Journal of World Christianity, Vol 1, No 1 (2008)

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Rethinking the Social and Ethical Functions of a History of World Christianity

Ana Maria Bidegain

Abstract


How can we write a congruent history out of the evangelic message and an inclusive history of World Christianity with the tools and advances available to the discipline until now? A history willing to hear, listen, understand, and include the voices of Christians worldwide in all of their social, ethnic, and generational diversity. Voices yearning to retell their past; to understand it in an attempt to understand their present and transform their futures. A history that is no longer the imposed, absolute one passed on by those with the power to tell it; no longer one in which the voices of all others are alienated and subsumed by that single, dominant story. Is it even possible to imagine a history of Christianity that overcomes the mere social function affixed to the discipline by modernity?

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