DOCSLIB.ORG

World Christianities: Transcontinental Connections Author(S): Peter C

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
World Christianities: Transcontinental Connections Author(S): Peter C World Christianities: Transcontinental Connections Author(s): Peter C. Phan Source: Journal of World Christianity , Vol. 6, No. 1, The Journal of World Christianity (2016), pp. 205-216 Published by: Penn State University Press Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/jworlchri.6.1.0205 JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at https://about.jstor.org/terms Penn State University Press is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Journal of World Christianity This content downloaded from 86.59.13.237 on Tue, 06 Jul 2021 13:02:35 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms World Christianities: Transcontinental Connections PETER C. PHAN GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY, WASHINGTON, D.C. ABSTRACT: Reflecting on this special issue, this article relates the work of the Munich School to current scholarship in the study of world Christianity. Its approach reminds us to not only focus on recent developments and transformations such as the rise of Pen- tecostalism but also include the history of world Christianity from its early beginnings. Calling us to equally take into account the history of Christianity’s polycentricity, this approach encourages us to look for multidirectional transcontinental interactions and early instances of South–South links. Thus, following the Munich School we should not examine the history of world Christianity in separate geographic entities in isolation but continuously look for transregional and transcontinental interactions and forms of exchange. Taking this into account will contribute profoundly to the much-needed new maps of a future history of world Christianity. KEYWORDS: world Christianity, Klaus Koschorke, Munich School of World Christianity, study of world Christianity, tools and reference works It is a felicitous serendipity that I write these reflections on the fittingly named “Munich School of World Christianity” immediately after my return from Cambridge, England, where I attended a three-day conference (February 3–5, 2015) organized at the Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide by Dr. Emma Wild-Wood, in collaboration with the Divinity Faculty, University of Cambridge. The conference was titled “What Is the Study of Christianity Worldwide?” a topic of obvious relevance to the Munich School of World Christianity. There were three keynotes: The first, by David Maxwell, Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History and an Africanist at the University of Cambridge, traced the global expansion of Christianity. The second, by Joel Robbins, professor of The Journal of World Christianity, Vol. 6, No. 1, 2016 Copyright © 2016 The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA JoWC_6.1_11_Phan.indd 205 01/04/16 4:02 PM This content downloaded from 86.59.13.237 on Tue, 06 Jul 2021 13:02:35 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms anthropology, also at the University of Cambridge, dealt with the anthropo- logical aspects of world Christianity. The third, by yours truly, titled “Doing Theology in World Christianities: Old Task, New Ways,” discussed theology in and of world Christianity. In addition to the three keynotes, there were eleven presentations dealing with sundry aspects of world Christianity. Some examined the very concept of world Christianity (Joel Cabrita of the University of Cambridge, Charlie Farhadian of Westmont College, and Dorottya Nagy of the University of South Africa); others presented Christianity in different parts of the world, such as India (Chandra Mallampalli of Westmont College and Shinjini Das of the University of Cambridge), China (Chloe Starr of Yale University), Ethiopia (Tom Boylson of London School of Economics), Ghana (J. Kwabena Asamoah- Gyadu of Trinity Theological Seminary, Legon), the United States (Andrew Preston of the University of Cambridge), the Middle East (Naures Atto of the University of Cambridge), and Nigeria (Marloes Janson of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London).1 This brief summary of the conference serves as a convenient introduction to the Munich School of World Christianity. There is no need for me to de- scribe this school here. Two articles in this issue of the journal, co-authored by Adrian Hermann and Ciprian Burlacioiu, both students and collabora- tors of Professor Klaus Koschorke, provide a detailed account of the life and work of their mentor and an analysis of the methodological approach of the Munich School and its many conferences, international and regional, which have attracted the participation of a large body of like-minded