TY - BOOK AU - Burrows,William R. AU - Gornik,Mark R. AU - McLean,Janice A. TI - Understanding world Christianity: the vision and work of Andrew F. Walls SN - 9781570759499 (pbk.) AV - BR 1725.W293 U53 2011 PY - 2011/// CY - Maryknoll, N.Y. PB - Orbis Books KW - Walls, Andrew F. KW - Christian biography N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction; William R. Burrows, Mark R. Gornik, and Janice A. McLean --; Part I. A man with a large map --; ch. 1. Andrew F. Walls as mentor; Kwame Bediako --; ch. 2. Andrew F. Walls, Methodist local preacher and hymn writer; I. Howard Marshall --; ch. 3. Andrew F. Walls as teacher in Africa; Allison Howell and Maureen Iheanacho --; Part II. Breaking boundaries, building new ways of scholarship --; ch. 4. Challenging the academy, breaking barriers; Wilbert R. Shenk --; ch. 5. Founding the Centre for the Study of Christianity in the Non-Western World; Brian Stanley --; ch. 6. Changing the course of mission and world Christian studies; Jonathan J. Bonk --; ch. 7. Theological education as embodiment of Jesus; Moonjang Lee --; Part III. Themes in the transmission of Christian faith --; ch. 8. Post-Western wine, post-Christian wineskins? : the Bible and the third wave awakening; Lamin Sanneh --; ch. 9. Conversion: individual and cultural; William R. Burrows --; ch. 10. Ecclesiology, Andrew F. Walls, and the fortunate subversion of the church; Stephen B. Bevans --Part IV. Transformations in understanding Christian history --; ch. 11. Historiographic foundations from Latourette and Van Dusen to Andrew F. Walls; Dana L. Robert --; ch. 12. Andrew F. Walls for Americans; Mark Noll --; ch. 13. Andrew F. Walls and documenting world Christianity in the twenty-first century; Michael Poon --; Part V. Africa's place in Christian history --; ch. 14. Turning that which is already there toward Christ : the contribution of Andrew F. Walls to understanding Africa Christianity; J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu --; ch. 15. Gospel and culture : Andrew F. Walls in Africa, Africa in Andrew F. Walls; Gillian Bediako --; ch. 16. Migration and the globalization of Christianity; Jehu J. Hanciles --; Conclusion : the emergence of world Christianity and the remaking of theology; Kwame Bediako ER -