A sizeable number of WCC publications from the Risk Book series were added to the library this month, gift of URC’s General Secretary, Revd John Proctor, filling in gaps in our collection. This ecumenical series examines subjects such as hospitality in ecumenical perspective, challenges to the Church of the Rio Earth summit, the potential of virtual technology for Christianity, and theological reflections on overcoming violence and nurturing peace in war-torn parts of the world. You can find them in our library by doing a search on iDiscover for ‘Risk Book Series’ and refining your search to our library, using the drop-down menu on the search box.

The library also received a number of books relating to the Church in Africa, and Islam, from the library of Revd Roger Bowen, Chair of the Trustees of the Henry Martyn Trust, a gift from Brent Greiner on the Dalits and the struggle for their emancipation, and a selection of past Anglican conference reports from our director, Revd Dr Jesse Zink.

Donations of books have helped our library expand to its present state. We are a small library and space is at a premium, so we review any book donations before we accept them. Do you have any academic books that you think would advance our collection? See our donation page for more details.

Alternatively, if you have any book recommendations, we also welcome these. I have a monthly budget for new purchases. Do email me and I will be glad to review your suggestion.

Ruth MacLean

Purchases

The Holy Bible : English Standard Version, containing the Old and New Testaments (2001,2011) Crossway

Edison Muhindo Kalengyo (2015) Sacrifice in Hebrews and the Pauline epistles Acton Publishers, Kenya

Olara Otunnu (2015) Archbishop Janani Luwum : the life and witness of a 20th century martyr Fountain Publishers, Uganda

Richard Werbner (2015) Divination’s grasp : African encounters with the Almost Said Indiana University Press

Donations

F.G. Carnochan & H.C. Adamson (1937) Out of Africa Cassell and Company Ltd, Ex Libris Revd Roger Bowen, Chair of the Trustees, Henry Martyn Trust

Basil Davidson (1967,70) The growth of African civilisation : East and Central Africa to the late nineteenth century Longman, Ex Libris Revd Roger Bowen, Chair of the Trustees, Henry Martyn Trust

W. Montgomery Watt, completely revised and enlarged the original (1970) Bell’s introduction to the Qur’an Edinburgh University Press, Ex Libris Revd Roger Bowen, Chair of the Trustees, Henry Martyn Trust

Malise Ruthven (1984) Islam in the world Penguin Books, Ex Libris Revd Roger Bowen, Chair of the Trustees, Henry Martyn Trust

Gai Eaton (1985) Islam and the destiny of man George Allen & Unwin, Ex Libris Revd Roger Bowen, Chair of the Trustees, Henry Martyn Trust

Mark E. Glasswell and Edward W. Fashole-Luke, editors (1974) New Testament Christianity for Africa and the world : essays in honour of Harry Sawyer SPCK, Ex Libris Revd Roger Bowen, Chair of the Trustees, Henry Martyn Trust

Paul M. Miller (1969) Equipping for ministry in East Africa Central Tanganyika Press, Ex Libris Revd Roger Bowen, Chair of the Trustees, Henry Martyn Trust

John B. Grimley and Gordon E. Robinson (1966) Church growth in Central and Southern Nigeria William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Ex Libris Revd Roger Bowen, Chair of the Trustees, Henry Martyn Trust

Jacques Jomier; translated by John Bowden from the French (1988,89) How to understand Islam SCM Press Ltd, Ex Libris Revd Roger Bowen, Chair of the Trustees, Henry Martyn Trust

Joseph D’Souza (2004,13) Dalit freedom : now and forever ; the epic struggle for Dalit emancipation Dalit Freedom Network, Gift of Brent Greiner

Aruna Gnanadason (2005) Listen to the women! Listen to the earth! (Risk book Series, No. 111) WCC Publications, Gift of URC’s General Secretary, Revd John Proctor

Deenabandhu Manchala, editor (2005) Nurturing peace : theological reflections on overcoming violence (Risk book Series, No. 112) WCC Publications, Gift of URC’s General Secretary, Revd John Proctor

S. Wesley Ariarajah (2004) Axis of peace : Christian faith in times of violence and war (Risk book Series, No. 106) WCC Publications, Gift of URC’s General Secretary, Revd John Proctor

