World Christianity
The church is now mostly non-Western, and that did not happen by accident. Four weeks on how the faith took root across Asia, Africa and Latin America, and what those churches are teaching the rest of us.
Syllabus
One week at a time. Tick a week when you have done the reading and answered the question in writing.
- Week 1
From mission field to world church
Reading: Acts 8, and the shift in Christian population since 1900
The centre of Christianity moved out of Europe within a single century. What does that do to the way you read church history?
- Week 2
The church in Asia
Reading: Korea, China and India: growth under pressure
In several Asian countries the church grew fastest where it had the least official favour. What does that suggest about how renewal actually starts?
- Week 3
The church in Africa and Latin America
Reading: Independent churches, Pentecostalism, and liberation theology
African and Latin American churches read the exodus and the exile as their own story. What does that reading see that European theology missed?
- Week 4
The congregation next door
Reading: Migration, and churches that now worship in two languages
The mission field may now be the church down the street from you. What would it take for the two to be one congregation?