scholars, some of whom are of great international reputation. Imagine my surprise that, when asked if they had heard of the work of Klaus Koschorke and his group on world Christianity, very few of the participants of the recent Cambridge conference replied affirmatively. In fact, when Dorottya Nagy mentioned Koschorke in her presentation, she was asked how to spell his name! This lack of familiarity with the Munich School in the English-speaking scholarly world may be due to linguistic barriers, but it is all the more reason for the Journal of World Christianity to devote this issue to introducing the Munich School to a wider readership and to initiate a conversation among scholars of world Christianity. Of course, there has been extensive collaboration among scholars of different disciplines in the Munich School. In this concluding article I would like to de- velop, mainly by way of information, this scholarly exchange further by relating the Munich School to other academic centers and scholarly research and pub- lications on world Christianity outside Germany, in particular in the United States. I will end by highlighting some areas where the Munich School can ex- pand its research agenda in collaboration with institutions engaged in similar 206 THE JOURNAL OF WORLD CHRISTIANITY JoWC_6.1_11_Phan.indd 206 01/04/16 4:02 PM This content downloaded from 86.59.13.237 on Tue, 06 Jul 2021 13:02:35 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms tasks. My narrative of historical scholarship on world Christianity beyond the Munich School favors no particular point of view and follows no chronological sequence. Nor does my presentation pretend to comprehensiveness. I simply draw attention to works that I happen to be familiar with, and my apologies to authors whose works I fail to mention. 1. Tools for the Study of World Christianities A monumental and indispensable tool for the study of world Christianity is the Atlas of Global Christianity 1910–2010, edited by Todd M. Johnson and Kenneth R. Ross, which was brought out in celebration of the hundredth an- niversary of the World Missionary Conference, Edinburgh 1910.2 A book of breathtaking beauty and publishing virtuosity, it is an absolute treasure trove of information on contemporary global Christianity and supersedes all pre- vious encyclopedias and fact books on world Christianity, bar none. Armed with a multitude of multicolor maps and statistical tables, it provides up-to- date information on world religions (part I); global Christianity (part II); Christianity by continent and region (part III); peoples, languages, and cities (part IV); and Christian mission (part V). Of great interest are its categories of “Independents” and “Marginal Christians” in addition to the mainline de- nominations. Lest we miss the forest for the trees, an unavoidable danger in works of this kind, all sections are preceded by rich and insightful historical overviews by experts in the field. While the value of the work as a fact book will of course diminish with time due to constant changes, an annual report on changes in world Christianity is published in the International Bulletin of Missionary Research.3 A third edition of another important handbook, the World Christian Encyclopedia,4 is currently being produced by the Center for the Study of Global Christianity at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and is slated for publication in 2020. On a smaller scale but no less useful is Patrick Johnstone’s The Future of the Global Church: History, Trends and Possibilities.5 “The fulfilment of a 30-year dream,” as the author, of World Evangelical Alliance International and a veteran missionary in Africa with the Dorothea Mission, puts it in the preface, and the culmination of his work on the six editions of Operation World, this volume is also a work of beauty and publishing virtuosity. If the Atlas of Global Christian- ity 1910–2010 is a must for libraries, this book is within the reach of individuals’ pockets. Ideally, of course, the two works should be used in tandem. Scholars of world Christianity—including those of the Munich School—owe an enormous debt of gratitude to these authors and publishers for these refer- ence works. Just a mere couple of decades ago, without enormous databases World Christianities 207 JoWC_6.1_11_Phan.indd 207 01/04/16 4:02 PM This content downloaded from 86.59.13.237 on Tue, 06 Jul 2021 13:02:35 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms and high-tech printing wizardry, and of course without the generous finan- cial support of many institutions, scholars could not have had at their finger- tips such a source of information on world Christianity, which they in no way would have been able to gather on their own. There remains of course the task to digest all this myriad information and present it in a way that is accessible to the wider public. This leads us to the next topic. 2. Overview Handbooks The Munich School was not the first project to study world Christianity, or more precisely, Christianities, in their “transcontinental links,” with “polycentricity” as the guiding concept.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Munich School” and Further Perspectives on the Interdisciplinary Study of the History of World Christianity
