From Times Square to Timbuktu: The Post-christian West Meets the Non-western Church

Name: From Times Square to Timbuktu: The Post-christian West Meets the Non-western Church
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ISBN: 9780802869685

ISBN-10: 0802869688

ISBN-13: 9780802869685

Edition: 2013

Authors: Wesley Granberg-Michaelson

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In the last century, amazingly, world Christianity's center of gravity has effectively moved from Europe to a point near Timbuktu in Africa. Never in the history of Christianity has there been such a rapid and dramatic shift in where Christians are located in the world.Wesley Granberg-Michaelson explores the consequences of this shift for congregations in North America, specifically for the efforts to build Christian unity in the face of new and challenging divisions. Centers of religious power, money, and theological capital remain entrenched in the global, secularized North while the Christian majority thrives and rapidly grows in the global South. World Christianity's most decisive…

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List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Eerdmans Pub Co
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.65" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



Foreword



Acknowledgments


Prologue



The Pilgrimage of Christianity



How the World Is Changing Christianity



What Divides World Christianity



God's Heart for Unity



Roads Well Traveled



New Pathways



Signposts along the Way



Christians on the Move



Word Becoming Flesh, Congregationally



Under the Ecclesiological Radar



"In Each Place … and in All Places"



The Spirit and the World in the Twenty-first Century


Epilogue: The View from Ghana


Bibliography


Index