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Book Synopsis‘Ecumenism’ and ‘independency’ suggest two distinct impulses in the history of Christianity: the desire for unity, co-operation, connectivity, and shared belief and practice, and the impulse for distinction, plurality, and contextual translation. Yet ecumenism and independency are better understood as existing in critical tension with one another. They provide a way of examining changes in World Christianity. Taking their lead from the internationally acclaimed research of Brian Stanley, in whose honour this book is published, contributors examine the entangled nature of ecumenism and independency in the modern global history of Christianity. They show how the scrutiny afforded by the attention to local, contextual approaches to Christianity outside the western world, may inform and enrich the attention to transnational connectivity.
Table of Contents& Notes on Contributors Introduction: Ecumenism and Independency in World Christianity Emma Wild-Wood 1 Brian Stanley: Scholar of World Christian History David Bebbington Part 1: Studying World Christianity 2 1899–1900: Ecumenism and Independency in the Emerging World History of Christianity Mark Noll 3 Independency in Ecumenical Christianity David M. Thompson 4 Mission: Integrated or Autonomous? Implications for the Study of World Christianity Kirsteen Kim 5 Evangelical Revivals in Twentieth Century Christianity: Reflections on the East African Revival in the Light of Revivals in East Asia Kevin Ward 6 Creation Care in Latin America: Lessons from Catholics and Evangélicos Allen Yeh Part 2: Christians Working Together 7 The Missionary Concerns of Brunswick Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Leeds, in the Victorian Era David Bebbington 8 Baptist Students in Cambridge: Denominational and Ecumenical Identities, from the 1920s to the 1940s Ian Randall 9 ‘You are old, Father William’: Generational Abrasiveness in the Missionary Movement Andrew F. Walls 10 Field Workers and Mission Leaders in Tension: Practical Ecumenism in the Shanxi Mission Andrew T. Kaiser 11 The Advance of Pentecostalism in China, 1907–1937 Rolf Gerhard Tiedemann 12 Sacred Music and Christian Transnationalism in 1920s-1930s China and Japan Dana L. Robert Part 3: Pluriform Christianity 13 China, Social Ethics and the European Enlightenment Stewart J. Brown 14 ‘The Lutheran AggressionControversy’: Caste and Class Conflict of Christians in 19th Century South India Robert Eric Frykenberg 15 Edinburgh 1910 Onward: Cheng Jingyi, Vedanayagam S. Azariah and the Ecumenical Movement in Asia Marina Xiaojing Wang 16 Revolutionary or Reforming? Christian Engagement in Politics during Military-Backed Governments Sebastian C. H. Kim 17 Urbanisation, Diaspora, and the Tenacity of Chinese Evangelicalism Alexander Chow Afterword: Ecclesiological Considerations for Ecumenism and Independency Alexander Chow Bibliography of Brian Stanley’s Writings Index
