Global evangelicalism : theology, history and culture in regional perspective / edited by Donald M. Lewis and Richard V. Pierard.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublisher: Downers Grove, Illinois : IVP Academic, an imprint of InterVarsity Press, [2014]Description: 312 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780830840571 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0830840575 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BR 1640 .G56 2014
Contents:
Part I. Theoretical issues. Defining evangelicalism / Mark A. Noll -- The theological impulse of evangelical expansion / Wilbert R. Shenk -- Globalization, religion and evangelicalism / Donald M. Lewis -- Part II. Evangelicalism at ground level regional case studies. Europe and North America / John Wolffe and Richard V. Pierard -- Africa / Ogbu Kalu -- Latin America / C. Ren�e Padilla -- Asia / Scott W. Sunquist -- Australasia and the Pacific Islands / Stuart Piggin and Peter Lineham -- Part III. Issues in evangelical encounters with culture. Ecumenism and interdenominationalism / David M. Thompson -- Evangelicals and gender / Sarah C. Williams.
Summary: "Over the past century, evangelicalism has taken on global proportions, spreading from its northern heartlands and forming new and burgeoning centers of vibrant life in the global South. Now, in Global Evangelicalism, a gathering of front-rank historians offer conceptual and regional overviews of evangelical Christianity." --Back Cover
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Includes indexes.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Theoretical issues. Defining evangelicalism / Mark A. Noll -- The theological impulse of evangelical expansion / Wilbert R. Shenk -- Globalization, religion and evangelicalism / Donald M. Lewis -- Part II. Evangelicalism at ground level regional case studies. Europe and North America / John Wolffe and Richard V. Pierard -- Africa / Ogbu Kalu -- Latin America / C. Ren�e Padilla -- Asia / Scott W. Sunquist -- Australasia and the Pacific Islands / Stuart Piggin and Peter Lineham -- Part III. Issues in evangelical encounters with culture. Ecumenism and interdenominationalism / David M. Thompson -- Evangelicals and gender / Sarah C. Williams.

"Over the past century, evangelicalism has taken on global proportions, spreading from its northern heartlands and forming new and burgeoning centers of vibrant life in the global South. Now, in Global Evangelicalism, a gathering of front-rank historians offer conceptual and regional overviews of evangelical Christianity." --Back Cover

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