From Times Square to Timbuktu: The Post-Christian West Meets the Non-Western Church
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 twenty-first-century challenge, Granberg-Michaelson argues, is to build meaningful bridges between faithful churches in the global North and the spiritually exuberant churches of the global South.
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From Times Square to Timbuktu: The Post-Christian West Meets the Non-Western Church
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 twenty-first-century challenge, Granberg-Michaelson argues, is to build meaningful bridges between faithful churches in the global North and the spiritually exuberant churches of the global South.
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From Times Square to Timbuktu: The Post-Christian West Meets the Non-Western Church

From Times Square to Timbuktu: The Post-Christian West Meets the Non-Western Church

by Wesley Granberg-Michaelson
From Times Square to Timbuktu: The Post-Christian West Meets the Non-Western Church

From Times Square to Timbuktu: The Post-Christian West Meets the Non-Western Church

by 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 twenty-first-century challenge, Granberg-Michaelson argues, is to build meaningful bridges between faithful churches in the global North and the spiritually exuberant churches of the global South.
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Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781467438957
Publisher: Eerdmans, William B. Publishing Company
Publication date: 08/18/2013
Sold by: Bookwire
Format: eBook
Pages: 189
File size: 4 MB

About the Author

Wesley Granberg-Michaelson has served as General Secretaryof the Reformed Church in America since 1994. He was thefirst managing editor of Sojourners magazine andhas also worked with the World Council of Churches,Christian Churches Together in the USA, the GlobalChristian Forum, and Call to Renewal. His books includeLeadership from Inside Out: Spirituality andOrganizational Change.

Table of Contents

Foreword James H. Billington ix

Acknowledgments xi

Prologue xiii

1 The Pilgrimage of Christianity 1

2 How the World Is Changing Christianity 7

3 What Divides World Christianity 13

4 God's Heart for Unity 28

5 Roads Well Traveled 44

6 New Pathways 58

7 Signposts along the Way 70

8 Christians on the Move 79

9 Word Becoming Flesh, Congregationally 96

10 Under the Ecclesiological Radar 117

11 "In Each Place … and in All Places" 126

12 The Spirit and the World in the Twenty-first Century 137

Epilogue: The View from Ghana 153

Bibliography 162

Index 166

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