Wesley Granberg-Michaelson (1992) Redeeming the creation : the Rio Earth Summit; challenges for the churches (Risk book Series, No. 55) WCC Publications, Gift of URC’s General Secretary, Revd John Proctor

Diane C. Kessler, editor (2005) Receive one another : hospitality in ecumenical perspective (Risk book Series, No. 110) WCC Publications, Gift of URC’s General Secretary, Revd John Proctor

Mary Yoder Holsopple, Ruth E. Krall and Sharon Weaver Pittman (2004) Building peace : overcoming violence in communities (Risk book Series, No. 108) WCC Publications, Gift of URC’s General Secretary, Revd John Proctor

Ezra Chitando (2007) Living with hope : African Churches and HIV/AIDS 1 (Risk book Series, No. 119) WCC Publications, Gift of URC’s General Secretary, Revd John Proctor

Ron O’Grady (2006) The threat of tourism : challenge to the Church (Risk book Series, No. 113) WCC Publications, Gift of URC’s General Secretary, Revd John Proctor

Hugh McCullum (2006) Africa’s broken heart : Congo – the land the world forgot (Risk book Series, No. 115) WCC Publications, Gift of URC’s General Secretary, Revd John Proctor

Jean-Nicolas Bazin and Jerome Cottin (2004) Virtual Christianity : potential and challenge for the Churches (Risk book Series, No. 107) WCC Publications, Gift of URC’s General Secretary, Revd John Proctor

Genevieve Jacques (translated from the French by Nathan Lechler; edited by Miriam Reidy-Prost) (2007) Resisting the intolerable : guided by a human rights compass (Risk book Series, No. 117) WCC Publications, Gift of URC’s General Secretary, Revd John Proctor

Margot Kassmann (translated from the German by Nathan Lechler; English edition edited by Stephen Brown) (2007) With hearts, hands and voices : spirituality for everyday life (Risk book Series, No. 118) WCC Publications, Gift of URC’s General Secretary, Revd John Proctor

Robin Gurney (1995) The face of pain and hope : stories of diakonia in Europe WCC Publications, Gift of URC’s General Secretary, Revd John Proctor

John Bluck (2001) The giveaway God : ecumenical Bible studies on divine generosity (Risk book Series, No. 93) WCC Publications, Gift of URC’s General Secretary, Revd John Proctor

Simon Oxley, editor (2005) Springs of living water : Bible studies on grace and transformation (Risk book Series, No. 109) WCC Publications, Gift of URC’s General Secretary, Revd John Proctor

William D. Watley (1993) Singing the Lord’s song in a strange land : the African American churches and ecumenism (Risk book Series, No. 57) WCC Publications, Gift of URC’s General Secretary, Revd John Proctor

Arne Fritzson and Samuel Kabue (2004) Interpreting disability : a church of all and for all (Risk book Series, No. 105) WCC Publications, Gift of URC’s General Secretary, Revd John Proctor

The Lambeth Conference (1930) The Lambeth conference 1930 : encyclical letter from the bishops with resolutions and reports SPCK, Gift of Jesse Zink

The Lambeth Conference (1978) Who’s who at the Lambeth conference, 1978, Gift of Jesse Zink

Anglican Consultative Council (1979) ACC – 4 : Anglican Consultative Council : (report of the) fourth meeting, London, Ontario, Canada, 8th May – 18th May 1979 ACC, Gift of Jesse Zink

Anglican Consultative Council (1976) ACC – 3 : Anglican Consultative Council : (report of the) third meeting, Trinidad, 23rd March – 2nd April 1976 ACC, Gift of Jesse Zink

Anglican Consultative Council (2004) The Windsor Report 2004 : the Lambeth Commission on Communion Anglican Communion Office, Gift of Jesse Zink

Centre Chair Roger Bowen is working to make Swahili-language theological resources available in East Africa.

The Revd. Roger Bowen chairs the Henry Martyn Trust, which operates the Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide. He has long experience working in East Africa and continues to stay engaged with the church in retirement. On a recent trip in February and March, he made significant progress on a project that will make available Swahili-language theological resources to East African Christians. He writes about his visit.

Swahili is the lingua franca of many parts of Eastern Africa, spoken by some 150 million people.  Populations are growing at an average rate of 35-40% every 10 years.  The Church is growing even faster – in some areas doubling in size every 10 years.  It is clear that, facing such a challenge, the church’s ministers need tools for their trade.

