scholarly journals Nauczanie misjologii w świecie chrześcijańskim i dla niego. Treść i metoda

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 85-99
Author(s):  
Peter C. Phan ◽  
Klaudyna Longinus
Keyword(s):  
Church Planting ◽  
Church History ◽  
Christian Missions ◽  
The West ◽  
History Of Christianity ◽  
Narrow Focus ◽  
History Of ◽  
World Christianity ◽  
The Relationship

The article begins with a brief defi nition of „World Christianity” and elaborates three theses for conceiving the relationship between missiology and theology, the understanding and practice of Christian missions, and the teaching of missiology. I argue that outside missiology there is no theology. I also reject the separation between church history and missiology, the division between the historic churches of the West and the „mission lands” of the rest, and a narrow focus of the goal of Christian missions on conversion and church-planting. Finally, I recommend a shift from „church history” to „history of Christianity.”

scholarly journals Teaching Missiology in and for World Christianity: Content and Method

2018 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 358-369
Author(s):  
Peter C. Phan
Keyword(s):  
Church Planting ◽  
Church History ◽  
Christian Missions ◽  
The West ◽  
History Of Christianity ◽  
Narrow Focus ◽  
History Of ◽  
World Christianity ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Relationship

The article begins with a brief definition of “World Christianity” and elaborates three theses for conceiving the relationship between missiology and theology, the understanding and practice of Christian missions, and the teaching of missiology. I argue that outside missiology there is no theology. I also reject the separation between church history and missiology, the division between the historic churches of the West and the “mission lands” of the rest, and a narrow focus of the goal of Christian missions on conversion and church-planting. Finally, I recommend a shift from “church history” to “history of Christianity.”

World Christianity: Its Implications for History, Religious Studies, and Theology

Horizons ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter C. Phan
Keyword(s):  
Academic Discipline ◽  
Church History ◽  
Theological Method ◽  
World Religion ◽  
History Of Christianity ◽  
Marginalized Groups ◽  
History Of ◽  
Pentecostal Churches ◽  
World Christianity ◽  
Popular Religiosity

ABSTRACTThe paper traces the emergence of the concept of “World Christianity” to designate a new academic discipline beyond ecumenical and missiological discussions. It then elaborates the implications of “World Christianity” for the History of Christianity in contrast to Church History and for the study of Christianity as a “world religion.” The paper argues for an expansion of the “cartography” and “topography” of Church History to take into account the contributions of ecclesiastically marginalized groups and neglected charismatic/pentecostal activities. Furthermore, it is urged that in the study of Christianity as a world religion greater attention be given to how local communities have received and transformed the imported Christianities, the role of popular religiosity, and the presence of Evangelical/Pentecostal Churches. Finally, it is suggested that “World Christianity” requires the expansion of theological method and reformulation of some key Christian doctrines.

scholarly journals Nekrolog. Leif Grane in memoriam

2001 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-14
Author(s):  
Henrik True
Keyword(s):  
Subject Area ◽  
Church History ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
History Of Christianity ◽  
The People ◽  
Church Life ◽  
Lutheran Theology ◽  
History Of ◽  
Church Service ◽  
The Relationship

In Memory of Leif GraneBy Henrik TrueIn his commemorative words Henrik True emphasizes Grane’s extensive command of his subject area. Certainly, the interpretation of Martin Luther’s theology was at the heart of his studies, and Grane’s publications about Luther constitute a life’s work in themselves. But beyond the work with the Reformer Grane produced works that will undoubtedly prove to be of lasting importance, too. This will be true, for example, about a number of books and articles about other periods in church history, in fact, there are few centuries in the history of Christianity to which Grane has not devoted an analysis. But it should not be forgotten that beyond his professional activity Grane was also a participant in the general debate on church matters as well as the cultural life of the people, and that he was also a priest.Precisely in considering these aspects of Grane’s life and work, one will find a considerable part of the explanation why it was so important for him to reflect deeply on the relationship between Luther and Grundtvig. That relationship was indeed a difficult one, which would turn out, if taken seriously in its complexity, to provide crucial insights to an understanding of the works of both writers. What is the issue here, is the very core of Luther’s reformatory thinking, scripturalism and its connection with the understanding of the content of the Gospel and the nature of the church service. These connections were of course of crucial importance to professional theology as well as to church life, and to Grane it was evident that this was a field which must not at any price be trivialized by offering simple solutions.Grundtvig’s .church view. must needs be maintained as a significant renewal of the Lutheran tradition, thus proving to be an indispensable intermediate link to a fruitful continuation of Lutheran theology and church life, also in a modem perspective.

Het gewicht van het zwaartepunt: Recht doen aan het wereldchristendom

2014 ◽  
Vol 68 (4) ◽  
pp. 261-276
Author(s):  
Eleonora Hof
Keyword(s):  
Global South ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
The West ◽  
History Of Christianity ◽  
Centre Of Gravity ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
World Christianity

Uncritically claiming that Christianity’s centre of gravity has shifted from the West to the global South is problematic because such a claim does not pay sufficient attention to the underlying power dynamics at play. I critique the popular conception of World Christianity where the West is tacitly omitted from the ‘World’ of World Christianity and therefore retains its normative character. Furthermore, I critique the usage of the concept of centre of gravity, because it perpetuates the language of power. Dismantling the binary between the West and ‘the rest’ involves both a theological reappropriation of centre and periphery and renewed attention to the history of Christianity.

