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Evangelical Christian Baptists of Georgia: The History and Transformation of a Free Church Tradition (Studies In World Christianity)
Malkhaz Songulashvili
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Hardcover. Num Pages: 521 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUG; HRCC2; HRCC8; HRCC92; HRCX4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 236 x 42. Weight in Grams: 880.
Malkhaz Songulashvili, former Archbishop of the Evangelical Baptist Church of Georgia (EBCG), provides a pioneering, exacting, and sweeping history of Georgian Baptists. Utilizing archival sources in Georgian, Russian, German, and English - translating many of these crucial documents for the first time into English - he recounts the history of the EBCG from its formation in 1867 to the present.
While the particular story of Georgian Baptists merits telling in its own right, and not simply as a feature of Russian religious life, Songulashvili employs Georgian Baptists as a sustained case study on the convergence of religion and culture. The interaction of Eastern Orthodox, Western Protestant, and Russian dissenting religious traditions - mixed into the political cauldron of Russian occupation of a formerly distinct eastern European culture - led to a remarkable experiment in Christian free-church identity. Evangelical Christian Baptists of Georgia allows readers to peer through the lens of intercultural studies to see the powerful relationships among politics, religion, and culture in the formation of Georgian Baptists, and their blending of Orthodox tradition into Baptist life to craft a unique ecclesiology, liturgy, and aesthetics.
While the particular story of Georgian Baptists merits telling in its own right, and not simply as a feature of Russian religious life, Songulashvili employs Georgian Baptists as a sustained case study on the convergence of religion and culture. The interaction of Eastern Orthodox, Western Protestant, and Russian dissenting religious traditions - mixed into the political cauldron of Russian occupation of a formerly distinct eastern European culture - led to a remarkable experiment in Christian free-church identity. Evangelical Christian Baptists of Georgia allows readers to peer through the lens of intercultural studies to see the powerful relationships among politics, religion, and culture in the formation of Georgian Baptists, and their blending of Orthodox tradition into Baptist life to craft a unique ecclesiology, liturgy, and aesthetics.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Baylor University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
536
Place of Publication
Waco, United States
ISBN
9781481301107
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V9781481301107
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Reviews for Evangelical Christian Baptists of Georgia: The History and Transformation of a Free Church Tradition (Studies In World Christianity)
This is by far the finest book on the evangelical movement in the former Soviet Union that I have ever read... In this formidable work, Songulashvili offers the most comprehensive study of the evangelical movement in Georgia yet to have appeared in the English language.
Joshua T. Searle
Studies in World Christianity This book is essential reading for Western Christians.
Stephen Platten
Church Times A significant addition to the field of Eastern European evangelical research.
Toivo Pilli
Baptistic Theologies More than an ethnographic or even a historical report, Songulashvili's vivid historical narrative highlights the centrality of God's mission in an indigenous culture, demonstrating how the triangle of church, mission, and culture have interacted to energize non-Western missionaries to 'go and make disciples of all nations.'
Ashti Mamash
Fides Et Historia Malkhaz Songulashvili's study of Georgian Evangelical Christian Baptists history and analysis of their attempts to change their mission paradigm, accommodating it more deeply to local Georgian culture, is a timely and helpful addition to the field. This pioneering analysis will no doubt be referred to for many years to come whether future authors agree or disagree with Songulashvili.
Toivo Pilli
Journal of Ecclesiastical History This remarkable history of Baptist witness in the Republic of Georgia is a superb work of scholarship that utilises key primary sources in Georgian, Russian, German and English in telling the story of the Evangelical Baptist Church of Georgia from the beginning of its witness in 1867 to the present day.
Brian Talbot
Baptist Union of Scotland Songulashvili's book - with copious notes and appendices of documents - will be of interest to those studying Baptist history, the history of Georgia, religious communities in the region and the troubled independence period.
Felix Corley
SLAVONIC & EAST EUROPEAN REVIEW
Joshua T. Searle
Studies in World Christianity This book is essential reading for Western Christians.
Stephen Platten
Church Times A significant addition to the field of Eastern European evangelical research.
Toivo Pilli
Baptistic Theologies More than an ethnographic or even a historical report, Songulashvili's vivid historical narrative highlights the centrality of God's mission in an indigenous culture, demonstrating how the triangle of church, mission, and culture have interacted to energize non-Western missionaries to 'go and make disciples of all nations.'
Ashti Mamash
Fides Et Historia Malkhaz Songulashvili's study of Georgian Evangelical Christian Baptists history and analysis of their attempts to change their mission paradigm, accommodating it more deeply to local Georgian culture, is a timely and helpful addition to the field. This pioneering analysis will no doubt be referred to for many years to come whether future authors agree or disagree with Songulashvili.
Toivo Pilli
Journal of Ecclesiastical History This remarkable history of Baptist witness in the Republic of Georgia is a superb work of scholarship that utilises key primary sources in Georgian, Russian, German and English in telling the story of the Evangelical Baptist Church of Georgia from the beginning of its witness in 1867 to the present day.
Brian Talbot
Baptist Union of Scotland Songulashvili's book - with copious notes and appendices of documents - will be of interest to those studying Baptist history, the history of Georgia, religious communities in the region and the troubled independence period.
Felix Corley
SLAVONIC & EAST EUROPEAN REVIEW