In 1977, when I worked in Tanzania, I was involved in a programme that published 40 basic theological text books in Swahili. The goal of these texts was to educate ministers to serve their people and to equip the growing churches. By 2000 most of these titles were out of print, and there was no proposal to reprint them or to issue new theological titles.  The ecumenical Swahili Textbooks Committee of the Eastern Africa Theological Institutions had ceased to function, and the Roman Catholic Bishop of Kondoa wrote, ‘There are no publishers of theology in Tanzania’.  By 2016 pastors and students, most of whom communicate entirely in Swahili, were crying out for help.  This cry was heard by the Revd. John Sembuyagi, Theological Co-ordinator of the Anglican Church of Tanzania, and he shared it with me. I had chaired the Committee that had commissioned all those books over a generation ago.

After contacting SPCK Worldwide and some of the authors of the original works, as well as Lutheran, Baptist and Roman Catholic leaders, all of whom expressed the same need as the Anglicans, we’ve been able to make great progress in restarting a programme of reprinting using the original Tanzanian publishers and a printing house in India.  Even though extensive sales are assured, it will take a long time to build up sufficient capital to reprint the 25 books that church leaders have earmarked as priority titles. Our task now is seek donations from those who wish to offer strategic support to the East African church so that we can accelerate this programme.

The vision for this new work originates not in the United Kingdom but in Tanzania, the home of Swahili. A Memorandum of Understanding drawn up with SPCK will ensure that funds are used to rebuild a basic theological library in Swahili, on the Bible, Church History, Doctrine and Practical Theology, so putting tools in the hands of ministers equipped to use them.

Those interested in more information about the Swahili theological book project may contact the Centre.

As well as a good number of donations, several new purchases were added to our library this month. Some of these purchases were bought following excellent reviews in the International Bulletin of Mission Research (IBMR), and others on the recommendations of staff teaching world Christianity in the Divinity Faculty, University of Cambridge.

One of the books is a recently published one from the Majority World Theology series by Eerdmans: Gene L. Green, Stephen T. Pardue, K.K. Yeo, editors (2016) The Spirit over the earth: pneumatology in the Majority World.

This important series seeks to gather well-regarded Christian thinkers from the majority world to discuss the significance of Christian teaching in their particular context. Have you read them? Three books have been published so far. You can find them by searching for ‘Majority world theology series’ on iDiscover. We have them all in our library.

Another of the books: Douglas Jacobs (2015) Global gospel : an introduction to Christianity on five continents Baker Academic has an excellent review from Todd E. Johnson, Fuller Theological Seminary:

“Writing with equal parts clarity and comprehensiveness, Jacobsen has created a text that introduces the histories of the Christian churches around the world. With its helpful graphics and lucid writing, this book is sure to become a standard textbook and reference work.” Todd E. Johnson, Fuller Theological Seminary

Ruth MacLean

Purchases

Douglas Jacobs (2015) Global gospel : an introduction to Christianity on five continents Baker Academic

Paul Grogan and Kirsteen Kim, editors (2015,6) The new evangelization : faith, people, context and practice T&T Clark

David Radford (2015) Religious identity and social change : explaining Christian conversion in a Muslim world Routledge

Robert J. Stevens and Brian Johnson, editors (2012) Profiles of African-American missionaries William Carey Library

Gene L. Green, Stephen T. Pardue, K.K. Yeo, editors (2016) The Spirit over the earth : pneumatology in the Majority World William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company

Paul H. De Neui, editor (2015) Becoming the people of God : creating Christ-centred communities in Buddhist Asia William Carey Library

Albert L. Park and David K. Yoo, editors (2014) Encountering modernity : Christianity in East Asia and Asian America University of Hawai’i Press

Marilyn Laura Bowman (2016) James Legge and the Chinese classics : a brilliant Scot in the turmoil of colonial Hong Kong FriesenPress

Anthony O’Mahony, Timothy Wright and Mohammad Ali Shomali, editors (2008) A Catholic-Shi’a dialogue : ethics in today’s society Melisende

