Evangelists of Empire?

Evangelists of Empire?

Author: Amanda Barry

Publisher: UoM Custom Book Centre

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 0980759404

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Utilising a range of source material and a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches, this ground-breaking collection offers the reader new ways of assessing the uneven paths of mission endeavours, and examines the ways in which Indigenous peoples responded to -- and took ownership of -- aspects of Christian and Western culture and spirituality.


Indigenous Evangelists and Questions of Authority in the British Empire 1750-1940

Indigenous Evangelists and Questions of Authority in the British Empire 1750-1940

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2015-08-25

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 9004299343

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This is the first full-length historical study of indigenous evangelists across a range of societies, geographical regions and colonial regimes and the first to focus on the complex issues of authority surrounding the evangelists. It answers a need frequently voiced in recent studies of Christian missions. Most scholars now acknowledge that the remarkable expansion of Christianity in Africa, Asia and the Pacific in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries owed far more to the efforts of indigenous preachers than to the foreign missionaries who loom so large in publications. This book addresses that concern making an excellent introduction to the role of indigenous evangelists in the spread of Christianity, and the many countervailing pressures with which these individuals had to contend. It also includes in the introductory discussions useful statements of the current state of scholarship and theoretical debates in this field.


Evangelicals and Empire

Evangelicals and Empire

Author: Bruce Ellis Benson

Publisher: Brazos Press

Published: 2008-10-01

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 1441201890

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This groundbreaking collection considers empire from a global perspective, exploring the role of evangelicals in political, social, and economic engagement at a time when empire is alternately denounced and embraced. It brings noted thinkers from a range of evangelical perspectives together to engage the most explosive and discussed theorists of empire in the first decade of the twenty-first century--Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri. Using their work as a springboard, the contributors grapple with the concept of empire and how evangelicalism should operate in the world of empire.


Evangelism after Pluralism

Evangelism after Pluralism

Author: Bryan Stone

Publisher: Baker Academic

Published: 2018-05-01

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 1493414569

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What does it mean to evangelize ethically in a multicultural climate? Following his successful Evangelism after Christendom, Bryan Stone addresses reasons evangelism often fails and explains how it can become distorted as a Christian practice. Stone urges us to consider a new approach, arguing for evangelism as a work of imagination and a witness to beauty rather than a crass effort to compete for converts in pluralistic contexts. He shows that the way we lead our lives as Christians is the most meaningful tool of evangelism in today's rapidly changing world.


Missions and Empire

Missions and Empire

Author: Norman Etherington

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2005-07-14

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13: 9780191531064

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The explosive expansion of Christianity in Africa and Asia during the last two centuries constitutes one of the most remarkable cultural transformations in the history of mankind. Because it coincided with the spread of European economic and political hegemony, it tends to be taken for granted that Christian missions went hand in hand with imperialism and colonial conquest. In this book historians survey the relationship between Christian missions and the British Empire from the seventeenth century to the 1960s and treat the subject thematically, rather than regionally or chronologically. Many of these themes are treated at length for the first time, relating the work of missions to language, medicine, anthropology, and decolonization. Other important chapters focus on the difficult relationship between missionaries and white settlers, women and mission, and the neglected role of the indigenous evangelists who did far more than European or North American missionaries to spread the Christian religion - belying the image of Christianity as the 'white man's religion'.


Jews, Christians, and the Roman Empire

Jews, Christians, and the Roman Empire

Author: Natalie B. Dohrmann

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2013-11

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 0812245334

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This volume revisits issues of empire from the perspective of Jews, Christians, and other Romans in the third to sixth centuries. Through case studies, the contributors bring Jewish perspectives to bear on longstanding debates concerning Romanization, Christianization, and late antiquity.


Evangelism after Christendom

Evangelism after Christendom

Author: Bryan Stone

Publisher: Brazos Press

Published: 2007-03-01

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 1441201548

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Most people think of evangelism as something an individual does--one person talking to one or more other people about the gospel. Bryan Stone, however, argues that evangelism is the duty and call of the entire church as a body of witness. Evangelism after Christendom explores what it means to understand and put to work evangelism as a rich practice of the church, grounding evangelism in the stories of Israel, Jesus, and the Apostles. This thorough treatment is marked by an astute sensitivity to the ways in which Christian evangelism has in the past been practiced violently, intentionally or unintentionally. Pointing to exemplars both Protestant and Catholic, Stone shows pastors, professors, and students how evangelism can work nonviolently.