    Current Debates About the Approach of the “Munich School” and Further Perspectives on the Interdisciplinary Study of the History of World Christianity ADRIAN HERMANN UNIVERSITÄT HAMBURG CIPRIAN BURLacIOIU LUDWIG-MAXIMILIANS-UNIVERSITÄT MÜNCHEN ABSTRACT: The research projects and publications of Klaus Koschorke and the “Munich School of World Christianity” have sparked intense debate over the last two decades. The first section of this contribution discusses some of these reactions and critiques, as well as Koschorke’s responses. It addresses questions about the idea of “polycentricity,” alternative ways of conceptualizing a variety of Christian centers, the relationship of Koschorke’s approach to the concept of transcultura- tion, and the need for greater diversity and inclusiveness in scholarly perspectives. The second section outlines some important issues regarding challenges and further perspectives for a future history of world Christianity. It touches on the question of the geographic horizon(s) of this approach, debates about “transmission” and “ap- propriation,” and the role of the anthropology of Christianity in describing the fluid character of Christian movements. In addition, it addresses the problem of how to relate the history of world Christianity to a global history of religion, as well as the importance of considering issues of migration as central to our understanding of Christianity. KEYWORDS: history of world Christianity, challenges, global history of religion, anthropology of Christianity, Munich School of World
    [Show full text]
  • Book Reviews
    Book Reviews Translating the Message: The Missionary Impact on Culture. 2d ed., revised and expanded. By Lamin Sanneh. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 2008. Pp. xiii, 318. Paperback $30. Lamin Sanneh, pioneer of the new social life, creeds and doctrines, institu- the sole preserve or vehicle of sacred historiography of world Christianity, tionsandideals,languagesandliteratures, utterance.Rather,God’sSpiritcouldmove has prepared an improved and updated and qualities and forms of artistic expres- intoandindwellanylanguageandthereby versionofhis widely acclaimed classic, sion. Variations in idiom brought further transformtheheartsandmindswithinany whichoriginally appeared in 1989. Into localized forms of Gospel embodiment, as culture. Pentecost reversed Babel. Thus this magisterialwork he has inserted a Gospel truths were themselves translated from within each language and culture, remarkably astute and insightful new and reincarnated within new languages. new features could be grafted into new chapter on the “Authorized (‘King James’) Christianity never was, and certainly is and emerging forms of Christianity. Bible,” probing both its origin and its wide- not, more inherently European (Western) Apithy summary of Sanneh’s con- ranging impact upon world Christianity; than it is Asian (Eastern) or African clusions can be found in his most recent and he has placed expanded and updated (Southern). The origins of Christian faith, work, as explained in Sanneh’s Disciples chapter bibliographies at the end, with after all, lay neither in Europe nor in Asia of All Nations: Pillars of World Christianity revamped appendixes. Between these two or Africa, but in the Middle East. Thus, (2008): “Christianity’s engagement with publicationslietwentyyearsofcontinuously while Christianity was eventually heavily the languages and cultures of the world deepening reflection and fresh research.
    [Show full text]
  • Sebastian Chang-Hwan
    CURRICULUM VITAE General information Name: Dr. Sebastian Kim, PhD, FRAS Address: Associate Dean & Executive Director, Korean Studies Center Professor of Theology and Public Life Fuller Theological Seminary 135 North Oakland Avenue Pasadena, CA 91182, USA Email: [email protected] Education 1997-2001 University of Cambridge, UK, PhD in Theology (Faculty of Divinity; Fitzwilliam College) 1992-1993 Fuller Theological Seminary, USA, ThM 1988-1991 Presbyterian University and Theological Seminary, Seoul, Republic of Korea, MDiv 1985-1987 All Nations Christian College, UK, Dip. Miss. 1974-1980 Hanyang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea, BSc (Electronic Communication Engineering) Employment 2017 (July)- Professor in Theology and Public Life and Executive Director, Korean Studies