Century christianity the global south kim kim

McCormick Theological Seminary

5460 S. University Av., Chicago, IL 60615

Section B (Wednesdays, 6:00-8:50)

Instructor: Dr. David Daniels

This course surveys the history of Christianity as a world movement since 1453.  The course will explore the transition of the Church from the medieval to the modern period, the modern to the post-modern period, and the majority of Christians being in the West to the majority again residing in the global South.  Focus will be given to the Christian movement on the various continents.  Theological paradigms and renewal currents will be placed in historical context. Secondary texts and primary documents will constitute the reading.  The lectures will offer alternative interpretations to the secondary readings.

Klaus Koschorke, et al, editors, A History of Christianity in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, 1450 1990:  A Documentary Sourcebook (Grand Rapids, MI:  Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2007)

Gonzalez, Justo and Ordina Gonzalez, Christianity in Latin America (Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 2008)

Robert Kaggwa, Christianity in Africa (Oxford, UK:  Blackwell, forthcoming)

Moffett, Samuel Hugh, History of Christianity in Asia: 1500 To 1900 (New York:  HarperCollins, 2005)

Mary Farrell Bednarowski, ed., Twentieth-century Global Christianity: A People's History of Christianity (Minneapolis:  AugsburgFortress, 2008)

Dyron B. Daughrity , The Changing World of Christianity: The Global History of a Borderless Religion (New York:  Peter Lang, 2010)

http://academic.bowdoin.edu/WritingGuides/

III. Select one quote from each of the primary readings.

OR

Two Document Analysis Essays:

Possible Other Resources (also note the optional resources above)

Scott Sunquist, et al, eds. A Dictionary of Asian Christianity

Samuel Hugh Moffett, History of Christianity in Asia:  1500 to 1900

Clyde Manschreck, History of Christianity (Documents)

Other Skill-building Exercises

Discussion Group and Class Participation 10%

Reflection Papers 20%

Students are expected to attend on time all class sessions, including the discussion groups, to receive credit for the course. Attendance can be in-person or via Zoom.

Irvin/Sunquist, Intro & pages 1-7; chapters 1, 2 & 3

Latin America

Koschorke, D 235:  Mexico:  Rel. Dialogue between the Aztecs and Franciscans (1524)

Africa

Koschorke, D 121:  The Manikongo Complains about Unfit Priests (1514)

Weeks III (Feb. 15-16) Ecclesial Currents in 16th Century Europe

On-line links

Marty E. Marty, “Which Luther? (378),” Christian Century, February 10, 2004, pp. 30-31. http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=2931

Twelve Articles of the Peasants

http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=190

Bettenson IX: II b Elizabeth’s Act of Uniformity (1559)

Bettenson IX: II f Act against Puritans (1593)

Bettenson X: II a-h The Council of Trent (1545-1565)

Bettenson X:  III  The Tridentine Profession of Faith (1564)

and theology” in The Journal from the Radical Reformation (Spring, 2002:

1-30), http://www.socinian.org/files/FaustusSocini.pdf

Koschorke, D 10b:  South India:  The Paravas (1542-1544)

Koschorke, D 15:  Japan:  Rel. Debates between Jesuits and Buddhists (1551)

Irvin/Sunquist, chapters 12, 13 & 15

Uploaded Handouts:  Locke, Newton, Hume, Voltaire, Gibbon

Bettenson, Section XII:  II a,b,c: The Organization of the Methodists

John Winthrop, A Model of Christian Charity (1630)

Ann Bradstreet, A Dialogue Between Old England and New (1630)

http://www.vgskole.net/prosjekt/slavrute/22.htm (excerpt on Igbo religion)

Thomas Paine (1797), A Letter to a Friend Regarding the Age of Reason in

http://www.deism.com/paine.htm

Irvin/Sunquist, chapters 9 & 14

Koschorke D 141:  An African Pastor Concerning India as Model

Koschorke D 146: Olaudah Equino (1789)

Week VIII (March 29-30) Christianity in Asia (1600-1880)

Koschorke D 24c “The True Meaning…of the Lord of Heaven” (1603)

Koschorke D 24d A Chinese Voice on Ricci [Li Zhi] (c1600)

Koschorke D 28 Prohibition of Chinese Rites by Clement XI (1704)

Koschorke D 35 Religious Dialogue with Hindu [Tranquebar, India] (1714)

Koschorke D 33b Korean Underground Theology:  ... “Essentials of the Lord’s

Teaching” by Chong Yak-jong Augustine (c1796)

Koschorke D 51a “The Commandments of Jesus the Leader for Peace and Happiness”

[Raja Rammohun Roy] (1820)

Koschorke D 59b From Their [Japanese] Scripture “The Beginning of Heaven and Earth”

Koschorke D 61b The Ten Commandments and the Lord’s Prayer among the Taiping

Koschorke D 76 Ceylon:  Petition for an “Independent Native Church” (1878)

Koschorke D 244b J. de Palafox y Mendoza:  On the Piety and Life of the Indians (1640)

Koschorke D 245a A Morning Prayer of the Evangelized Quechua (c1600)

Koschorke D 267 Simon Bolivar:  On the Rights of the Indian (1825)

Koschorke D 272 Indian Religiosity in the Andes (1801)

Alister E. McGrath, Christian Theology:  An Introduction, 2nd (Malden:  Blackwell Publishing), chapter 4 (The Modern Period), pp. 85-137

July 22, 1953, pp. 840-842.

http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=2531

Koschorke D 183 Italian Occupation of Ethiopia and Nigerian Critique (1935)

Bettenson XIV:  II c  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letter of 21 July 1944

Select a combined total of 10 entries from each of the continents.

Koschorke D 289 Brazil:  German Immigrants and the Third Reich (1934)

Koschorke D 293 Brazil:  Black African Popular Piety (1941)

Koschorke D 170a E. W. Blyden, “Philip and the Eunich” (1882)

Koschorke D 170d Mojola Agbebi, Inaugural Sermon in the “African Church” (1902)

Koschorke D 182 South Africa:  “United we stand, divided we fall” [Mr. Mkize] (1920)

Koschorke D 190 Kaji Tovalou Houenou:  Protest (1924)

Asia

Koschorke D 77 a-d India:  The National Church of India (Madras 1886)

Koschorke D 66a Indian Christians and the Vision of an Indian Church (1908)

Koschorke D 68  Christian Ashrams (1921)

Koschorke D 89 Japan:  Japanese Christians’ Confession of Responsibility (1946)

Bettenson XVI: IV  The Union of South India (1946)

Bettenson XIV: III a, b, c Black Theology in the 1960s

Koschorke D 200 All Africa Conference of Churches:  Africa in Transition (1926)

Koschorke D 210 Manas Buthelezi:  Black Theology (1973)

Bettenson XV: I b The Theology of the Churches and the Jewish People (1948)

Bettenson XIII: V  Declaration, the Church to Non-Christian Religions (c1965)

Koschorke D 316b Manifesto of the Indigenous Peoples (1986)

Bettenson XV: III PWR, Declaration Toward a Global Ethic (1993)