Knowledge Commons | World Christianity | Activity https://hcommons.org/groups/world-christianity/ Activity feed for the group, World Christianity. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:09:45 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 3d49ca38d6728f0c71bab08aa090017c Matthew Korpman deposited "More Than An Afterthought: Adventists Addressing Climate Change," Adventist Today 30.1 (2022): 21-23. in the group World Christianity https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870489/ Wed, 10 Jan 2024 03:03:03 -0500 A survey of Adventist church statements regarding church policy in the North American Division and World Church regarding Climate Change. It will be argued that unlike other policies the Adventist church supports, its statements on Climate Change lack the typical biblical support common for other initiatives and indicates a lack of spiritual…[Read more]

]]> 0 a372d4a5d362f9aa4375c9bb9e7d2db5 Matthew Korpman deposited "What is “the Middle”? Theological Diversity in Valentinian Christianity," Academia Letters (2021): 1-5. in the group World Christianity https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870481/ Wed, 10 Jan 2024 03:02:31 -0500 This short-form article explores the various presentations of "the Middle" within Valentinian authored documents (the Gospel of Truth and Gospel of Philip) and sources which report about the Valentinians (Irenaeus and his report about Ptolemy's theology). It suggests underscores the deep distinctions each view has and suggests that these may be…[Read more]

]]> 0 15c5e17596848bc8b249a910b17ba6f6 Matthew Korpman deposited "Fighting the Divine: Relational Theology as Confrontational." Pages 37-42 in Partnering with God: Exploring Collaboration in Open and Relational Theology. Edited by Thomas Jay Oord, B. Rambob, F. Stedman, and Tim Reddish. Grasmere, ID: SacraSage, 2021. in the group World Christianity https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870472/ Wed, 10 Jan 2024 03:01:57 -0500 This essay seeks to introduce briefly the background and idea of what can be called a confrontational approach to theology. It will begin by outlining the biblical background of this often-ignored portrait and then will proceed to outline how this theological approach can breathe new life into various approaches toward God.

]]> 0 a893eba3522307740d812b3bc562672e Matthew Korpman deposited "Doubt Everything." Pages 57-69 in Before You Lose Your Mind: Deconstructing Bad Theology in the Church. Edited by Keith Giles. Orange, CA: Quoir, 2021. in the group World Christianity https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870469/ Wed, 10 Jan 2024 03:01:40 -0500 In this chapter, a biblical overview of the topic of doubt is provided, focused on the Gospel accounts. A theological argument is made for the necessity and contribution of doubt toward the process of faith.

]]> 0 9795220e30cbe1c5c05372d19fd851a3 Nathan Gibson deposited Cross-Communal Scholarly Interactions in the group World Christianity https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1829670/ Sat, 14 Jan 2023 02:25:14 -0500 This chapter traces cross-communal interactions in the fields of medicine, mathematics and what the historical actors called the natural sciences. It discusses various modern interpretations of those interactions and engages with a number of historical problems researchers face when studying the extant sources. After a substantive survey of the…[Read more]

]]> 0 db6c8e9ed18807575fe8b38b7c86fc0a Alexander Chow started the topic CfP: Yale-Edinburgh 2020 in the discussion World Christianity https://hcommons.org/groups/world-christianity/forum/topic/cfp-yale-edinburgh-2020/ Thu, 30 Jan 2020 14:10:25 -0500 Oral, Print, and Digital Cultures in World Christianity and the History of Mission

New College, University of Edinburgh, 25–27 June 2020

Proposals due: March 6, 2020

Registration deadline: March 30, 2020

The next meeting of the Yale-Edinburgh Group on World Christianity and the History of Mission will take place in New College, University of E…[Read more]

