Die Afrikaanse Protestantse Akademie Biblioteek

Includes bibliographical references (pages 440-459).

Christianity and cultures. Culture and history ; The meeting of East and West ; Israel, the West and the world -- Israel amid the nations. The Hebrew mind and its genius ; Is the Old Testament primitive? ; Israel in the setting of the ancient Near East ; The creation story and the Babylonian myth ; The creation story (Genesis 1:1-2:4a) ; The paradise story and Babylonian mythology ; The biblical story of the flood and the Babylonian traditions concerning the deluge ; The tower of Babel and the mountain of the gods ; The temple at Jerusalem and the tower of Babel ; Kingship in Israel and in Babylon ; The Torah ; Zion and Babel -- Jews, Greeks and barbarians. Eschatology and history ; Paul's ministry to Greeks and barbarians ; Zion and Athens ; Christianity and the West -- The pattern of non-Western civilizations. The Eurasian oikoumenē ; The ontocratic pattern ; The ontocratic state ; Indian civilization ; Chinese civilization -- The West and its counterparts. Hellenes and barbarians ; Rome and Hellas ; Western and Eastern Christianity ; The reaction of the Oriental churches and the spread of Christianity in the east ; The challenge of Islam ; Europe, Occident, Orient ; The expansion of the West -- The revolutionary West. The Roman empire and the West ; Church and emperor in the fourth century ; Augustine's De civitate Dei ; Pope and emperor ; Feudalism ; Cities ; Renaissance ; Germany and the Reformation ; Western Europe and Calvinism ; Capitalism ; The English Revolution ; The Industrial Revolution ; The American Revolution ; The French Revolution ; The scientific and technological revolution ; Secularization ; The Communist revolution -- The Western impact and the 'awakening' of the non-Western world. The virus and the disease ; The growth of Indian nationalism and renascent Hinduism ; Chinese revolutions from the T'ai-p'ing rebellion to Communism ; The Muslim world under the Western impact ; A note on modern Japan -- Christianity in a planetary world. The end of an era ; the gospel in a planetary world ; 'Christianization' and secularization ; Favourite concepts tested ; Ecumenical theology of history ; Israel amid the nations.