While other major Asian religions such as Buddhism, Hinduism and Islam have received great deal of international scholarly attention, Christianity is relatively neglected as a subject of study. (brill.com)
The course explores the main religious traditions in the region such as Buddhism, Islam, Christianity, and Shinto, as well as folk religious traditions and new religions. (lu.se)
Lecture2
Dr. Johnson's lecture, "Recovering a Global History of Christianity" reframed the story of Christian history in terms of its ancient global history and by reconceptualizing its current global reality. (wheaton.edu)
Dr. Rittgers' lecture marked the inaugural lecture under the new honorary title, "The Mark A. Noll Annual Lecture in the History of Christianity," and also highlighted the 500th anniversary of the Reformation. (wheaton.edu)
Christians3
Its adherents, known as Christians , are estimated to make up a majority of the population in 157 countries and territories , and believe that Jesus is the Son of God , whose coming as the Messiah was prophesied in the Hebrew Bible (called the Old Testament in Christianity) and chronicled in the New Testament . (wikipedia.org)
Today there is no indigenous Christianity in the region, no communities of Christians whose history can be traced to antiquity. (citizenwarrior.com)
Being the global region with the highest percentage of Christians, Latin America serves as a highly relevant case for the populist potential of contemporary Christianities. (lu.se)
Islam6
Wholly independent, the nonpartisan Institute works across many faith traditions including Christianity, Judaism and Islam. (acton.org)
Christianity seems like a rain shower that soaks the earth and then moves on, whereas Islam appears more like a great lake that constantly overflows its banks to inundate new territory. (citizenwarrior.com)
It was written by Robert Louis Wilken, professor of the History of Christianity at the University of Virginia. (citizenwarrior.com)
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The term was first used in 2017 by sociologists Brad Christerson and Richard Flory in their book The Rise of Network Christianity: How Independent Leaders are Changing the Religious Landscape to describe the rapid growth of a form of Protestant Christianity from 1970 to 2010, and has since been adopted by other commentators. (wikipedia.org)
World's3
Christianity is growing in Africa and Asia , the world's most populous continents. (wikipedia.org)
Sociologist Rodney Stark, who describes himself as 'personally incapable of religious faith', wrote that 'of all the world's religions, including the three great monotheisms, only in Christianity did the idea develop that slavery was sinful and must be abolished' (p.25). (evangelical-times.org)
Christianity is the world's largest religion and has meant more for the growth and development of Western culture than any other movement or system of thought. (lu.se)
Rise1
In the diverse and plural contexts of Asian societies and cultures, Christianity has embedded itself in complex ways giving rise to historically particular Christian communities with their own locally and regionally prolific variants of myth, tradition and culture as well as specific engagements with altering economic and political realities. (brill.com)
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In the West , Christianity remains the dominant religion even with a decline in adherence , with about 70% of that population identifying as Christian. (wikipedia.org)
The International Journal of Asian Christianity (IJAC) is a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the scholarly examination of Christianity in Asia and of Asian Christian diaspora in the West and elsewhere. (brill.com)
Mahoney is also determined to show that the religion of humanity, which seeks to replace Christianity, would not have enjoyed its considerable success were it not for the fact that its defenders have employed Christian language to fulfill anti-Christian aims. (kirkcenter.org)
Christianity and Freedom , a symposium by a team of international scholars, concluded that 'free institutions hardly ever developed in places that were not influenced by Jewish and Christian ideas' (p.23). (evangelical-times.org)
The direct assaults upon orthodox Christianity by would-be heresiarchs receive all the attention, but a greater threat to the faith has gone more or less unnoticed. (touchstonemag.com)
Charismatic3
Independent Network Charismatic (INC) Christianity is a movement within evangelical charismatic Christianity which is focused on the authority of charismatic apostles and seeks the wholesale transformation of society. (wikipedia.org)
The movement is distinguished from other forms of Christianity by its use of network governance, based on networks of charismatic apostles, rather than more traditional church structures and hierarchies. (wikipedia.org)
