{"id":7109,"date":"2015-08-12T08:43:24","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T12:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/?p=7109"},"modified":"2015-08-12T08:54:14","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T12:54:14","slug":"translating-christianity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/2015\/08\/12\/translating-christianity\/","title":{"rendered":"Translating Christianity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/cgcm\/files\/2015\/08\/image003.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/cgcm\/files\/2015\/08\/image003.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/cgcm\/files\/2015\/08\/image003.jpg\" alt=\"image003\" width=\"672\" height=\"169\" class=\" size-full wp-image-7113 aligncenter\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/files\/2015\/08\/image003.jpg 672w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/files\/2015\/08\/image003-650x163.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 672px) 100vw, 672px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.history.ac.uk\/ehsoc\/event\/ehs-theme-2015-16-translating-christianity\" target=\"_blank\">The 54th Summer Conference of the Ecclesiastical History Society<\/a>\u00a0was held at the University of York in England from July 28-30, 2015. Exploring\u00a0the theme of \u201cTranslating Christianity,\u201d the conference focused on cultural, linguistic, and ritual translation of the Christian faith into different global contexts over the past two millennia. To illustrate the conference theme, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.history.ac.uk\/ehsoc\/content\/virtual-exhibition-translating-christianity\" target=\"_blank\">a virtual exhibition<\/a> was put together in collaboration with the Minster Library and the Institute for Public Understanding of the Past, University of York.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/cgcm\/files\/2015\/08\/image005.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/cgcm\/files\/2015\/08\/image005.jpg\" alt=\"image005\" width=\"641\" height=\"237\" class=\" size-full wp-image-7114 aligncenter\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In order to make sense of how\u00a0Christianity has become\u00a0a world faith as it has crossing geographic, cultural, and social boundaries, many of the papers built on the\u00a0translatability principle of the Christian message proposed <a href=\"\/cgcm\/files\/2015\/08\/IMG_7641.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/cgcm\/files\/2015\/08\/IMG_7641-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_7641\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\" size-thumbnail wp-image-7115 alignright\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/files\/2015\/08\/IMG_7641-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/files\/2015\/08\/IMG_7641-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>by Lamin Sanneh and Andrew Walls. The creative and complex interplay between the universal Christian <a href=\"\/cgcm\/files\/2015\/08\/IMG_7641.jpg\"><\/a>message and particular local settings was carefully examined through various case studies in Greek, Latin, Asian, American, and African contexts. CGCM student Daewon Moon presented his paper, \u201cThe East African Revival: Transplantation or Indigenization of European Christianity?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 54th Summer Conference of the Ecclesiastical History Society\u00a0was held at the University of York in England from July 28-30, 2015. Exploring\u00a0the theme of \u201cTranslating Christianity,\u201d the conference focused on cultural, linguistic, and ritual translation of the Christian faith into different global contexts over the past two millennia. To illustrate the conference theme, a virtual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3242,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1994,2015,1997,2018,2086],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7109"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3242"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7109"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7116,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7109\/revisions\/7116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}