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previous chapter | German edition | next chapter | contents Akintunde E. Akinade is Professor of Theology at the Edmund E. Walsh School of Foreign Service, at Georgetown University Qatar. He researches African Christianity and the Christian-Islamic relationship in Africa. Thomas Bremer is Professor of Ecumenism, Eastern Church Studies and Peace Research at the Westfalian-Wilhelms-University in Münster. His research interests include the Orthodox churches of Eastern Europe. Heath Carter is Associate Professor at the Valparaiso University. His research concentrates…

previous chapter | German edition | next chapter | contents Andrew Chandler MAP 2 Europe in 1918. © PETER BALM, BERLIN/GERMANY. The Church must be forever building, for it is forever decaying within and attacked from without; For this is the law of life; and you must remember that while there is time of prosperity the people will neglect the Temple, and in time of adversity they will decry it.1 T. S. ELIOT (1934) 1918 and after The Landscapes of Christian Faith after the Great War Unless we are to maintain an unyielding view of the history of Christianity as a narrowly ecclesiast…

previous chapter | German edition | next chapter | contents Frieder Ludwig and Ulrike Schröder 1 Consolidation of International Exchange and Different Approaches to Other Religions: between Chicago 1893 and Edinburgh 1910 In the late 19th and early 20th century there was a notable consolidation of international events. In 1863, an international conference in Geneva led to the founding of the Red Cross. The International Congress of Women met for the first time in 1878 in Paris, and by 1921 had been followed by a further eight …