Textbook
Christian Mission: How Christianity Became a World ReligionISBN: 978-0-631-23620-7
Paperback
232 pages
March 2009, ©2008, Wiley-Blackwell
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Exploring how Christianity became a world religion, this brief
history examines Christian missions and their relationship to the
current globalization of Christianity.
- A short and enlightening history of Christian missions: a phenomenon that many say reflects the single most important intercultural movement over a sustained period of human history
- Offers a thematic overview that takes into account the political, cultural, social, and theological issues
- Discusses the significance of missions to the globalization of Christianity, and broadens our understanding of Christianity as a multicultural world religion
- Helps Western audiences understand the meaning of mission as a historical process
- Contains several new maps that illustrate demographic shifts in world Christianity