Facing West: American Evangelicals in an Age of World Christianity
Autor David R. Swartzen Limba Engleză Hardback – 22 iun 2020
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780190250805
ISBN-10: 0190250801
Pagini: 332
Ilustrații: 25 black and white illustrations
Dimensiuni: 163 x 239 x 31 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 0190250801
Pagini: 332
Ilustrații: 25 black and white illustrations
Dimensiuni: 163 x 239 x 31 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Recenzii
In Facing West: Evangelicals in an Age of World Christianity, David Swartz has written a well-researched tour de force that is a must read for scholars and students of American evangelicalism and world Christianity.
This is a valuable, thoroughly researched and engagingly written study that will inform all future work in the field.
This book is an excellent resource as a history of modern missions and a study of applied missiology. It is written in a way that would be accessible to a lay reader while also an appropriate textbook for a graduate course. Although this book may initially feel like an insult to an America-centered approach to Christianity and world missions, it is much more a celebration of a truly vibrant global church that is now returning life and fruit to those whose missionaries first brought them the Christian Gospel.
Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers.
Beautifully researched and creatively conceived, Facing West is a remarkable account of American evangelicalism in its transnational context, one that turns our focus toward the contributions of believers in the global South. This expansive history moves from the Cold War to the war against human trafficking, from Korea to Latin America to East Africa, and Swartz is the intelligent, rigorous, and yet generous guide we need to understand the global politics of a border-crossing community. A truly impressive book.
If U.S. evangelicalism is to have any future beyond its current state of incessant and unproductive navel gazing, it must find rooting in and expression through World Christianity. Swartz offers a necessary and illuminating global lens for the emerging evangelical narrative, one that has moved far beyond its assumed Western moorings. Covering a breadth of important historical narratives, this text offers a scholarly glimpse into the possibilities of world evangelicalism, which could even include U.S. evangelicalism.
Facing West is a fascinating and important book that can help reorient perspectives of American evangelicals. Swartz provides a balanced and thoughtful guide to understanding what American evangelicals have learned, and might learn, from the vast majority of world Christians who are not following American scripts.
This is a valuable, thoroughly researched and engagingly written study that will inform all future work in the field.
This book is an excellent resource as a history of modern missions and a study of applied missiology. It is written in a way that would be accessible to a lay reader while also an appropriate textbook for a graduate course. Although this book may initially feel like an insult to an America-centered approach to Christianity and world missions, it is much more a celebration of a truly vibrant global church that is now returning life and fruit to those whose missionaries first brought them the Christian Gospel.
Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers.
Beautifully researched and creatively conceived, Facing West is a remarkable account of American evangelicalism in its transnational context, one that turns our focus toward the contributions of believers in the global South. This expansive history moves from the Cold War to the war against human trafficking, from Korea to Latin America to East Africa, and Swartz is the intelligent, rigorous, and yet generous guide we need to understand the global politics of a border-crossing community. A truly impressive book.
If U.S. evangelicalism is to have any future beyond its current state of incessant and unproductive navel gazing, it must find rooting in and expression through World Christianity. Swartz offers a necessary and illuminating global lens for the emerging evangelical narrative, one that has moved far beyond its assumed Western moorings. Covering a breadth of important historical narratives, this text offers a scholarly glimpse into the possibilities of world evangelicalism, which could even include U.S. evangelicalism.
Facing West is a fascinating and important book that can help reorient perspectives of American evangelicals. Swartz provides a balanced and thoughtful guide to understanding what American evangelicals have learned, and might learn, from the vast majority of world Christians who are not following American scripts.
Notă biografică
David R. Swartz is an associate professor of history at Asbury University. He is the author of Moral Minority: The Evangelical Left in an Age of Conservatism (2012).