Ecumenism and Independency in World Christianity

Alexander Chow is Senior Lecturer in Theology and World Christianity in the School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh, and is co-director of the Centre for the Study of World Christianity. He is co-editor of the journal Studies in World Christianity (Edinburgh University Press) and is editor of the Chinese Christianities Series (University of Notre Dame Press). He is author of two books, most recently Chinese Public Theology: Generational Shifts and Confucian Imagination in Chinese Christianity (Oxford 2018).Emma Wild-Wood is Senior lecturer in African Christianity and African Indigenous Religions and co-director of the Centre for the Study of World Christianity at the University of Edinburgh. Previously she taught in DR Congo, Uganda and Cambridge, UK. She is co-editor of the journal Studies in World Christianity and co-editor of the book series Religion in Transforming Africa published by James Currey. Her latest book is The Mission of Apolo Kivebulaya: Religious Change in the African Great Lakes, c. 1870-1835 (James Currey 2020).

• & Notes on Contributors Introduction: Ecumenism and Independency in World ChristianityEmma Wild-Wood1 Brian Stanley: Scholar of World Christian HistoryDavid BebbingtonPart 1: Studying World Christianity2 1899–1900: Ecumenism and Independency in the Emerging World History of ChristianityMark Noll3 Independency in Ecumenical ChristianityDavid M. Thompson4 Mission: Integrated or Autonomous? Implications for the Study of World ChristianityKirsteen Kim5 Evangelical Revivals in Twentieth Century Christianity: Reflections on the East African Revival in the Light of Revivals in East AsiaKevin Ward6 Creation Care in Latin America: Lessons from Catholics and EvangélicosAllen YehPart 2: Christians Working Together7 The Missionary Concerns of Brunswick Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Leeds, in the Victorian EraDavid Bebbington8 Baptist Students in Cambridge: Denominational and Ecumenical Identities, from the 1920s to the 1940sIan Randall9 ‘You are old, Father William’: Generational Abrasiveness in the Missionary MovementAndrew F. Walls10 Field Workers and Mission Leaders in Tension: Practical Ecumenism in the Shanxi MissionAndrew T. Kaiser11 The Advance of Pentecostalism in China, 1907–1937Rolf Gerhard Tiedemann12 Sacred Music and Christian Transnationalism in 1920s-1930s China and JapanDana L. RobertPart 3: Pluriform Christianity13 China, Social Ethics and the European EnlightenmentStewart J. Brown14 ‘The Lutheran AggressionControversy’: Caste and Class Conflict of Christians in 19th Century South IndiaRobert Eric Frykenberg15 Edinburgh 1910 Onward: Cheng Jingyi, Vedanayagam S. Azariah and the Ecumenical Movement in AsiaMarina Xiaojing Wang16 Revolutionary or Reforming? Christian Engagement in Politics during Military-Backed GovernmentsSebastian C. H. Kim17 Urbanisation, Diaspora, and the Tenacity of Chinese EvangelicalismAlexander ChowAfterword: Ecclesiological Considerations for Ecumenism and IndependencyAlexander ChowBibliography of Brian Stanley’s WritingsIndex