Alphonsus D’Souza, O.L. Snaitang and Limatula Longkumer, editors (2014) Globalisation and response of the churches North Eastern Social Research Centre, Guwahati

Tony Ballantyne (2014) Entanglements of empire : missionaries, Maori, and the question of the body Duke University Press

Rev. Dr Ludwig Johann Schneller (2009) The life and work of Father Johann Ludwig Schneller : founding Father of the Syrian Orphanage, ‘Schneller Institute’, in 19th-century Jerusalem Melisende

Donations

Okot p’Bitek (1970?) African religions in Western scholarship East African Literature Bureau, Ex Libris Revd Roger Bowen, Chair of the Trustees, Henry Martyn Trust

William Vernon Brelsford (1956) The tribes of Northern Rhodesia The Government Printer, Lusaka, Ex Libris Revd Roger Bowen, Chair of the Trustees, Henry Martyn Trust

Eugene Hillman (1975) Polygamy reconsidered: African plural marriage and the Christian churches Orbis Books, Ex Libris Revd Roger Bowen, Chair of the Trustees, Henry Martyn Trust

W. Montgomery Watt (1980-82, 1961) Muhammad: prophet and statesman Oxford University Press, Ex Libris Revd Roger Bowen, Chair of the Trustees, Henry Martyn Trust

Lyndon P. Harries (1954) Islam in East Africa Universities’ Mission to Central Africa, Ex Libris Revd Roger Bowen, Chair of the Trustees, Henry Martyn Trust

Monica Wilson (1959,70) Communal rituals of the Nyakyusa Oxford University Press, Ex Libris Revd Roger Bowen, Chair of the Trustees, Henry Martyn Trust

Robert W. Strayer (1978) The making of mission communities in East Africa : Anglicans and Africans in colonial Kenya, 1875-1935 Heinemann, Ex Libris Revd Roger Bowen, Chair of the Trustees, Henry Martyn Trust

Carl-Erik Sahlberg (1986) From Krapf to Rugambwa : a church history of Tanzania Evangel Publishing House, Ex Libris Revd Roger Bowen, Chair of the Trustees, Henry Martyn Trust

Geoffrey Parrinder (1969,76) Africa’s three religions Sheldon Press, Ex Libris Revd Roger Bowen, Chair of the Trustees, Henry Martyn Trust

Joseph A. Namata (1986) Edmund John, man of God : a healing ministry Acorn Press, Ex Libris Revd Roger Bowen, Chair of the Trustees, Henry Martyn Trust

John L. Esposito (1988) Islam : the straight path Oxford University Press, Ex Libris Revd Roger Bowen, Chair of the Trustees, Henry Martyn Trust

A. Guillaume (1978) The life of Muhammad : a translation of Ibn Ishaq’s Sirat Rasul Allah Oxford University Press, Ex Libris Revd Roger Bowen, Chair of the Trustees, Henry Martyn Trust

Indries Shah (1968,74) The way of the Sufi Penguin Books, Ex Libris Revd Roger Bowen, Chair of the Trustees, Henry Martyn Trust

Sebastian Bakare (1993) My right to land in the Bible and in Zimbabwe : a theology of land for Zimbabwe Zimbabwe Council of Churches, Ex Libris Revd Roger Bowen, Chair of the Trustees, Henry Martyn Trust

Guy Clutton-Brock (1959) Dawn in Nyasaland Hodder and Stoughton, Ex Libris Revd Roger Bowen, Chair of the Trustees, Henry Martyn Trust

Geoffrey Parrinder (1958,63) Witchcraft : European and African Faber and Faber, Ex Libris Revd Roger Bowen, Chair of the Trustees, Henry Martyn Trust

David Harrison (1981,85) The white tribe of Africa : South Africa in perspective Ariel Books : British Broadcasting Corporation, Ex Libris Revd Roger Bowen, Chair of the Trustees, Henry Martyn Trust

Ida Glaser and Napolean John (1998) Partners or prisoners? : Christians thinking about women and Islam Solway, Ex Libris Revd Roger Bowen, Chair of the Trustees, Henry Martyn Trust

Fatima Mernissi (1991,92) Women and Islam : an historical and theological enquiry Blackwell, Ex Libris Revd Roger Bowen, Chair of the Trustees, Henry Martyn Trust

