By Lamin Sanneh, Michael McClymond
The Wiley-Blackwell spouse to international Christianity provides a suite of essays that discover more than a few subject matters on the subject of the increase, unfold, and impression of Christianity during the world.
- Features contributions from well known students of background and faith from round the world
- Addresses the origins and worldwide enlargement of Christianity over the process millennia
- Covers a variety of subject matters on the subject of Christianity, together with ladies, worship, sacraments, tune, visible arts, structure, and plenty of more
- Explores the advance of Christian traditions over the last centuries throughout numerous continents and the increase in secularization
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They are also known from inscriptions around the Mediterranean world, where they are called theosebeis, those who revere God. It is not apparent that these “Godfearers” were organized in any way, or that their beliefs were standardized. In many cases, they may be people who befriended Jewish communities or contributed to their upkeep. But it is likely that some gentiles were attracted by the Jewish law and subscribed to it in some respects (Feldman 1993: 342–382). According to Josephus, The masses have long since shown a keen desire to adopt our religious observances; and there is not one city, Greek or barbarian, nor a single nation, to which our custom of abstaining from work on the seventh day has not spread, and where fasts and the lighting of lamps and many of our prohibitions in the matter of food are not observed.
Ten Themes in the Essays The status of “Europe” within World Christianity It is striking to see how frequently Europe is mentioned in the chapters that follow. Although no longer perceived as central, Europe is, nevertheless, crucial to the task of self‐definition and re‐definition involved in World Christianity. To be sure, since the 1980s the Europe‐centered and Reformation‐plus‐Enlightenment story has to a large extent been displaced by a story of cross‐cultural encounters of Europe with the rest of the world in maritime, colonialist, and missiological contexts.
