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Christianity Made in India : From Apostle Thomas to Mother Teresa /

Christianity Made in India: From Apostle Thomas to Mother Teresa discusses the indigenization of Christianity in the Indian context. It is set in the larger context of the exceptional growth of the church in the non-Western world during the twentieth century, which has been characterized by a divers...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Hedlund, Roger E. (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Minneapolis [Minnesota] : Fortress Press, [2017]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table des matières:
  • 1. Introduction : "beginning from Jerusalem"
  • 2. Foundations : Thomas and the first Christians
  • 3. A thousand years of silence? : The forgotten golden age of the church
  • 4. Ziegenbalg : the beginnings of Protestant Christianity in India
  • 5. Carey and the evangelical experiment at Serampore
  • 6. Ramabai Dongre Medhavi : change agent in modern Indian history
  • 7. Evangelical Christians and social transformation
  • 8. Indigenous churches of South Asia and beyond
  • 9. Why study new movements? : the importance of India's new Christian movements
  • 10. Religious plurality and Christian concerns : insights from India
  • 11. Poverty, evangelisation, and Christian identity
  • 12. Creative ministries of new Christian movements
  • 13. Living water and the Holy Spirit
  • 14. Fourth branch Christianity and the historiography of new Christian movements
  • 15. Christian identity in a pluralistic world
  • 16. Hindus and Christians together for two thousand years
  • 17. Conclusion : "to the ends of the Earth."