Francis A. Arinze (1970) Sacrifice in Ibo religion Ibadan University Press, Gift of Eva McKenzie. From the collection of Peter McKenzie, 1924-2011

Mark Hutchinson and Ogbu Kalu, editors (1998) A global faith : essays on Evangelicalism and globalization The Centre for the Study of Australian Christianity, Gift of Carrie Pemberton-Ford

Aylward Shorter (1975,77) African Christian theology : adaptation or incarnation? Geoffrey Chapman, Gift of the Venerable George Patrick (Paddy) Benson, archdeacon of Hereford

Byang H. Kato (1975) Theological pitfalls in Africa Evangel Publishing House, Gift of the Venerable George Patrick (Paddy) Benson, archdeacon of Hereford

Cecil Northcott and Joyce Reason (1953,64) Six missionaries in Africa Oxford University Press, Gift of the Venerable George Patrick (Paddy) Benson, archdeacon of Hereford

Madie Dewdney (1993) Never the last straw : memories of Orokolo Self-published. (CAMPRINT, Norfolk), anonymous gift

E.N. Wanyoike (1974) An African pastor : [the life and work of the Rev. Wanyoike Kamawe, 1888-1970 East African Publishing House, Gift of the Venerable George Patrick (Paddy) Benson, archdeacon of Hereford

William Sachs and Thomas Holland (2003) Restoring the ties that bind : the grassroots transformation of the Episcopal Church Church Publishing Incorporated, New York, Gift of the Divinity Library

George Hunter McNeur (2013) Liang A-Fa : China’s first preacher, 1789-1855 Pickwick Publications, anonymous gift

Christopher U.M. Ezekwugo (1987) Chi : the true god in Igbo religion Pontifical Institute of Philosophy and Theology, Kerala, Gift of Eva McKenzie. From the collection of Peter McKenzie, 1924-2011

Paul Barnes (2015) Taking hold of God : the story of a prayer movement Fellowship of Faith for the Muslims (FFM), Author’s gift

Grace Ji-Sun Kim (2015) Embracing the other : the transformative Spirit of love William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Gift of Terry Barringe

International Congress on World Evangelization (1989) The Manila manifesto : an elaboration of the Lausanne Covenant fifteen years later Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization, Gift of Carrie Pemberton-Ford

Josepha Jabo and Julia Kushemererwa (2012) Orombi : the biography of His Grace, the Most Rev. Henry Luke Orombi, Archbishop of the Church of Uganda (2004-2012) WASP Ltd, Kampala, Gift of Carrie Pemberton-Ford

Bishop Gideon Githiga (2001) The Church as the bulwark against authoritarianism : development of Church-State relations in Kenya, with particular reference to the years after political independence 1963-1992 Regnum International, Gift of the Venerable George Patrick (Paddy) Benson, archdeacon of Hereford

Emmanuel Katongole delivers the 2017 Henry Martyn Lectures in Cambridge

Professor Emmanuel Katongole’s three Henry Martyn Lectures took his audience on a geographic, historical, and theological tour of Christian responses to violence in sub-Saharan Africa.

Katongole teaches at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and Department of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. The title for his lectures was “Who Are My People? Christianity, Violence, and Belonging in Post-Colonial Africa.”

The first lecture established Katongole’s concern with the way in which Africans have been brought into western modernity in ways that inscribe violence, an argument he has made at greater length in his book The Sacrifice of Africa: A Political Theology for Africa. The need for Africans, he argued, is to find new ways of belonging that move beyond this violence. He studies this through a methodology he calls “portraiture”—pointing to individuals and ministries across the continent which are characterized by an “excess of love.”

The lectures focused on three forms of violence in Africa: ethnic, inter-religious, and ecological. In the first lecture, Katongole rooted ethnic violence in Rwanda and Burundi in the history of colonial relations and offered a portrait of Maggy Barankitse and her Maison Shalom in Burundi. In the second lecture, he pointed to the long history of violence in the Central African Republic and how it is only relatively recently that the violence has taken on inter-religious dimensions. He pointed to the ministry of Fr. Bernard Kinvi in welcoming people of multiple faiths to his mission in Bossemptele, CAR. The final lecture focused on de-forestation, land degradation, and other forms of ecological violence and used the example of Fr. Godfrey Nzamujo and his Songhai Centre in Benin to point to how the church can respond to such violence.

