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Ron Stansell (no login)
Posted Jan 26, 2004 10:45 AM
Have you seen Philip Jenkins' book entitled The Next Christendom from Oxford University Press? Or Andrew F. Walls book, The Missionary Movement in Christian History: Studies in the Transmission of Faith. I have found both of them immensely valuable, the first to shake the western world into the reality of the global non-Western Christian movement, and the latter to help us understand what the developing churches are experiencing theologically. Both have significant social implications, but they also both implicitly acknowledge the transformational power of belief and the work of the Holy Spirit in individuals and social units. They don't so much focus upon the pain and suffering of the world (as real and as important as that is), but I think acknowledge how much the hope of the gospel has power.
Walls book is from Orbis, dated 1996. He is Scottish and has published several books since this one.... |
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