The next Christendom: the coming of global christianity
Editorial OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Espanya peninsular
- Editorial OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
- ISBN13 9780195168914
- ISBN10 0195168917
- Tipus LLIBRE
- Pàgines 270
- Any Edició 2004
- Encuadernació Rústica
Matèries
Teologia / EspiritualitatThe next Christendom: the coming of global christianity
Editorial OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Espanya peninsular
Detalls del llibre
"In looking back over the enormous changes wrought by the twentieth century, Western observers may have missed the most dramatic revolution of all. While secular movements like communism, feminism, and environmentalism have gotten the lion's share of our attention, the explosive southward expansion of Christianity in Africa, Asia, and Latin America has barely registered on Western consciousness. Nor has the globalization of Christianity - and the enormous religious, political, and social consequences it portends - been properly understood." Philip Jenkins' The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity is the first book to take the full measure of the changing face of the Christian faith. Jenkins asserts that by the year 2050 only one Christian in five will be a non-Latino white person and that the center of gravity of the Christian world will have shifted firmly to the Southern Hemisphere.