At the Edge of Reformation

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Linehan
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
Black Death ◽  
The West ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Medieval Europe ◽  
History Of ◽  
Portuguese Society ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Church

This book springs from its author’s continuing interest in the history of Spain and Portugal—on this occasion in the first half of the fourteenth century between the recovery of each kingdom from widespread anarchy and civil war and the onset of the Black Death. Focussing on ecclesiastical aspects of the period in that region (Galicia in particular) and secular attitudes to the privatization of the Church, it raises inter alios the question why developments there did not lead to a permanent sundering of the relationship with Rome (or Avignon) two centuries ahead of that outcome elsewhere in the West. In addressing such issues, as well as of neglected material in Spanish and Portuguese archives, use is made of the also unpublished so-called ‘secret’ registers of the popes of the period. The issues it raises concern not only Spanish and Portuguese society in general but also the developing relationship further afield of the components of the eternal quadrilateral (pope, king, episcopate, and secular nobility) in late medieval Europe, as well as of the activity in that period of those caterpillars of the commonwealth, the secular-minded sapientes. In this context, attention is given to the hitherto neglected attempt of Afonso IV of Portugal to appropriate the privileges of the primatial church of his kingdom and to advance the glorification of his Castilian son-in-law, Alfonso XI, as God’s vicegerent in his.

Dependency in Africa: Stages of African Political Economy

1983 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 229-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amechi Okolo
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
International System ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
The West ◽  
Cheap Labour ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Common ◽  
First Contact ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

This paper traces the history of the relationship between Africa and the West since their first contact brought about by the outward thrust of the West, under the impetus of rising capitalism, in search of cheap labour and cheap raw material for its industries and expanding markets for its industrial products, both of which could be better ensured through domination and exploitation. The paper identifies five successive stages that African political economy has passed through under the impact of this relationship, each phase qualitatively different from the other but all having the common characteristic of domination-dependence syndrome, and each phase having been dictated by the dynamics of capitalism in different eras and by the dominant forces in the changing international system. Its finding is that the way to the latest stage, the dependency phase, was paved by the progressive proletarianization of the African peoples and the maintenance of an international peonage system. It ends by indicating the direction in which Africa can make a beginning to break out of dependency and achieve liberation.

scholarly journals Kristendomshistorie - hvad skal det forestille?

1989 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jakob Balling
Keyword(s):  
Church History ◽  
History Of Christianity ◽  
Main Emphasis ◽  
History Of ◽  
Distinct Period

In this paper the author presents and discusses some of the leading ideas in and behind his book “Kristendommen” (Copenhagen 1986). The concept of ‘history of Christianity’ is defined and compared with that of ‘church history’; but the main emphasis is on a discussion of the advantages and drawbacks of the system of periodization – governed by the principle of relatedness to a ‘civilization’ – which is used in the book. In this connection the notion of ‘Old Europe’ (AD 750/1100-1800) as a coherent and distinct period is particularly emphasized; this entails a discussion of three fundamental and interdependent concepts, valid for the period as a whole: that of ‘internal mission’, that of ‘reform’ and that of ‘clericalism’.

“Spirituals and Temporals”

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 99-111
Author(s):  
P. Bracy Bersnak ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The West ◽  
History Of ◽  
Church State Relations ◽  
State Relations ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The U.S

While Orestes Brownson’s works are the object of renewed interest, his writings on the relationship between Church and polity have received little notice. Some attention has been given to Brownson’s analysis of these issues in America, but little has been given to his views on Church and polity in Europe and the West more broadly. This article considers Brownson’s analysis of the history of Church-state relations in Europe to examine how it shaped his view of Church-state relations in the U.S. It then put Brownson in dialogue with subsequent Catholic debates in America about those relations down to the present.

The Idea of the Church in Christian History

1952 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 191-214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wilhelm Pauck
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Special Kind ◽  
Church History ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Special Importance ◽  
Christian Life ◽  
History Of Christianity ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Church ◽  
Christian History

It is customary to describe and interpret the history of Christianity as church history. To be sure, most church historians do not emphasize the special importance of the “church” in the Christian life they study and analyse; indeed, they deal with the idea of the church, with ecclesiological doctrines and with ecclesiastical practices as if they represented special phases of the Christian life. But, nevertheless, the fact that all aspects of Christian history are subsumed under the name and title of the “church” indicates that the character of Christianity is held to be inseparable from that of the “church”; the very custom of regarding Christian history as church history indicates that the Christian mind is marked by a special kind of self-consciousness induced by the awareness that the Christian faith is not fully actualized unless it is expressed in the special social context suggested by the term “church.”

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