The New Faces of Christianity: Believing the Bible in the Global SouthOxford University Press, 1 sep 2006 - 272 pagina's 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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Pagina 11
... divine inspiration and inerrancy of the entire Bible text. Growing as it does out of debates within Christianity, the term can only with difficulty be applied to other faiths. It represents an American-Christian response to an American ...
... divine inspiration and inerrancy of the entire Bible text. Growing as it does out of debates within Christianity, the term can only with difficulty be applied to other faiths. It represents an American-Christian response to an American ...
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... divine, you are unlikely to accept the authority of flawed human authorities in this or any other matter. In the 1770s, the British government thought it was dealing not with an American War of Independence, but a “Presbyterian Revolt ...
... divine, you are unlikely to accept the authority of flawed human authorities in this or any other matter. In the 1770s, the British government thought it was dealing not with an American War of Independence, but a “Presbyterian Revolt ...
Pagina 23
... divine inspiration. The Xhosa prophet Ntsikana “discovered hymns fully formed on the hem of his cloak.” Reading such stories, Americans might recall the career of prophet Joseph Smith, with his secret writings, angelic interventions ...
... divine inspiration. The Xhosa prophet Ntsikana “discovered hymns fully formed on the hem of his cloak.” Reading such stories, Americans might recall the career of prophet Joseph Smith, with his secret writings, angelic interventions ...
Pagina 26
... divine message. Interpreted by ordinary believers, validated by the common experience of the Christian congregation, the Bible becomes the word of Christ's church, which cannot be gainsaid. A story told by Musimbi Kanyoro suggests just ...
... divine message. Interpreted by ordinary believers, validated by the common experience of the Christian congregation, the Bible becomes the word of Christ's church, which cannot be gainsaid. A story told by Musimbi Kanyoro suggests just ...
Pagina 27
... divine; and the need for absolute conviction. In the Euro-American tradition, this demographic profile sounds like the Methodist revival of eighteenth-century England, the American revivals of 1740 or 1798; and that age structure will ...
... divine; and the need for absolute conviction. In the Euro-American tradition, this demographic profile sounds like the Methodist revival of eighteenth-century England, the American revivals of 1740 or 1798; and that age structure will ...
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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 Gedeeltelijke weergave - 2006 |
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