In his conclusion, Emmanuel Katongole argued that the crisis of modernity in Africa is one of belonging: Africans have been simultaneously invited into modernity and told that they don’t belong. The three portraits he offered were all attempts to reinvent Africa beyond this crisis of belonging. The individuals were the argument and the evidence for God’s excess of love in the world, a theopraxis to which are all invited to participate.

The lectures were held in the Divinity Faculty and well attended by people from across the university and beyond. Katongole’s next book, Born from Lament, will be published next month. The material in the lectures is the basis for a future book, with a title still to be determined.

The Henry Martyn Lectures are a biennial series hosted by the Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide and offer an opportunity for a leading scholar of world Christianity to speak to the university on ongoing research. Past lecturers have included Lamin Sanneh, Dana Robert, John Lonsdale, and Peter Phan.

The audio for all three of Katongole’s lectures is available online.

People from around the world regularly enrich our life at the Centre.

In any given week, month, or term, a number of visitors pass through the Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide. They enrich our life and give us new insight into the life of the church around the world. Here’s a highlight of some of our recent visitors.

In the autumn of 2016, Bishop Hilary Garang Deng of the Anglican Diocese of Malakal in South Sudan spent a term on sabbatical at our sister institution, Ridley Hall. Since 2014, violence in South Sudan has forced Hilary out of his home and away from his diocese. He spent much of his sabbatical in our library, learning more about the history of the church in South Sudan and the origins of current violence. CCCW Director Jesse Zink was particularly pleased to welcome Bishop Hilary to Cambridge as Jesse has visited him in Malakal while conducting his own research on the church in South Sudan. Bishop Hilary’s sabbatical time was arranged by former CCCW Director Graham Kings, who now directs the Mission Theology in the Anglican Communion Project.

In January 2017, we were pleased to welcome the Rev. Dr. Robert Heaney to the Centre for several weeks. Dr. Heaney is associate professor of Christian mission at Virginia Theological Seminary  in the United States and was on sabbatical. He used the library and archive to research a new project on postcolonial theology and the history of mission. He also offered a stimulating seminar in our regular series titled, “Renewing a Theology of Christian Mission: Critical and Constructive Migrations.”

In early February 2017, we welcomed the Rev. Dr. Charles Mugisha, director of Africa New Life Ministries, based in Kigali, Rwanda. He was especially interested in the large collection of material in the archive related to the East African Revival, which began in Gahini, Rwanda and spread from there.

In November 2016, Sudhakar and Santhi Mondithoka of the Hyderabad Institute for Theology and Apologetics in India spent a morning in the Centre. Santhi was pleased to find on our shelves the new Asia Bible Commentary, to which she contributed a commentary on the Book of Ruth. In addition to his other ministry obligations, Sudhakar is currently working on a doctorate on aspects of science and theology.

These and other visitors enrich the daily life of the Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide. Are you in Cambridge? Looking for a place to be based while on leave? We would love to hear from you.

Among the donations added to the library this month, two were given to us by doctoral student Johannes Zeiler of the Uppsala Universitet, Sweden. A former research associate of the Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide, Johannes Zeiler is currently doing significant scholarly research into conversations on theological education in two African theological journals and amongst Lutheran theological educators and church leaders in Tanzania.

Jason S. Sexton and Paul Weston (2016) The end of theology : shaping theology for the sake of mission Fortress Press, one of our purchases, is particularly important to us, having been edited by Paul Weston, who teaches mission studies at Ridley and in the Cambridge Federation, and is the Director of the Newbigin Centre for Gospel and Western Culture.

“The End of Theology generates a discussion of the nature of theology and how it is most meaningfully constructed to offer a truly interdisciplinary frame of reference on theology and mission. The volume highlights perspectives of contextual and systematic theology, as well as missiology, world Christianity and history, biblical studies and hermeneutics, ethnography, pastoral practice, and social justice. It also pays keen attention to matters on the ground with a profound desire to relate questions of evangelical identity – including ministry practice and mission – to the wider tradition” — back cover.

The book arose from discussions that took place at a conference in Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, July 3-5, 2014, organised by the Tyndale Fellowship Christian Doctrine study group, a consortium of scholars and practitioners, leading systematic theologians, and seasoned missiologists from different parts of the world.