Center, Fuller Theological Seminary, USA 2005-2017 Professor (Chair in Theology and Public Life), School of Humanities, Religion and Philosophy, York St John University, UK 2002-2005 Director, Christianity in Asia, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge, UK Coordinator, MPhil in World Christianity 2002-2003 By-Fellow, Robinson College, University of Cambridge, UK 2001-2002 Professor (teaching major), Presbyterian University and Theological Seminary, Seoul, Republic of Korea 2000-2001 Interim Director, Henry Martyn Centre, and Henry Martyn Lecturer in Mission Studies, Cambridge Theological Federation, Cambridge, UK 1993-1997 Visiting Lecturer, Union Biblical Seminary, Pune, India 1989-1992 Home Director, World Concern Korea, Seoul, S. Korea 1981-1982 Systems
    [Show full text]
  • Hindu-Christian, Indo-German Self-Disclosures
    Dokumente zur Außereuropäischen Christentumsgeschichte 3 Hindu-Christian, Indo-German Self-Disclosures 'Malabarian Correspondence' between German Pietist Missionaries and South Indian Hindus (1712 – 1714) Bearbeitet von Daniel Jeyaraj, Richard F. Young 1. Auflage 2013. Buch. XVI, 349 S. Hardcover ISBN 978 3 447 06844 4 Format (B x L): 17 x 24 cm Gewicht: 950 g Weitere Fachgebiete > Religion > Christentum, Christliche Theologie > Missionswissenschaft, Missionsgeschichte Zu Inhaltsverzeichnis schnell und portofrei erhältlich bei Die Online-Fachbuchhandlung beck-shop.de ist spezialisiert auf Fachbücher, insbesondere Recht, Steuern und Wirtschaft. Im Sortiment finden Sie alle Medien (Bücher, Zeitschriften, CDs, eBooks, etc.) aller Verlage. Ergänzt wird das Programm durch Services wie Neuerscheinungsdienst oder Zusammenstellungen von Büchern zu Sonderpreisen. Der Shop führt mehr als 8 Millionen Produkte. Dokumente zur Außereuropäischen Christentumsgeschichte (Asien, Afrika, Lateinamerika) Documents on the History of Christianity in Asia, Africa and Latin America Herausgegeben von / Edited by Klaus Koschorke in Zusammenarbeit mit / in cooperation with Daniel Jeyaraj (Liverpool), Lize Kriel (Pretoria), Frieder Ludwig (Göttingen/Hermannsburg), Johannes Meier (Mainz), Richard Fox Young (Princeton) 3 2013 Harrassowitz Verlag . Wiesbaden Hindu-Christian Epistolary Self-Disclosures ‘Malabarian Correspondence’ between German Pietist Missionaries and South Indian Hindus (1712–1714) Translated, Introduced and Annotated by Daniel Jeyaraj and Richard Fox Young 2013 Harrassowitz Verlag . Wiesbaden Cover Illustration: Map of peninsular India, i.e., Malabar as Ziegenbalg and Gründler understood it to be. The Danish Colony of Tranquebar is shown in relation to other European coastal enclaves (Dutch, French, Portuguese) as well as the British Fort St. George (Madras, nowadays: Cen nai). From the Preface of Jenkin Thomas Philipps, An Account of the Religion, Manners,¯ and Learning of the People of Malabar (London: printed for W.
    [Show full text]
  • AAR Virtual Annual Meeting Program (All Times Listed in EST (UTC-5)
    AAR Virtual Annual Meeting Program (All times listed in EST (UTC-5) Sunday, November 29 A29-101 Theological Education Committee Meeting Sunday, November 29, 10:00 AM-12:00 PM Laurel C. Schneider, Vanderbilt University, Presiding A29-100 International Connections Committee Meeting Sunday, November 29, 10:00 AM-1:00 PM Olga Kazmina, Moscow State University, Presiding A29-203 Regions Committee Meeting Sunday, November 29, 12:00 PM-1:30 PM Katherine Downey, American Academy of Religion, Presiding A29-200 Academic Labor and Contingent Faculty Committee Meeting: Sunday, November 29, 12:00 PM-3:00 PM Edwin David Aponte, Louisville Institute, and Kerry Danner, Georgetown University, Presiding A29-201 Academic Relations Committee Meeting Sunday, November 29, 12:00 PM-3:00 PM Susan E. Hill, University of Northern Iowa, Presiding A29-202 Public Understanding of Religion Committee Meeting Sunday, November 29, 12:00 PM-3:00 PM Evan Berry, Arizona State University, Presiding A29-204 Status of LGBTIQ Persons in the Profession Committee Meeting Sunday, November 29, 12:00 PM-3:00 PM Mary E. Hunt, Women's Alliance for Theology, Ethics, and Ritual, Presiding A29-207 Graduate Student Committee Meeting Sunday, November 29, 1:00 PM-3:00 PM As of September 21. All sessions subject to change. AAR Virtual Annual Meeting Program (All times listed in EST (UTC-5) Aarti Patel, Syracuse University, Presiding A29-208 Motherhood and Religion Workshop: A Comparative, Interdisciplinary, Matricentric Feminist Approach Sunday, November 29, 1:00 PM-4:00 PM Pascale Engelmajer, Carroll University, Presiding Florence Pasche Guignard, Other, Presiding A29-206 Public Scholarship and Practical Impacts Workshop: Media Training and Work Outside the Academy Sunday, November 29, 1:00 PM-5:00 PM Cristine Hutchison-Jones, Harvard University, Presiding Panelists: Brad Braxton, St.
