Ecumenism and independency in world Christianity : : historical studies in honour of Brian Stanley / / edited by Alexander Chow, Emma Wild-Wood.

• Superior document: Theology and mission in world Christianity ; Volume 15
• TeilnehmendeR: Chow, Alexander,; Wild-Wood, Emma,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Theology and mission in world Christianity ; Volume 15.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

‘Ecumenism’ and ‘independency’ suggest two distinct impulses in the history of Christianity: the desire for unity, co-operation, connectivity, and shared belief and practice, and the impulse for distinction, plurality, and contextual translation. Yet ecumenism and independency are better understood as existing in critical tension with one another. They provide a way of examining changes in World Christianity. Taking their lead from the internationally acclaimed research of Brian Stanley, in whose honour this book is published, contributors examine the entangled nature of ecumenism and independency in the modern global history of Christianity. They show how the scrutiny afforded by the attention to local, contextual approaches to Christianity outside the western world, may inform and enrich the attention to transnational connectivity.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Ecumenism and Independency in World Christianity -- Emma Wild-Wood -- 1 1899–1900: Ecumenism and Independency in the Emerging World History of Christianity -- Mark Noll -- 2 Independency in Ecumenical Christianity -- David M. Thompson -- 3 Mission: Integrated or Autonomous? Implications for the Study of World Christianity -- Kirsteen Kim -- 4 Evangelical Revivals in Twentieth Century Christianity: Reflections on the East African Revival in the Light of Revivals in East Asia -- Kevin Ward -- 5 Creation Care in Latin America: Lessons from Catholics and Evangélicos -- Allen Yeh -- 6 The Missionary Concerns of Brunswick Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Leeds, in the Victorian Era -- David Bebbington -- 7 Baptist Students in Cambridge: Denominational and Ecumenical Identities, from the 1920s to the 1940s -- Ian Randall -- 8 ‘You are old, Father William’: Generational Abrasiveness in the Missionary Movement -- Andrew F. Walls -- 9 Field Workers and Mission Leaders in Tension: Practical Ecumenism in the Shanxi Mission -- Andrew T. Kaiser -- 10 The Advance of Pentecostalism in China, 1907–1937 -- Rolf Gerhard Tiedemann -- 11 Sacred Music and Christian Transnationalism in 1920s-1930s China and Japan -- Dana L. Robert -- 12 China, Social Ethics and the European Enlightenment -- Stewart J. Brown -- 13 ‘The Lutheran Aggression Controversy’ : Caste and Class Conflict of Christians in 19th Century South India -- Robert Eric Frykenberg -- 14 Urbanisation, Diaspora, and the Tenacity of Chinese Evangelicalism -- Alexander Chow -- Afterword: Ecclesiological Considerations for Ecumenism and Independency -- Alexander Chow -- Bibliography of Brian Stanley’s Writings -- Index.