Existing within charismatic Christianity, INC leaders and organisations believe in the continued operation of the supernatural spiritual gifts of the Holy Spirit, such as supernatural healing, miracles, prophecy and speaking in tongues. (wikipedia.org)
Faith4
Coates's brief comments on Christianity in his highly acclaimed Between the World and Me make clear that religious faith is alien to his own experience. (christianbook.com)
summarizes basic truths showing that Christianity is a logical, rational faith and not at all a blind faith. (creation.com)
The positivistic theorist Auguste Comte established this fateful precedent by appealing to "charity," "love," "spirituality," and "faith" to advance a new and intolerant secular religion that seeks to replace Christianity. (kirkcenter.org)
This study does not seek to privilege or promote Christianity as a faith, but rather to intellectually and objectively consider its changing association with children's literature and education over that time. (cam.ac.uk)
Investigates1
it investigates various forms of Christianity and different shapes of nationalism - through political, economic, sociological, historical, theological and philosophical analyses. (lu.se)
Church3
Independent Network Christianity is not a denomination but rather a network of independent church and parachurch leaders. (wikipedia.org)
The six major branches of Christianity are Roman Catholicism (1.3 billion people), Protestantism (800 million), Eastern Orthodoxy (220 million), Oriental Orthodoxy (60 million), Restorationism (35 million), and the Church of the East (600 thousand). (wikipedia.org)
Mahoney makes no secret of his belief that the collective intellect of the church has been on a steep decline since the abdication of Pope Benedict XVI, who astutely warned against the dangers of reducing Christianity to a "humanitarian moral message" in his 2007 Regensburg Address. (kirkcenter.org)
Scholars3
UPDATED) Dozens of scholars praise the Scottish historian of missions for his groundbreaking research re-centering Christianity from West to South and for his personal support. (christianitytoday.com)
The journal is open to scholars of all religious persuasions or none undertaking serious work on the historical, anthropological, educational, theological, cultural social and political aspects of Asian Christianity and its role in shaping both the past and present Asian societies. (brill.com)
This research platform gathers scholars from a number of disciplines to interrogate the complex ideological, historical, and practical interactions between Christianity and nationalism. (lu.se)
Missions2
While the financial contributions of indigenous Cameroonians to the mission funds were low (yet non-negligible) relative to donations from Europe and America during German colonial rule, Africans' willingness to accept Christianity and their demand for missionary services ultimately determined the success of missions in Cameroon. (lu.se)
Africans' willingness to accept Christianity and their demand for missionary services ultimately determined the success of missions in Cameroon. (lu.se)
He has published on biblical reception, political theology and Latin American Christianity. (lu.se)
Religion4
And do they owe anything to Christianity or are they, as one scholar put it, actually a religion for a godless ages? (theosthinktank.co.uk)
To mark the anniversary we are republishing Nick Spencer's long-read on 'The Religion of Christianity and the Religion of Human Rights' which first appeared in his book The Evolution of the West . (theosthinktank.co.uk)
A couple, visiting Sitapur along with tourists from Brazil, has been booked under the UP Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Act for allegedly forcing people to convert to Christianity. (tehelka.com)
Christianity ( / ˌ k r ɪ s t ɪ ˈ æ n ɪ t i / ) is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth. (wikipedia.org)
Missionary1
Before he died at age 37, missionary William Milne had produced a publication promoting Christianity, science, and general knowledge. (christianitytoday.com)
Enslaved Leadership in Early Christianity is the fruit of doctoral research undertaken by Katherine A. Shaner at Harvard Divinity School. (brynmawr.edu)
Read2
I haven't read an argument like mine for Christianity, though given everything written about Christianity, I probably haven't tried hard enough. (blogspot.com)
The ultimate focus is on the enslaved in the early Christ-groups, while approaching their study from the broader context of the ritual activity of the enslaved in the period and geography in which early Christianity formed-of which Xanthos is a conspicuous (albeit not cited) example. (brynmawr.edu)
His talk for today stems from his current book project, a larger study of the influence of Christianity on children's literature. (cam.ac.uk)
Via Music's first album, Ellipsis, is set to release Friday, February 9th, 2018 as a leading statement to the message they have to deliver. (blogtalkradio.com)