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Christianity and Cultures
This volume is a way of marking an important milestone in the relatively short story of the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies (OCMS). The papers here have been exclusively sourced from Transformation, a quarterly journal of OCMS, and seek to provide a tripartite view of Christianity's engagement with cultures by focusing on the question: How is Christian thinking being formed or reformed through its interaction with the varied contexts it encounters? As Christianity has taken and still takes shape in multiple contexts, it naturally results in a variety of expressions and emphases. One can gain an appreciation of these by studying different strands of theological-missiological thinking, sociopolitical engagement, and forms of family relationships in interaction with host cultures.
For the Knowledge of the Glory of the Lord
In celebrating its fortieth anniversary, this book narrates the past and present of the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies. The book is full of hidden stories of this forty-year journey. The book contributes to the continuing legacy of OCMS as a true decolonializing institution, encouraging scholars from the Majority World to theologize from their own context, and so contribute to the construction of a true world Christianity.
The Bible and Christian Ethics
This book contains essays from the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies' quarterly journal, Transformation, on the topic of Christian Ethics. The papers were selected from volumes published over a period of twenty-five years, during which period Transformation grew from an international journal merely covering Christian social ethics to one of Holistic Mission Studies. Here, Mission Studies is understood in its widest sense to also encompass Christian Ethics. At the very heart of it lies the family as the basic unit of society. We see that all of the other essays on the themes of word and works, poverty, justice, and environment relate primarily to this theme. All the papers together seek to contribute to understanding how Christian thought is shaped in various contexts, each of which poses its own challenges to Christian living in family and in broader society.
Jesus and the Cross
The essays in this volume are organized in three parts: scriptural, contextual, and theological. The central question being addressed is: How do Christians living in contexts where Islam is a majority or minority religion experience, express, or think of the cross? This is therefore an exercise in listening. As the contexts from where these engagements arise are varied, the essays, in drawing scriptural, contextual, and theological reflections, offer a cross-section of Christian thinking about Jesus and the cross.
Islamization in Modern South Asia
This book explores the religious identity of the indigenous Gujjars living in Rajaji National Park (RNP), Uttarakhand, India. In the broader context of forest conservation discourse, steps taken by the local government to relocate the Gujjars outside RNP have been crucial in their choice to associate with NGOs and Deobandi Muslims. These intersecting associations constitute the context of their transitioning religious identity. The book presents a rich account of the actual process of Islamization through the collaborative agency of Deobandi madrasas and Tablighi Jama‘at. Based on documents and interviews collected over four years, it constructs a particular case of Deobandi reform and als...
Jesus and the Incarnation
In the dialogue of Christians with Muslims, nothing is more fundamental than the cross, the incarnation, and the resurrection of Jesus. This book brings forth the voices of Christians living in various Islamic contexts and reflecting on the incarnation of Jesus. The aim of these reflections is constructive, and the hope is that the essays woven around the notion of the Word will not only promote dialogue among Christians on the roles of the Person and the Book, but will also create a positive environment for their conversations with Muslim neighbors.
Union with God in Christ
A significant number of Muslim communities throughout the world reflect varying degrees of involvement in Islamic mysticism. What bridges are present in this context that will facilitate not only evangelism, but also discipleship and community formation? Matthew Friedman guides the reader on a journey examining the response of the early Christian community to the challenges of ancient Jewish and Hellenic mysticism, focusing on the central idea of "union with God in Christ." Far from finding this to be a leftover from the early Church, he discovers that this theme remained crucial into the Reformation, particularly in the writing and work of eighteenth-century figures John and Charles Wesley.Join Friedman as he explores resources for discipleship and community building that will be relevant to both scholars and practitioners alike, and will be effective for witness within modern contexts of Islamic mysticism worldwide.