    [Show full text]
  • Annual Meeting of the Yale-Edinburgh Group on World Christianity and the History of Mission
    #YaleEdin2021 Annual Meeting of the Yale-Edinburgh Group on World Christianity and the History of Mission Digital Conference 22nd – 24th June 2021 Hosted by Co-Sponsored by Centre for the Study of Wolrd Christianity Yale Divinity School University of Edinburgh Yale University http://www.cswc.div.ed.ac.uk https://divinity.yale.edu Welcome to #YaleEdin2021 We welcome you warmly to the Annual Meeting of the Yale-Edinburgh Group on World Christianity and the History of Mission. Since 1992, the Annual Meeting has been the flagship conference of the Group, bringing together scholars to exchange ideas on the academic study of local and transnational expressions of Christianity from all over the world. Since the maiden conference in 1992 entitled “From Christendom to World Christianity,” the Group has boldly and impactfully engaged the difficult question of culture and its dynamic relationship with the Christian belief and lived experiences. We have addressed both the content and modes of cultural expressions and interpretations of the Christian faith with a view to empowering academic and missiological approaches that promote conceptual clarity in the complex field of World Christianity as well as innovative approaches to mission in today’s world. This year’s conference on “Print, Oral, and Digital Cultures in World Christianity and the Hisotry of Mission” continues in exactly this vein. It uses the language of culture to speak about three different mediums in which the Christian message is communicated and the Christian life is practiced. We look forward to the presentations exploring how these three mediums are shaped and are themselves transformed through Christian application, appropriation, and contemplation, be it through liturgy and worship, spritiaual formation and pastoral care, evangelism and mission, or academic research and pedagogy.
    [Show full text]
  • Copyright 2017 Makoto Kondo
    THE NEW POSSIBILITY OF MISSION IN JAPAN A dissertation by Makoto Kondo presented to The Faculty of the Pacific School of Religion in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Ministry Berkeley, California April 2017 Copyright 2017 Makoto Kondo Committee Members: Randi Walker, DMin, PhD, Coordinator Hung Pham, S.J., S.T.D., Member Robert M. Fukada, DMin, Member Abstract THE NEW POSSIBILITY OF MISSION IN JAPAN by Makoto Kondo It is a fact that the numbers of Christians still remain to be less than only 1% of the whole population of Japan even today. Are there any possibilities for Christian mission in Japan today and in the future, even when people have been losing interest in any religion? In Japan, for more than 400 years from Francisco Xavier up to now, numberless missionaries and pastors have been making every effort to propagate the gospel messages, taking it as an absolute ‘must’ for their missionary activities. Most of them tried to carry out their mission with their own traditional method. As a result, there occurred almost necessarily some sorts of cultural and religious frictions among others throughout history. It is very interesting to know that Christianity in Japan had never been nationalized in Copyright 2017 Makoto Kondo history, though having been very often tempted to become a national religion. In my research project, I tried to trace out the acceptance history of Christianity in Japan, while keeping it in my mind to investigate the most important and basic themes, such as ‘What is Christian mission?’ or ‘How could it be possible for us missionaries and pastors in Japan to serve the churches and anywhere else as true bearers of Christian mission in the present context?’ While pursuing my research project, it became clear at least that the i statistic ratio of the Christian population in Japan does not necessarily lead to any conclusion as to whether Christian mission in Japan resulted in success or failure.