]]> 588d6b67f7c012533002b88893be9035 Nathan Gibson deposited Inquiring of ‘Beelzebub’: Timothy and al-Jāḥiẓ on Christians in the ʿAbbāsid Legal System in the group World Christianity https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1628608/ Thu, 10 Jan 2019 16:50:21 -0500 This study juxtaposes the concerns of Catholicos Timothy I (r. 780–823), leader of the Church of the East, with those of al-Jāḥiẓ (about 776–868/9), a popular Muslim writer, regarding the dangers for each community when Christians appear as plaintiffs or defendants in Islamic courts. Timothy’s Canons attempt to obviate some of the reasons…[Read more]

]]> 0 6fee5e8134e1682bf4c62c9e8130c6a8 Wladimir Fischer-Nebmaier deposited Der heilige Sava in serbischen Diskursen. Eine kulturhistorische Annäherung, in the group World Christianity https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1623550/ Mon, 12 Nov 2018 16:25:53 -0500 Eine kurze Geschichte der Heiligenverehrung rund um den wichtigsten serbisch-orthodoxen Heiligen. Dargestellt aus einer kultur-anthropologischen Perspektive und im Kontext der politischen Mythologien verschiedener Bewegungen serbischer Identitätsprojekte: vom Mittelalter bis in die Neuzeit, von dynastischer Kulturpropaganda bis zum…[Read more]

]]> 0 f2db8a8bdbede67f5f1b00dcd99726c7 Victor Zorrilla deposited Consideraciones sobre la doctrina del derecho de guerra en José de Acosta in the group World Christianity https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1616334/ Thu, 23 Aug 2018 16:25:24 -0400 En el marco de las controversias indianas del siglo XVI, la obra de José de Acosta (1540-1600) refleja una nueva actitud intelectual que, más que plantearse el problema de la legitimidad del dominio español en América o los modos moralmente aceptables de conseguirlo, se enfrenta a la necesidad de asumir los hechos consumados y orientar el fun…[Read more]

]]> 0 64db70680af4534860fbedc72c8a920e Nathan Gibson deposited Biblia Arabica: An Update on the State of Research in the group World Christianity https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1610727/ Thu, 14 Jun 2018 04:13:01 -0400 The aim of this contribution is to review some of the major areas of current research on the Arabic Bible, along with the factors and trends contributing to them. Also we present some of the tools that are currently under development in the Biblia Arabica team, Munich.

We provide here a very condensed survey of the transmission of traditions,…[Read more]

]]> 0 1ec96f42278c7eaa4f81fe3eefc8f2cb Nathan Gibson deposited Modeling a Body of Literature in TEI: The New Handbook of Syriac Literature in the group World Christianity https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1570224/ Fri, 12 May 2017 01:00:38 -0400 The New Handbook of Syriac Literature (NHSL) is a born-digital TEI-encoded reference work for the study of Syriac literature. The first volume, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca Electronica, was published by Syriaca.org in 2016 using a simple TEI schema to describe a single genre (hagiography) (Saint-Laurent et al. 2016; see also Saint-Laurent…[Read more]

]]> 0 b26bf7a5cad98cc8316c3c5711e25445 Robert Wells deposited A Deep Description of Cross Pressured Christian Identity in the group World Christianity https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1569198/ Thu, 04 May 2017 01:02:04 -0400 According to Charles Taylor, faith in a secular age is cross-pressured; that is, it is contested by the presence of multiple accounts of belief and unbelief in contemporary Western culture. According to Taylor, these multiple accounts fragilize our own accounts of faith. This fragilization is what nurtures the conditions for believing today and…[Read more]

]]> 0 9e6e0dc70ef7bf6523eda1177580ce8c Victor Zorrilla deposited Economía, riqueza y ética en Bartolomé de las Casas y José de Acosta (Economy, Wealth and Ethics in Bartolomé de las Casas and José de Acosta) in the group World Christianity https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1561049/ Sat, 04 Feb 2017 01:00:01 -0500 The new economic realities that arose from the Spanish presence in America produced a lively debate as part of the Indian Controversies of the sixteenth century. Two important theoreticians, the Dominican friar Bartolomé de las Casas (1484-1566) and the Jesuit José de Acosta (1540-1600) differed from one another in important ways, but n…[Read more]

]]> 0 86da5b1f205205ae5f151aca7412dbad Paolo Aranha started the topic Journal of World Christianity in the discussion World Christianity https://hcommons.org/groups/world-christianity/forum/topic/journal-of-world-christianity/ Fri, 27 Jan 2017 12:28:47 -0500 The "Journal of World Christianity" was relaunched last year with a special issue devoted to the Munich School of World Christianity.