Ruth MacLean

Purchases

Randall Balmer (2016) Evangelicalism in America Baylor University Press

John Pollock (2006) The Cambridge seven : the true story of ordinary men used in no ordinary way Christian Focus

R.S. Wafula, Esther Mombo, Joseph Wandera (2016) The postcolonial church : Bible, theology, and mission Borderless Press

C.I. David Joy (2015) Overlooked voices : a postcolonial Indian quest Borderless Press

Jason S. Sexton and Paul Weston (2016) The end of theology : shaping theology for the sake of mission Fortress Press

Donations

E.A. Adeboye (2016) Open heavens : a guide to a close fellowship with God Open Heavens Media Limited, Gift of Dr Babatunde Adedibu, former research associate of CCCW

Erik Egeland (2016) Christianity, generation and narrative : religious conversion and change in Sidama, Ethiopia, 1974-2012 Uppsala Universitet, Gift of Johannes Zeiler, Uppsala Universitet, former research associate of CCCW

Robert Odén (2016) For better for worse : the role of religion in development cooperation Swedish Mission Council, Gift of Johannes Zeiler, Uppsala Universitet, former research associate of CCCW

Dr. D.K. Olukoya (2012) Disgracing water spirits : deliverance manual for indigenes of riverine areas Mountain of Fire  and Miracles (MFM) Ministries, Gift of Jesse Zink

Ian Leakey (2014) Four worlds : India, Africa, England and Grace Self-published by author’s son, Mark Leakey, Gift of Mark Leakey, son of Ian Leakey.

Robert S. Heaney, Zeyneb Sayilgan, Claire Haymes, editors (2016) Faithful neighbors : Christian-Muslim vision & practice Morehouse Publishing, Gift of Robert S. Heaney, editor

Michael W. Goheen, editor (2016) Reading the Bible missionally (The Gospel and our culture series) William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Gift of Ian A. McFarland, Regius Professor of Divinity, Cambridge University

Paul Avis (2010) Reshaping ecumenical theology : the church made whole? T&T Clark, Gift of Westcott House, CTF

Gennadios Limouris, editor (1994) Orthodox visions of ecumenism : statements, messages and reports on the ecumenical movement, 1902-1992 WCC Publications, Gift of Westcott House, CTF

The Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide and the Journal of Ecclesiastical History announce a new World Christianities essay prize of £500, funded in part by a generous donation from the Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide.

The prize will be awarded each year to the author of an original research article on any subject relating to the history of Christianity outside Europe and North America since the year 700. Contributions are welcome from any historical subdiscipline and with any chronological or geographical focus within those parameters. Contributions will be assessed anonymously and are open to any author regardless of seniority or background. Entries from junior scholars are warmly encouraged.

The judges will be seeking to award the prize to an essay which displays rigorous and groundbreaking research, effectively communicated, and of significance to the wider discipline. The winning submission will be published as an article in the January 2018 number of the Journal, and the authors of other high-quality submissions may also be invited to publish in the Journal. The judges reserve the right not to make an award in the event that no submission meets the required standard.

Submissions should be prepared in accordance with the journal’s style guide and should not exceed 8,000 words, including notes.

The closing date for submissions is 31 March 2017, and the outcome of the competition will be announced in September 2017. Submissions should be sent as email attachments, with ‘World Christianities Prize’ in the subject line, to Mrs Mandy Barker.

Exemplary articles on World Christianities published in the journal to date are available to download.

Students immersed in cross-cultural Christian contexts tell of transformative experiences

 Over the summer, the Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide’s Intercultural Encounter programme funded more than a dozen students to spend a significant length of time in a Christian community in another culture. These students are now reporting back on their summer travels. Amy Ross, the Encounter coordinator, writes about these reports.

