Christianity In Asia Research Articles

Preparing the Soil: Notes on the Liberating Theologies in Asia

To war, we respond with life/ To atrocity, we unleash justice/ To inequity, we thunder with liberation/ We are leading the way to/ prepare the soil for our/ people's fruit. These words by a group of Filipino women point to a new theological energy at work in Asia today. The setting for this new theological energy is not the cathedral or the classroom but the rice fields, the urban slums, the prisons. It is the struggle for a more just and humane world which gives shape and form to this theology. It is also the theology of a minority of a minority. Christians represent less than 2 percent of the total population in Asia. Almost 50 percent of that 2 percent are found in the Philippines alone. Hence in relative figures, Christianity would not appear to be particularly significant in Asia; but in absolute figures the picture is quite different. There are well over 100 million Christians in Asia, with approximately 14,000,000 in India alone and over 17,000,000 in Indonesia.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.

Book Review: Asian Christian Theology: Emerging Themes

Book Review: Asian Christian Theology: Emerging Themes

Book Review: What Asian Christians are Thinking. A Theological Source Book

Book Review: What Asian Christians are Thinking. A Theological Source Book

Book Review: What Asian Christians are Thinking: A Theological Source Book

Book Review: What Asian Christians are Thinking: A Theological Source Book

The Challenge of Asian Christianity

The Challenge of Asian Christianity

On Suffering and Baptism in i pEter

That I Peter directed to Christian communities undergoing suffering cannot reasonably be doubted: in every chapter there reference at some point to actual or potential suffering on the part of the Asian Christians addressed (i 6 f., ii 19 ff., iii 13 ff., iv 12 ff. and v 9). Running through the whole letter, observes J. N. D. KELLY, 1), is the assumption that the recipients are being, or at any moment are liable to be, subjected to trials and persecutions.

The Earliest Asian Christianity

The Earliest Asian Christianity

Asian Christian Thinking: Studies in a Metaphor and its Message. By Cecil Hargreaves. Delhi, ISPCK, CLS, and LPH, 1972. Pp. 183. Price in UK, 75P.

Asian Christian Thinking: Studies in a Metaphor and its Message. By Cecil Hargreaves. Delhi, ISPCK, CLS, and LPH, 1972. Pp. 183. Price in UK, 75P.

THE LIMITS‐TO‐GROWTH DEBATE IN ASIAN PERSPECTIVE

The Ecumenical ReviewVolume 26, Issue 1 p. 33-52 THE LIMITS-TO-GROWTH DEBATE IN ASIAN PERSPECTIVE Samuel L. Parmar, Samuel L. Parmar Professor of Economics, Allahabad University, India, Chairman of the Working Group on Church and Society, World Council of Churches, and a member of the WCC Commission on the Churches' Participation in Development. This article was presented to the Asian Christian Conference on the Scientific, Technological and Social Revolutions in Asian Perspective, Kuala Lumpur, April 1973.Search for more papers by this author Samuel L. Parmar, Samuel L. Parmar Professor of Economics, Allahabad University, India, Chairman of the Working Group on Church and Society, World Council of Churches, and a member of the WCC Commission on the Churches' Participation in Development. This article was presented to the Asian Christian Conference on the Scientific, Technological and Social Revolutions in Asian Perspective, Kuala Lumpur, April 1973.Search for more papers by this author First published: January 1974 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1758-6623.1974.tb02407.x Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Volume26, Issue1January 1974Pages 33-52 RelatedInformation

Pauline Theology in the Letter to the Colossians

The letter addressed to the Christian Chruch in Colossae speaks to a definite situation of Christianity in Asia Minor. This situation is not known to us from direct reports, but has to be inferred from hints and allusions within the letter. Though an absolutely certain result cannot be attained in every respect, nevertheless a sufficiently clear picture emerges. From the polemical argument carried on in the second chapter of the letter one can gather a whole series of catch-words and themes which were used by a group that worked their way into the congregation and offered it a new teaching. What sort of a teaching was it, and why does it present such a dangerous threat to a congregation which wants to remain true to the apostolic Gospel?

