{"product_id":"five-distinctives-of-world-christian","title":"Five Distinctives Of World Christian","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Five Distinctives of World Christianity: A Framework for Understanding a Global Faith proposes a model for conceptualizing the processes and themes shared across World Christianity. The volume builds out of and honors the work of Carlos Cardoza-Orlandi who, through a career's worth of engagement with World Christianity, has identified the following distinctives as essential to the ways in which Christianity interacts with its cultural contexts: 1) cross-cultural diffusion, 2) translatability, 3) polycentricity, 4) indigenous expressions of the divine, and 5) biography. This volume draws together a range of World Christianity scholars in critical and collaborative discourse about these distinctives, built around their own research areas. It is a contribution to the study of World Christianity that distills its founding insights while pushing them, through the contributors' essays, toward deeper engagement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThough crucial for the way his students approach World Christianity, these themes are yet to receive collective attention in a single volume. The volume is designed for teaching, with ten essays from an array of scholars of World Christianity, focused around these five themes. Each theme contains one Latin American-focused essay paired with either an African- or Asian-focused essay tending to the same distinctive. Each distinctives' section also contains a brief introduction, highlighting the development of the distinctive within the discourse, and each section ends with select bibliographies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the spirit of Cardoza-Orlandi's character and scholarship, this volume's essays exemplify, evaluate, critique, and even imagine what these distinctives may be beyond the original formulation. Moreover, the volume is a collaboration between World Christianity's established and emerging scholars. In doing so, it hopes to embody the best of the existing discourse and tradition while looking toward its future.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ryan Ramsey","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49047567696026,"sku":"9781481321297","price":22.74,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0978\/6912\/files\/10117715_LRG.jpg?v=1787305593","url":"https:\/\/www.re-vived.com\/products\/five-distinctives-of-world-christian","provider":"Re-vived","version":"1.0","type":"link"}