    [Show full text]
  • Religious Studies and Transcultural Studies
    180 Religious Studies and Transcultural Studies Religious Studies and Transcultural Studies: Revealing a Cosmos Not Known Before? Esther Berg, Institut für Weltkirche und Mission, Frankfurt Katja Rakow, Universiteit Utrecht Introduction The notion of the “transcultural,” together with all its possible derivatives, has without doubt become one of the buzzwords of the humanities and social sciences in recent years. In this paper, we set out to explore the relationship between an emerging transcultural paradigm and the academic study of religion by discussing what a transcultural perspective, as we understand it, can bring to the table for those of us studying religions.1 In doing so, we seek to promote awareness of and critical engagement with such a perspective among our colleagues within and beyond the study of religion, addressing both proponents of the discussion as well as outsiders. In our own research, the notion of the transcultural and its theoretical implications have enabled us to articulate aspects of our research material that we had not seen or had no satisfactory concepts to describe. In this paper, we thus want to share the fruitfulness of a transcultural research perspective. Yet, as we have discovered and appropriated the notion of the transcultural for ourselves and our own research, it has also opened our eyes to what Daniel G. König and Katja Rakow have called the “transcultural component” of our own academic discipline.2 Not only might the academic study of religion itself be described as the product of various “trans-cultural” encounters, but the methodological and theoretical concerns informing our understanding of a transcultural research perspective can also be found in one form or another in already well- established discussions and approaches within and beyond our own discipline.
    [Show full text]
  • Nationalism and Internationalism in the Young Ecumenical Movement, 1895–1920S
    Fig.: St. Colm’s College in 1910. Rear: Harada Tasuku, V.S. Azariah, et al. Front: Ruth Rouse, John Mott, Georgina Gollock, et al. © St. Colm’s Archives Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Theologische Fakultät 8–10 October Central European Time International Video Conference Nationalism and Internationalism in the Young Ecumenical Movement, 1895–1920s Backround picture: Letter from Ruth Rouse to Rev. T. Tatlow, 05.08.1911, University of Birmingham, Cadbury Research Library, SCM, W3 Correspondence 1910–1912. How did Christian groups negotiate the tensions between their aspirations for global unity and their national identities? At the turn of the twentieth century, increasing global connections made unity movements possible among Christians around the world. The embrace of internationalism among Christians in Europe, Asia, and North America occurred simultaneously with the growth of patriotism directed toward emerging modern nation-states in a matrix of western colonialism. As Christianity expanded beyond its predominantly European heartland, Christian leaders found themselves navigating the tensions between their own ethnic and national identities, and an idealistic internationalist vision they often connected to the “kingdom of God.” Inclusive of student Christian movements, regional church councils, and efforts to rebuild Europe after the First World War, what we are calling the “young ecumenical movement” promoted worldwide Christian fellowship in tension with the emerging fascist, communist, and capitalist empires of the era. The conference explores the entanglements between nationalism and internationalism in Christian unity movements in order to understand their mechanisms of mutual demarcation and mutual interdependence, and their idealistic globalist stance during an age of heightened nationalism. It thus illuminates an epoch that has been under-researched so far.
