{"title":"The Shift of the Centre of Gravity of the Church from the West to the Majority World: A Response","authors":"Lindsay Brown","doi":"10.1177/02653788221086218","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02653788221086218","url":null,"abstract":"This is a response to Hwa Yung's paper on the shift of the centre of the gravity of the church from the West into the Majority World. It reflects on the reasons why the church grew in the West, particularly in Europe, in the past and suggests what can be learned from the strengths of the Western church, as well as its weaknesses and failures. Three periods of Western church history are covered: The Early Church from AD 30 to AD 330, the sixteenth century European Reformation, and the modern missionary expansion in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and the subsequent decline of the Western church.","PeriodicalId":41530,"journal":{"name":"Transformation-An International Journal of Holistic Mission Studies","volume":"61 1","pages":"86 - 90"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76500653","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Shift of the Center of Gravity of the Church from the West to the Majority World","authors":"Hwa Yung","doi":"10.1177/02653788221082019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02653788221082019","url":null,"abstract":"Almost everywhere throughout the Majority World (MW), that is Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Christianity used to be called the ‘white-man's religion’. But that is the case no more—the church has exploded all over the MW. In this paper I would like to look at this shift in Christianity worldwide, and what implications it has for the global church, and especially for us in Asia. My purpose here is not to highlight the weaknesses of the Western church and to glorify the growth of the churches in the MW. Rather my hope is that this will help us have a clearer understanding of the challenges before us so that we can labor more fruitfully for the advance of the gospel in the Asian context. In the process I will also raise questions which hopefully will help point the way forward.","PeriodicalId":41530,"journal":{"name":"Transformation-An International Journal of Holistic Mission Studies","volume":"27 1","pages":"77 - 85"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78445340","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"JUST IMPATIENT PATIENTS?\u0000THE IMPACT OF HEALTHCARE PRIVATISATION AND COMMERCIALISATION ON THE ADOPTION OF DO-IT-YOURSELF ARTIFICIAL PANCREAS SYSTEMS BY PEOPLE WITH TYPE 1 DIABETES.","authors":"","doi":"10.47967/tor2022trans.vol7.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47967/tor2022trans.vol7.10","url":null,"abstract":"The last decade has witnessed the development of a novel diabetes technology: the Do-It-Yourself Artificial Pancreas System (DIYAPS). The novelty of the DIYAPS lies in an algorithm that automates insulin delivery to people with type 1 diabetes (PWT1D), thereby improving the health outcomes usually obtained by standard diabetes technologies. DIYAPS are freely available and developed by PWT1D as a response to the slow development of life-enhancing technology by commercial parties, under the motto #WeAreNotWaiting. In this paper, I explore how the DIYAPS movement can be seen as a reaction to the marketisation of health technology and, linked to that, privatisation in healthcare. I argue that members of the DIYAPS movement can be characterised as health-optimisers. They take responsibility for enhancing their own and their fellow PWT1D’s wellbeing, and demonstrate a desire for greater independence from medical professionals. At the same time, they actively resist participating in the commodification of health. They do not pay for the newest, most innovative health technology. Instead, they create it themselves. As such, the DIYAPS case draws attention to how, in response to marketisation and privatisation in healthcare, the self-reliant, responsible expert-patient may come to shape their patienthood by taking matters into their own hands.","PeriodicalId":41530,"journal":{"name":"Transformation-An International Journal of Holistic Mission Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48409674","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}