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The Missionary Movement in Christian History: Studies in the Transmission of Faith Paperback – September 20, 1996

by Andrew F. Walls (Author)
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  • Paperback: 266 pages
  • Publisher: Orbis Books; 1st edition (September 20, 1996)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1570750599
  • ISBN-13: 978-1570750595
  • Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.7 x 8.9 inches
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  • Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
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3.0 out of 5 stars3 1/2 Stars--Some Helpful Themes: Poor Format
By Craig Stephans VINE VOICE on April 3, 2008
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Andrew Walls' book The Missionary Movement in Christian History presents a collection of independently written articles that Walls categorizes under three headings: "The Transmission of the Christian Faith," "Africa's Place in Christian History," and "The Missionary Movement." The varied articles are loosely connected by common themes focusing on the missionary processes related to Christian conversion through history and throughout the world. Walls repeatedly demonstrates a keen understanding of the expansion of Christianity through divine salvation that he describes in terms of "translation." For Walls, Christ actually grows through the work of mission, as the Divine is translated into specific humanity. Unfortunately, the format creates a lack of fluidity, a consistent redundancy and an unnecessary wordiness.

In the first section of his book, the articles focus on the way Christianity is shared and experienced among cultures and at different times in history. Walls explains the paradox of Christianity's universal message of salvation in Jesus Christ alone that is experienced locally within one's culture, relations and history.

According to Walls, the way the church grasps this concept of a localized Christianity determines its effectiveness in mission and missionary endeavors. This is especially significant as the Christian center shifts, takes root and expands outside the West according to Walls.

Walls asserts that the task of discipling the nations "is about the translation of Scripture into thought and action, as the word about Christ is brought to bear on the points of reference within each culture, the things by which people know themselves and recognize where they belong." (86)

This presents a paradox to Walls.Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 starsExit West, Enter Africa
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Entitled "The Transmission of Christian Faith," his first section deals with a historical overview of missions. In six essays he posits that missiological expansion was really only an episode in Christian history, a blip on the screen. But instead of downplaying its importance, Walls conversely highlights both the diversity and universality of Christianity as expressed in this movement. In one of the essays, the process is displayed in six phases moving from the apostle Paul to Europe and then on to Africa. He deals largely with the interaction between the spread of the gospel and how it transforms culture, so he hints at Africa's importance in this section.
In the second section he makes a transition to a clear emphasis on Africa. He interacts with the primal religions of Africa as well as with African Christianity in this section. He identifies exponential growth patterns and charismatic cultural tendencies that now characterize the African Christian Church. However, most interesting is his insistence in making a distinction between the history of the African Church and the history of Christian missions there. Whereas missions in Africa was historically led by Europeans, Walls argues that the evangelical revival in the African church was truly indigenous.
Part three sets the stage for missiology. Walls believes there is a new era in Christian theology that is largely due to the demographic shift in global Christianity. He sees theology being shaped more by southern Christians than western ones. Issues like non-western art, scholarship, medicine and organizational methodology highlight the generational and gradual shift in values in southern countries. Walls believes that "Christians outside Africa will have to make some responses to the questions raised in the African arena" (146).
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4.0 out of 5 starsgood on many counts
By A Customer on October 12, 2003
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Ah, leave it to Orbis. Walls's book _TMMCH_ is superb because in it he balances a broad, theoretical view of missions with more intensive discussions of specific missions. He has, so to speak, both vision and insight. His prose is for most part light and fluid. His discussion of medical missions and, especially, non-Western art was really superb.
As for the book's flaws: 1) I was astounded to see that it has no bibliography and bummed that it has a skimpy index. 2) The intensive studies are at times repetitive and arcane. 3) Walls borders pretty close to latitudinarianism by all but saying there are no essential facets, even dogmas, of the Christian faith. He lays so much weight on the "local expressions" of the Faith that he is rather nonchalant about what must stay and what can be lost. Yes, he even uses the word "Christianities" (pg. 239).
Ironically, since Walls's Evangelical perspective often smacks of anti-Catholic, anti-centralized, anti-dogmatic ecclesiology, his book was a superb defense of the reality (and divine wisdom) of doctrinal development, and, in turn, much of what the Roman Catholic Church has done for centuries. I'm a Protestant seriously considering reconciliation with the RCC, so Walls' book was an unexpected boost in that direction. Walls virtually demands that different ages have different doctrinal and devotional foci. That's why, e.g., George Salmon's barbed observation that it is strange to see popes wax about Mary in most of their writings, while her name appears in so little of the NT, betrays the notoriously a-historical Protestant view of doctrine.Read more ›
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