Power and identity in the global church : six contemporary cases / Brian M. Howell and Edwin Zehner, editors. - Pasadena, Calif. : William Carey Library, c2009. - vi, 245 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-208) and index.

Contextualizing context : exploring Christian identity in the global church through six contemporary cases / Brian M. Howell -- Paul in Japan : a fresh reading of Romans and Galatians / J. Nelson Jennings -- Contextualization from the ground : Longuda Lutherans in Nigeria / Todd Vanden Berg -- Local language and global faith : choosing church language in the Philippines / Brian M. Howell -- Identity matters : Christianity and ethnic identity in the peninsular Basque Country / Steven J. Ybarrola -- Contextualization and ethnicity : millenarian discource among the Bayano Kuna in Panama / Eric J. Moeller -- Beyond anti-syncretism : gospel, context and authority in the New Testament and in Thai conversions to Christianity / Edwin Zehner.

9780878085132 (pbk.) 0878085130 (pbk.)

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Christianity and culture--Case studies.
Identification (Religion)--Case studies.

BR115.C8 / P675 2009

261.089/009