The New Faces of Christianity: Believing the Bible in the Global SouthOxford University Press, 1 Σεπ 2006 - 272 σελίδες Named 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. |
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... African Christianity are long accustomed to speaking of AICs, African independent churches. That usage made sense in colonial times when small churches founded and led by black Africans were being compared with global white-led ...
... African Christianity are long accustomed to speaking of AICs, African independent churches. That usage made sense in colonial times when small churches founded and led by black Africans were being compared with global white-led ...
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... African expressed his confidence in the clear words of scripture, while the American stressed the need to interpret the Bible in the light of modern scholarship and contemporary mores. Eventually, the African bishop asked in ...
... African expressed his confidence in the clear words of scripture, while the American stressed the need to interpret the Bible in the light of modern scholarship and contemporary mores. Eventually, the African bishop asked in ...
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... African thinker, Christians of the global South are citizens of Jerusalem, and they follow the Bible; Americans and Europeans, residents of Athens, obey secular texts. And what has Athens to do with Jerusalem? Or as that other African ...
... African thinker, Christians of the global South are citizens of Jerusalem, and they follow the Bible; Americans and Europeans, residents of Athens, obey secular texts. And what has Athens to do with Jerusalem? Or as that other African ...
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... African and Asian churches. Despite all the financial difficulties faced particularly by African universities, global South scholars form a distinguished part of the global community of biblical learning, reading and publishing in the ...
... African and Asian churches. Despite all the financial difficulties faced particularly by African universities, global South scholars form a distinguished part of the global community of biblical learning, reading and publishing in the ...
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... Africa. Today, there are about two billion Christians, of whom 530 million live in Europe, 510 million in Latin America ... African dominated, so that the Nigerian branch will soon be its largest representative. The Seventh Day Adventist ...
... Africa. Today, there are about two billion Christians, of whom 530 million live in Europe, 510 million in Latin America ... African dominated, so that the Nigerian branch will soon be its largest representative. The Seventh Day Adventist ...
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3 Old and New | 42 |
4 Poor and Rich | 68 |
5 Good and Evil | 98 |
6 Persecution and Vindication | 128 |
7 Women and Men | 158 |
8 North and South | 178 |
Psalm 91 | 194 |
The Epistle of James | 195 |
Abbreviations | 200 |
Notes | 201 |
Scripture Index | 239 |
Index | 243 |
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The New Faces of Christianity: Believing the Bible in the Global South Philip Jenkins Περιορισμένη προεπισκόπηση - 2006 |
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