The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, Volume V: The Twentieth Century: Themes and Variations in a Global Context

564 Pages·2018·3.215 MB·English

by  Mark P Hutchinson

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THE OXFORD HISTORY OF PROTESTANT
DISSENTING TRADITIONS,
VOLUME V
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THE OXFORD HISTORY OF
PROTESTANT DISSENTING TRADITIONS
GeneralEditors:
TimothyLarsenandMarkA.Noll
TheOxfordHistoryofProtestantDissentingTraditions,VolumeI
ThePost-ReformationEra,c.1559–c.1689
EditedbyJohnCoffey
TheOxfordHistoryofProtestantDissentingTraditions,VolumeII
TheLongEighteenthCentury,c.1689–c.1828
EditedbyAndrewC.Thompson
TheOxfordHistoryofProtestantDissentingTraditions,VolumeIII
TheNineteenthCentury
EditedbyTimothyLarsenandMichaelLedger-Lomas
TheOxfordHistoryofProtestantDissentingTraditions,VolumeIV
TheTwentiethCentury:TraditionsinaGlobalContext
EditedbyJehuJ.Hanciles
TheOxfordHistoryofProtestantDissentingTraditions,VolumeV
TheTwentiethCentury:ThemesandVariationsinaGlobalContext
EditedbyMarkP.Hutchinson
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The Oxford History of
Protestant Dissenting Traditions
Volume V
The Twentieth Century: Themes and
Variations in a Global Context
Edited by
MARK P. HUTCHINSON
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Acknowledgements
Attempting to address global themes on any subject takes one out of one’s
frame, and ‘stretches’ the scholar’s imagination and skill set in often painful
ways.Despitearecent(re)turnto‘world’andtransnationalhistory,historians
arelargelycarefulcreatureswholiketostayclosetotheirsourcesandcontexts.
The sort of ‘meaning projection’ required of the authors (and the editor) of
this volume in almost every case required a high level of vulnerability, a
willingness to be ‘wrong’ on this or that detail so that something larger
might be achieved. I thank each of the authors for their willingness to throw
themselves into such a difficult task, particularly Candy Gunther Brown
(Indiana) for her willingness to see material moved so that the connecting
tissue of thevolumecould be constructed and repetitionminimized.To Tim
Larsen and Mark Noll, we corporately thank you for entrusting us with this
impossible remit: you won’t be surprised, however, if a later approach to do
likewisereceivesthereply‘notknownatthisaddress’!Onamoreseriousnote,
my personal thanks go to Tim Larsen (Wheaton), Mark Noll (Notre Dame),
David Bebbington (Stirling), Stuart Piggin (Macquarie), and John Wolffe
(Open University), who have been treasured colleagues and fellow-travellers
in the craft of history for many decades. Without the sage advice (and
extensive networks) of these friends, and of expert figures such as Brian
Stanley (Edinburgh), during the preparation of this volume, the range of
authorial input would have been more limited than it is. They performed
repeated‘saves’when(asisinevitablewhenoperatingacrossfivecontinentsin
everyimaginableacademic context)some participatingauthors droppedout,
refusedtoansweremails,moved,orjustwentsilent.Thereader’sindulgenceis
sought if the result of this global treasure hunt has been that rather more of
this volume was written by the editor than was originally intended. This is
partiallythecostofrealworkingrelationshipswithscholarswho—inGhana,
orIndia,orevenonthetransitoryedgesoftheacademicedificesoftheWest—
oftendon’tworkinpositionswherestudyleaveorfundingisavailable.This,to
me,makestheirworkallthemoreremarkable,andIadmirethemforit.
Finally,tothethirdgenerationwhoknockedquietlyattheclosededitorial
door—Lily and Oliver, Simona, Will, and Allegra—the often absent figure
knownvariouslyasnonnoorziowouldlikeyouknowthatyouarealwaysin
hisheart.Theworldisyoursandyourtalentsgreat:treatthembothkindly.
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Contents
ListofContributors ix
SeriesIntroductionbyTimothyLarsenandMarkA.Noll xiii