Photograph from Rachel Preston

I love my job because it is brimming over with hope, and stories of positive Christian engagement with a challenging world. Participants in the Encounter scheme are required to write a report about their placements and to take part in a debrief event. Emerging from this feedback are descriptions of very formative experiences, including some powerful stories of personal challenge and transformation. What a privilege it is to read reports telling of the joy of encountering the other in their context, of personal growth, of resource-sharing, of humility in action – all the things that challenge racism, fear and division. Examples from three of this year’s seventeen bursars are given here:

Iain Osborne, ordinand – West Bank/Palestine

“I was in Palestine and Israel from 10 July to 6 August, in a small town called Zababdeh, near Jenin in the north of the Occupied Territories.  One of my strongest impressions overall has been the contrast between what I expected, given the politics, and what I met.  I believe I have been permanently influenced by this experience in several ways. First, I have seen vividly illustrated the value of strong family and community ties.  Second, I believe that this visit has been the beginning of a relationship with that part of the world.  I have opted this year to study Hebrew through my course, and my wife and I are both learning Arabic.  Third, my understanding of the political situation has improved… I have returned asking myself, how can we be more Palestinian?”

Charlotte Kane, medical student – Malawi

“This summer I spent 8 weeks in Malawi. I experienced more wonderful things than I could have dared hoped, and can only pray that I remember the lessons that I learnt. This was my first time in a developing country. It is one thing to know that poverty exists, it is another to see it in real life. During the sermon one Sunday I was struck with a very clear thought that the Gospel is truly universal. I had known this as head knowledge before, but sitting there I suddenly realised that Jesus is not a white Westerner and it was as if it was the first time this thought had occurred to me. The Gospel is for all people, and does not belong or make sense in one culture more than another. All in all, I am still thinking through many of the lessons that I would like to remember from Malawi. What I can say is that it was an immensely rich experience.”

Danny Pegg, ordinand – South Dakota, United States

“I spent four and a half weeks on the Rosebud Reservation, in South Dakota in a town called Mission among the Sicangu Lakota people. My time on the Rosebud could be entitled ‘Mission 101’. I have not experienced such unbiased, unrelenting service of people in a church context before. I have not seen Christian encounter with a culture completely separate from [Christianity] before…. I have had so many experiences that I need to spend more time reflecting on but I do not doubt for one moment that this has been the single most formational experience of my entire life. No matter where I end up serving, and whether inter-cultural tensions or oppression (etc) are an issue in any way, I have learnt and experienced things that will benefit my ministerial ability there.”

In addition to placements in east, central and southern Africa, Encounter bursars went to countries in Latin America, the Middle East, North America, Europe, and to Russia.

Bursary recipients were thankful to CCCW for providing funding and intercultural support to make their placements possible. It is the hope of the Centre that bursars go on to embed within their lifestyles and relationships the respect and appreciation for different expressions of Christianity that they have encountered.

If you or someone you know could benefit from an Encounter scheme bursary please click here for more information or contact the Encounter Coordinator.

Prof. Emmanuel Katongole to deliver lectures in February 2017

The 2017 Henry Martyn lectures are to be given by a leading expert in political violence, reconciliation, and Christian community in Africa.

Emmanuel Katongole is a Roman Catholic priest and professor at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. He will deliver the Henry Martyn Lectures under the title, “Who are My People? Christianity, Community and Belonging in Post-colonial Africa.” The lectures take place over three consecutive nights, the 20^th, 21^st, and 22^nd of February 2017 in the Runcie Room of the Faculty of Divinity on West Road in Cambridge. Each lecture begins at 5.30 pm.

Katongole was born and educated in Uganda, where he was ordained a priest in 1987. Since then, he has served parishes in Uganda, Belgium, and the United States. His doctorate from the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium focused on religious ethics and the work of the American theologian Stanley Hauerwas.

Beginning in 2001, Katongole taught at Duke Divinity School in the United States where he became the founding director of the Centre for Reconciliation. Since 2013, he has taught at Notre Dame, where he teaches in both the theology department and the Institute for International Peace Studies.

Katongole has written extensively on African Christianity and the Christian social imagination. His books include Mirror to the Church: Resurrecting Faith after Genocide in Rwanda, Reconciling all Things: A Christian Vision for Justice, Peace, and Healing, and The Sacrifice of Africa: A Political Theology for Africa, all of which are available in the CCCW library.

The Henry Martyn Lectures are a biennial lecture series sponsored by the Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide and devoted to world Christianity and the global church. Past lecturers have included Peter Phan, Dana Robert, and John Lonsdale.

Members of the university and the public are warmly invited to attend the lectures.

More information about Emmanuel Katongole is available on his website.