Methodological Considerations: Convergences

Abstract

Nemere Kerezsi’s artwork In the apiary depicted on the cover of this book encapsulates several of the features that we as editors consider distinctive for a World Christianity approach. It epitomizes simultaneity of difference and balances uniqueness and connectedness in such a way that each geometric form is both distinct and complete, and a constitutive part of a larger entity. The fluid transitions between the forms project togetherness and oneness, yet there is no apparent center. To us, In the apiary represents a conceptual design that visualizes some of the fundamental theoretical ideas of a World Christianity approach. This World Christianity approach is still very much ‘in the making’. Frederiks in this volume tentatively sketches some of the contours of such an approach from a religious studies perspective, stating that it