Introduction:DissentingTraditionsinGlobalizedSettings 1
MarkP.HutchinsonandCandyGuntherBrown
1. EncounterswithModernityamongReceivedSpiritualitiesand
Traditions 26
CandyGuntherBrown
2. DissentingTraditionsandPoliticsintheAnglophoneWorld 61
GordonL.Heath
3. TheBibleintheTwentieth-CenturyAnglophoneWorld 91
MarkP.Hutchinson
4. BiblicalInterpretationintheMajorityWorld 131
K.K.Yeo
5. DissentingPreachingintheTwentieth-Century
AnglophoneWorld 170
MarkP.Hutchinson
6. PreachingintheGlobalSouth 199
JasonA.Carter
7. EmergentandAdaptiveSpiritualitiesintheTwentiethCentury 224
AndyLord
8. GlocalizedandIndigenizedTheologiesintheTwentiethCentury 258
MarkP.Hutchinson
9. OrganizingforMinistryintheAnglophoneWorld:Reception,
Adaptation,andInnovation 296
BarryEnsign-George
10. TheManufactureofDissent:ReflexiveChristianTraditions
inaGlobalSetting 326
GrahamA.Duncan
11. DissentingTraditionsandMissionaryImaginations:Novel
PerspectivesontheTwentiethCentury 377
JustinD.Livingstone
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12. Gender,Race,andTwentieth-CenturyDissentingTraditions 416
LauraRademaker
13. Mission,Evangelism,andTranslation:FromtheWest
toElsewhere 443
AtolaLongkumer
14. FromReversetoInversetoOmni-NodalDissenting
ProtestantMission 466
MarkP.Hutchinson
15. Communications,NewTechnologies,andInnovation 491
J.KwabenaAsamoah-Gyadu
Index 523
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List of Contributors
J.KwabenaAsamoah-GyaduisBaeta-GrauProfessorofContemporaryAfrican
ChristianityandPentecostalStudiesattheTrinityTheologicalSeminary,Legon,
Accra,Ghana.HehaspublishedwidelyonWorldChristianity,includingarticles
and book chapters on conservative evangelicalism and media in Africa and
among African immigrant communities in Europe and North America. His
publications include Contemporary Pentecostal Christianity: Interpretations
from an African Context (Eugene, 2013); Pentecostal Mission and Global
Christianity(Eugene,2014);andSighsandSignsoftheSpirit:GhanaianPerspec-
tivesonPentecostalismandRenewalinAfrica(Oxford,2015).
CandyGuntherBrownisProfessorofReligiousStudiesatIndianaUniversity,
Bloomington. A historian and ethnographer of religion and culture, her
particularfocusistheUnitedStates(understoodwithinbroaderglobalcultural
flows), and global charismatic healing practices. She has published widely,
includingTheWordintheWorld:EvangelicalWriting,Publishing,andRead-
ing in America, 1789–1880 (Chapel Hill, 2004); Global Pentecostal and Cha-
rismaticHealing(edited;NewYork,2011);TestingPrayer:ScienceandHealing
(Cambridge,2012);TheHealingGods:ComplementaryandAlternativeMedi-
cineinChristianAmerica(NewYork,2013),andTheFutureofEvangelicalism
inAmerica(co-editedwithMarkSilk;NewYork,2016).
Jason A. Carter has been involved in the training and equipping of pastors
andleadersforovertenyearsinCentralAfrica.InEquatorialGuinea,hehas
served as a full-time Professor of Theology, Mission, and Biblical Studies at
Instituto Bíblico ‘Casa de la Palabra’ (IBCP Seminary). He is the author of
InsidetheWhirlwind:TheBookofJobthroughAfricanEyes(Eugene,2017).
Graham A. Duncan is Emeritus Professor of Church History and Church
Polity at the University of Pretoria. A church historian and missiologist, his
particularfocus isonSouthAfricanmissionhistorywithaspecialinterestin
the history of Presbyterianism and theological education. He has published
widely,includingLovedale—CoerciveAgency:PowerandResistanceinMission
Education(Pietermaritzburg,2003);PartnershipinMission(CapeTown,2008);
and The Native School that Caused all the Trouble: A History of the Federal
TheologicalSeminaryofSouthernAfrica(withPhilippeDenis;Pietermaritzburg,
2011).HeisalsoinvolvedintheworkoftheNationalResearchFoundationand
theCouncilonHigherEducationinSouthAfrica.
Barry Ensign-George served for twelve years as Associate for Theology in
the Office of Theology & Worship of the Presbyterian Church, USA. He has