inexorably southward, to the point that Africa may soon be home to the world's largest Christian populations. Now, in this brilliant sequel, Jenkins takes a much closer look at Christianity in the global South, revealing what it is like, and what it means for the future.The faith of the South, Jenkins finds, is first and foremost a biblical faith. Indeed, in the global South, many Christians identify powerfully with the world portrayed in the New Testament--an agricultural world very much like their own, marked by famine and plague, poverty and exile, until very recently a society of peasants, farmers, and small craftsmen. In the global South, as in the biblical world, belief in spirits and witchcraft are commonplace, and in many places--such as Nigeria, Indonesia, and Sudan--Christians are persecuted just as early Christians were. Thus the Bible speaks to the global South with a vividness and authenticity simply unavailable to most believers in the industrialized North.More important, Jenkins shows that throughout the global South, believers are reading the Bible with fresh eyes, and coming away with new and sometimes startling interpretations. Some of their conclusions are distinctly fundamentalist, but Jenkins finds an intriguing paradox, for they are also finding ideas in the Bible that are socially liberating, especially with respect to women's rights. Across Africa, Asia, and Latin America, such Christians are social activists in the forefront of a wide range of liberation movements.It's hard to overstate how interesting, how eye-opening, how frequently surprising (and sometimes disturbing) Jenkins' findings are. Anyone interested in the implications of these trends for the major denominations, for Muslim-Christian conflict, and for global politics will find The New Faces of Christianity provocative and incisive--and indispensable.
Author: Allan Anderson
Publisher: Wipf and Stock
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781610979177
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a collection of essays on Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity in Asia, a neglected but vitally important area of Christian studies. The many and various forms of Asian Pentecostalism certainly represent a truly remarkable expression of Christianity that will be with us for a long time to come, and we ignore this at our peril. This book presents Charismatic face of Christianity that is becoming its most prominent expression. The voices of these mostly Asian scholars are an important contribution to our understanding of Pentecostalism in Asia, they will open to the academic world new vistas in research and orientation, and they will set parameters for the future study of Christianity in the World's largest and most diverse continent. The book begins with thematic studies on Asian Charismatic Christianity, and then deals with the phenomenon in nine countries in three different regions, South Asia, South East Asia and East Asia, followed by conclusions. This is an important contribution to our understanding of global Christianity that should not be missed.
Author: Andreas Anangguru Yewangoe
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9789062036103
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sabrina S. Chan
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: 2022-08-30
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 0830847758
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAsian American Christians have diverse stories beyond the cultural expectations of the model minority or perpetual foreigner. In this compelling resource, a team from East Asian, Southeast Asian, and South Asian backgrounds encourage us to know our history, telling diverse stories of the Asian diaspora in America and the impacts of migration, culture, and faith.
Author: Peter C. Phan
Publisher: Paulist Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9780809143528
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"With the first book in this new series from Paulist Press, Fr. Peter C. Phan presents the history of Christianity in Vietnam, the conditions of Vietnamese Catholics in America, the challenges facing Vietnamese-American Catholics today, and suggestions on how to meet them."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Roman Malek
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2022-11-12
Total Pages: 459
ISBN-13: 1351545582
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection in five volumes tries to realize the desideratum of a comprehensive interdisciplinary work on the manifold faces and images of Jesus in China, which unites the Sinological, mission-historical, theological, art-historical, and other aspects. The first three volumes (vols. L/1-3) contain articles and texts which discuss the faces and images of Jesus Christ from the Tang dynasty to the present time. In a separate volume (vol. L/4) follows an annotated bibliography of the Western and Chinese writings on Jesus Christ in China and a general index with glossary. The iconography, i.e., the attempts of the Western missionaries and the Chinese to portray Jesus in an artistic way, will be presented in the fifth volume of this collection (vol. L/5). "This unique ongoing project continues to open a new, vital lens to learn more about China in its intellectual and cultural dimensions." John Witek in Journal of Asian Studies