{"product_id":"the-five-distinctives-of-world-ryan-t-ramsey-9781481321297","title":"The Five Distinctives of World Christianity: A Framework for Understanding a Global Faith","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Five Distinctives of World Christianity: A Framework for Understanding a Global Faith\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThough crucial for the way his students approach World Christianity, these themes are yet to receive collective attention in a single volume. The volume is designed for teaching, with ten essays from an array of scholars of World Christianity, focused around these five themes. Each theme contains one Latin American-focused essay paired with either an African- or Asian-focused essay tending to the same distinctive. Each distinctives' section also contains a brief introduction, highlighting the development of the distinctive within the discourse, and each section ends with select bibliographies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the spirit of Cardoza-Orlandi's character and scholarship, this volume's essays exemplify, evaluate, critique, and even imagine what these distinctives may be beyond the original formulation. Moreover, the volume is a collaboration between World Christianity's established and emerging scholars. In doing so, it hopes to embody the best of the existing discourse and tradition while looking toward its future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ryan T. Ramsey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1481321293\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781481321297\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Baylor University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/30\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 230\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Ryan T. Ramsey","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49148569485567,"sku":"9781481321297","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-five-distinctives-of-world-ryan-t-ramsey-9781481321297","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}