The Changing and Unchanged Mission

The following address was delivered at the Annual Assembly of the Division of Foreign Missions, National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America, meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, December 7–10, 1958. The Reverend Eliezer D. Mapanao has been co-pastor of the Ellinwood-Malate Church, Manila, of the United Church of Christ in the Philippines. He has been active also in interdenominational youth and student work in the Philippines end a delegate to several international conferences. At present he is doing graduate study in theology at Harvard Divinity School. We are happy to publish his thoughtful, evangelical and challenging paper. The “younger churches” which have been recipients of mission are now becoming participants in mission and are giving us fresh insights and interpretations en the meaning of the Christian world mission. Here is a new and authentic voice of Asian Christianity. Ed.

THE DECLINE AND SURVIVAL OF CHRISTIANITY IN ASIA

International Review of MissionVolume 42, Issue 4 p. 398-405 THE DECLINE AND SURVIVAL OF CHRISTIANITY IN ASIA G. FRANCIS S. GRAY, G. FRANCIS S. GRAYSearch for more papers by this author G. FRANCIS S. GRAY, G. FRANCIS S. GRAYSearch for more papers by this author First published: October 1953 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1758-6631.1953.tb03756.xRead the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Volume42, Issue4October 1953Pages 398-405 RelatedInformation

CHRISTIANS AND COMMUNISM IN ASIA

International Review of MissionVolume 40, Issue 159 p. 296-304 CHRISTIANS AND COMMUNISM IN ASIA JOHN C. BENNETT D.D., JOHN C. BENNETT D.D.Search for more papers by this author JOHN C. BENNETT D.D., JOHN C. BENNETT D.D.Search for more papers by this author First published: July 1951 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1758-6631.1951.tb01722.xAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Volume40, Issue159July 1951Pages 296-304 RelatedInformation

The Crib of Christ and the Bowl of Buddha

AMONG THE few monuments of Uighur literature accessible to scholarly investigation there is an elaborate narrative of the ' Adoration of the Magi,' found in eastern Turkestan and published by F. W. K. Muller, in 1908.1 The date of this incomplete version of the legend has not yet been established with precision, but is attributed by competent Turcologists to a period around or before the year 1000.2 However that may be, this text gives evidence of the popularity of the Biblical episode among the Christians of Asia, who worshipped the Magi as their fellow countrymen and as consecrated testimony of Eastern priority in the recognition of Christ's mission on earth. The legend spread throughout the continent in the wake of Nestorian expansion.3 The inscription of Sianfu (781) mentions ' Persians . . . who came forth to pay tribute' to the divine Child.4 As late as the

REVIEWS

REVIEWS Get access The Nestorian Churches. A concise history of Nestorian Christianity in Asia from the Persian Schism to the modern Assyrians, by AUBREY R. VINE. Pp. 227. ( Independent Press, London, 1937.) L. E. BROWNE L. E. BROWNE Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Journal of Theological Studies, Volume os-XXXVIII, Issue 152, October 1937, Page 427, https://doi.org/10.1093/jts/os-XXXVIII.152.427 Published: 01 October 1937

Book Review: The Eclipse of Christianity in Asia

Book Review: The Eclipse of Christianity in Asia

The Eclipse of Christianity in Asia. Laurence E. Browne

The Eclipse of Christianity in Asia. Laurence E. Browne

The Eclipse of Christianity in Asia, from the time of Muhammad till the fourteenth century. By L. E. Browne, Henry Martyn School of Islamics, Lahore. 9 × 6, pp. 198. Cambridge University Press, 1933. 10s. 6d.

The Eclipse of Christianity in Asia, from the time of Muhammad till the fourteenth century. By L. E. Browne, Henry Martyn School of Islamics, Lahore. 9 × 6, pp. 198. Cambridge University Press, 1933. 10<i>s</i>. 6<i>d</i>.

The. Eclipse of Christianity in Asia

The. Eclipse of Christianity in Asia