The journal is now published by the Penn State University Press.

The current and previous issues can be accessed through JSTOR:

http://www.jstor.org/journal/jworlchri

]]> cbf48ce53743691ca20a8bffd3af4ef6 Paolo Aranha deposited REVIEW: Giuseppe Marcocci, "L'invenzione di un impero. Politica e cultura nel mondo portoghese (1450-1600)", (Rome: Cacucci, 2011) in the group World Christianity https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1559050/ Thu, 26 Jan 2017 01:15:53 -0500 Review of a book by Giuseppe Marcocci on politics and culture in the Portuguese Empire in the long 15th century.

]]> 0 481652849dcb0a1e274b0033a1e3d22e Paolo Aranha deposited From Meliapor to Mylapore, 1662-1749: The Portuguese presence in São Tomé between the Quṭb Shāhī conquest and its incorporation in British Madras in the group World Christianity https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1559046/ Thu, 26 Jan 2017 01:15:51 -0500 This chapter explores the survival of a Portuguese presence in Mylapore (today a suburb of Chennai, South India) after the loss of its political and military autonomy. Notions of sovereignty and the boundaries between a pre-colonial and a fully colonial dimension are here questioned on the basis of a little known case study.

]]> 0 546d3a365d0052bcfe8bc4dc4e6fbb93 Paolo Aranha deposited “Les meilleures Causes embarassent les Juges, si elles manquent de bonnes preuves": Père Norbert’s Militant Historiography on the Malabar Rites Controversy in the group World Christianity https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1559042/ Thu, 26 Jan 2017 01:15:50 -0500 Norbert Bar-Le-Duc (1697- 1769), also known as Abbé Jacques Platel, Pierre Parisot, Pierre Curel, traversed identities and continents, making a career out of controversy, becoming knowns as “le fameux Père Norbert”. He worked in South India as a missionary in 1736-1739 and thereafter played a pivotal role in the Malabar Rites controversy. Back…[Read more]

]]> 0 186a09dc907dee8e23a8ee404481a308 Paolo Aranha deposited Roberto Nobili e il dialogo interreligioso? in the group World Christianity https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1559038/ Thu, 26 Jan 2017 01:15:48 -0500 This chapter challenges the idea tha Roberto Nobili was a pioneer of interreligious dialogue and inculturation. On the contrary, it suggests that his interest for our times is rather his theology of religions. A man of the Counter-Reformation, Nobili made propositions as daring as the ones of today's "Asian theology".

]]> 0 f9ba8f12e4f277941286ad19e461bcda Paolo Aranha deposited La formazione del giovane Roberto Nobili in the group World Christianity https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1559034/ Thu, 26 Jan 2017 01:15:46 -0500 This article is an archival contribution to the reassessment of the concrete phases of Roberto Nobili's education. Here I demonstrate that, contrary to what previous historians repeated, Nobili's involvement with the College Romano was very short. Moreover, I have discovered that, before joining the Society of Jesus, he studied at the Seminario…[Read more]

]]> 0 dc9b0553aa8c6c22ad7bbdda4efc9eda Paolo Aranha deposited Gerarchie razziali e adattamento culturale: La «Ipotesi Valignano» in the group World Christianity https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1559030/ Thu, 26 Jan 2017 01:15:44 -0500 The Jesuit missionary Alessandro Valignano, praised for adapting Christianity to the cultures of Japan and China, did not support a similar strategy for India and Africa. He theorized racial hierarchies in which a darker skin was associated with ignorance and vice, whereas the similarity to European physical features implied a higher degree of…[Read more]

