The Five Distinctives of World Christianity: A Framework for Understanding a Global Faith

The Five Distinctives of World Christianity: A Framework for Understanding a Global Faith proposes a model for conceptualizing the processes and themes shared across World Christianity.The volume builds out of and honors the work of Carlos Cardoza-Orlandi who, through a career's worth of engagement with World Christianity, has identified the following distinctives as essential to the ways in which Christianity interacts with its cultural contexts: 1) cross-cultural diffusion, 2) translatability, 3) polycentricity, 4) indigenous expressions of the divine, and 5) biography.This volume draws together a range of World Christianity scholars in critical and collaborative discourse about these distinctives, built around their own research areas.It is a contribution to the study of World Christianity that distills its founding insights while pushing them, through the contributors' essays, toward deeper engagement. Though crucial for the way his students approach World Christianity, these theme