This article presents a vision for a renewed approach to world Christian history through a new generation of World Christianity textbooks generated collaboratively through biography-writing workshops. Eight values or “keys” give impetus to this method. This ecumenical and missional approach re-members the global church through stories that reflect the fullness of its diversity; workshops draw on a global history framework; biography is a central narrative form; the stories and voices of women are recovered; workshops happen on a small scale, prioritize quality mentoring and academic support, are grounded in collaborative relationships, and produce accessible publications.
Lesslie Newbigin’s contribution to the area of spirituality has remained largely unexplored. It is within Newbigin’s most famous contribution, his missiology of Western culture, that his contribution to spirituality becomes apparent. He applied narrative theology to a central question of spirituality. How ought our life with God be formed, and how should that life be performed publicly in the world? This article explores Newbigin’s answer to both those questions by first situating Newbigin within the schools of narrative theology. Following that, a picture of his missional narrative spirituality is presented in three of his seminal works.
This paper explores the Presbyterian Church of Ghana's (PCG) navigation of prophetic and charismatic practices, examining the generational tensions between maintaining its Reformed heritage and embracing spiritual vitality in a Pentecostalized religious landscape. Drawing on qualitative interviews with twenty members across three generational cohorts-older (Men's and Women's Fellowships), middle (Young Adult Fellowship), and younger (Young People's Guild)-from urban and rural congregations, the study reveals a divide between older members who prioritize liturgical order and fear erosion of Presbyterian identity and younger members who view prophetic practices as enhancing spiritual engagement.
Suh Nam-Dong and the more well-known Choan-Seng Song are the doyens of Story Theology in Asia. The vision of his tory as a confluence of two traditions, the Korean and Christian minjung traditions, proclaimed by Suh and the use of story as an alternative access to hi story are the two foci of his methodological framework. This article is a close reading of Suh’s few contributions available in English and puts his approach into the broader context of Minjung Theology and his dialogue with C.S. Song. It ends with a glance at the reception of the storytelling method for the 21 st century by Asian feminist theologians Kwok Pui-Lan and Joo Mee Hur, who manage to overcome the gender bias of the first-generation male theologians.