]]> 0 89085353dbe610879c25b287c4ecdcd2 Paolo Aranha deposited Sacramenti o saṃskārāḥ? L’illusione dell’accommodatio nella controversia dei riti malabarici in the group World Christianity https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1559025/ Thu, 26 Jan 2017 01:15:42 -0500 Fra il 1704 ed il 1744 la Santa Sede mise al bando i riti malabarici, una particolare forma di adattamento del cattolicesimo alla società dell'India meridionale.
In una prospettiva eurocentrica essi hanno potuto essere considerati come un'anticipazione dell'odierna categoria di inculturazione. Da un punto di vista specificamente indiano tali…[Read more]

]]> 0 b94b182d85942e9e97c590eb291ee12a Paolo Aranha deposited «Glocal» conflicts: Missionary controversies on the Coromandel Coast between the XVII and XVIII centuries in the group World Christianity https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1559022/ Thu, 26 Jan 2017 01:15:41 -0500 At the beginning of the Eighteenth century the Holy See was called to solve the controversy on the Malabar Rites. The Jesuits that were working in the missions of Madurai, Mysore and «Carnate» were blamed for their tolerance of pagan practices and caste discriminations against the pariahs. This article proposes a category of «glocal», syn…[Read more]

]]> 0 ee6e05320ac7fb6c726ca08a98a96b5d Paolo Aranha deposited Early Modern Asian Catholicism and European Colonialism: Dominance, Hegemony and Native Agency in the Portuguese Estado da Índia in the group World Christianity https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1559014/ Thu, 26 Jan 2017 01:00:21 -0500 The history of the early modern Catholic missions to Asia provides an excellent vantage point to asses the relation between evangelization and colonialism. If the European expansion was an essential pre-condition for the creation of substantial Catholic communities in
that continent, nonetheless the neophytes did not coincide for most of the…[Read more]

]]> 0 8435e7dfcb9ea70f874fd6ff1f36b15b Paolo Aranha deposited The Social and Physical Spaces of the Malabar Rites Controversy in the group World Christianity https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1559011/ Thu, 26 Jan 2017 01:00:20 -0500 In this article I analyse the Malabar Rites controversy in terms of spatial integration and exclusion of the subaltern castes of early modern South India. I argue that the morphology of the churches built by the Jesuits in the Madurai mission express a coherent vision of how the neophyte communities should be socially structured.

]]> 0 fc265f16e198c3762ba17ccbdb2486fe Paolo Aranha deposited Vulgaris seu Universalis: Early Modern Missionary Representations of an Indian Cosmopolitan Space in the group World Christianity https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1559008/ Thu, 26 Jan 2017 01:00:19 -0500 Missionary history has been acknowledged in recent years as a fundamental context for the emergence of European Orientalism. In particular, it is becoming clearer the specific cultural relevance of the Catholic missionaries to India, working under the Portuguese Royal Patronage (Padroado Real), depending from the Roman Congregation De Propaganda…[Read more]

]]> 0 8bb9f757f5caa5808b20c515b3acd0d9 Paolo Aranha started the topic CFA (deadline 1 February 2017) in the discussion World Christianity https://hcommons.org/groups/world-christianity/forum/topic/cfa-deadline-1-february-2017-3/ Wed, 25 Jan 2017 11:55:26 -0500 Pedro Manuel Sobral Pombo and Srinivas Reddy (both at IIT, Gandhinagar) invite scholars to submit paper proposals for their panel "Practices of defiance: Resisting colonial maritime power".
The panel is organized within the Third CHAM (Centro de História d'Aquém e d'Além-Mar) International Conference, scheduled in Lisbon on 12-15 July 2017 and…[Read more]

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