    [Show full text]
  • The Doctrine of the Eternal Generation of the Son in The
    THE DOCTRINE OF THE ETERNAL GENERATION OF THE SON IN THE TRINITARIAN THEOLOGY OF BASIL OF CAESAREA By Zachary Fischer Submitted in accordance with the requirements for the degree of Master of Theology in the subject Systematic Theology at the University of South Africa Promoter: Prof Dr L. J. MODISE Co-Promoter Dr R EBELING UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AFRICA February 2015 1 Declaration Unisa student no 55767362 I, Zachary Allen Fischer, the undersigned declare that this Dissertation entitled THE DOCTRINE OF THE ETERNAL GENERATION OF THE SON IN THE TRINITARIAN THEOLOGY OF BASIL OF CAESAREA is my own work and that all the sources that I have used or quoted have been indicated and acknowledged by means of complete references. It has never been submitted to any other university for academic credit. Signature ……………………. Date ……………………….. Zachary Allen Fischer February 23, 2015 2 Abstract This paper explores the importance of the doctrine of the eternal generation of the Son in Basil of Caesarea's Trinitarian writings. In order to judge the importance of the doctrine for Basil, its impact on all of his exegetical and dogmatic writings on the Trinity were surveyed and evaluated. In his writings, Basil repeatedly addresses his belief that the Father and the Son is the one, eternal God. He considered this possible due to the Son's eternal generation from the substance of the Father. Basil considered the eternal generation of the Son to be both a scripturally warranted and philosophically coherent doctrine that explains how the Father and Son are indelibly same in substance and truly distinct persons.
    [Show full text]
  • Curriculum Vitae [email protected]
    1 BOYUN LIU Curriculum Vitae [email protected] CURRENT POSITION___________________________________________________________ Visiting Scholar in Theological Studies Institute for Studies of Religion Baylor University Assistant Professor of Interpreting School of Translation and Interpreting Beijing Language and Culture University EDUCATION____________________________________________________________________ Doctor of Literature English Department, Peking University July 2, 2012 Dissertation: A Study on the Interactions of Evolution and Christianity in Late Victorian Period Advisor: Fengfeng Gao Joint Program PhD Student Yale Divinity School 2009- 2010 Sponsor: Adela Yarbro Collins AREAS OF EXPERTISE & RESEARCH INTERESTS____________________________ Theology: Early Church Councils and Creeds, Apocalyptic Literature, Origen of Alexandria, Mar Ephrem, Church of the East in China, Evolution and Christianity Literature: Modern American Fiction, Chinese American Literature Interpreting: Simultaneous and Consecutive TEACHING EXPERIENCE______________________________________________________ Assistant Professor: Beijing Language and Culture University 2012-2019 Undergraduate Courses: Comprehensive English English as a Second Foreign Language 2 Introduction to Greek Mythology Comparative Study of Chinese and Western Culture (Team Teaching) English Listening English Listening and Speaking English Reading English Reading and Writing Graduate Courses: Advanced Chinese Listening and Speaking Consecutive Interpreting Workshop on Interpreting Skills
    [Show full text]
  • Changing Relations Between Churches in Europe and Africa
    Studien zur Aussereuropäischen Christentumsgeschichte (Asien, Afrika, Lateinamerika) /Studies in the History of Christianity in the Non-Western World (Asia, Africa, Latin America) 11 Changing Relations between Churches in Europe and Africa The Internationalization of Christianity and Politics in the 20th Century Bearbeitet von Jens H Schjorring, Katharina Kunter 1. Auflage 2008. Taschenbuch. VI, 254 S. Paperback ISBN 978 3 447 05451 5 Format (B x L): 17 x 24 cm Weitere Fachgebiete > Religion > Christliche Kirchen & Glaubensgemeinschaften > Östliche & Orientalische Orthodoxe Kirchen Zu Inhaltsverzeichnis schnell und portofrei erhältlich bei Die Online-Fachbuchhandlung beck-shop.de ist spezialisiert auf Fachbücher, insbesondere Recht, Steuern und Wirtschaft. Im Sortiment finden Sie alle Medien (Bücher, Zeitschriften, CDs, eBooks, etc.) aller Verlage. Ergänzt wird das Programm durch Services wie Neuerscheinungsdienst oder Zusammenstellungen von Büchern zu Sonderpreisen. Der Shop führt mehr als 8 Millionen Produkte. Changing Relations between Churches in Europe and Africa The Internationalization of Christianity and Politics in the 20th Century Edited by Katharina Kunter and Jens Holger Schjørring 2008 Harrassowitz Verlag . Wiesbaden ISSN 1611-0080 ISBN 978-3-447-05451-5 Contents Foreword............................................................................................................... 1 Introduction ......................................................................................................... 3 CHURCHES, MISSION AND
    [Show full text]