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World Christianity: A Historical and Theological Introduction is unavailable, but you can change that!

Christianity is vibrant and growing in the non-western “majority” world and Christianity is changing as a result. Pachuau surveys the current trending approaches to recognizing and investigating “world Christianity” and explores the salient features of the demographic changes that mark a measurable shift in the center of gravity from the northwest part of the globe to the southern continents....

First, at the conceptual level, the “world” indicates that the Christian message of the gospel is meant for, or directed to, the world. It belongs to every part, every people, and every creature of the world. Christianity is about God’s work in and for the world in Christ; it belongs to the world, and to every cultural group of the world. At the heart of the Christian message is its universal invitation and applicability contained in the very pronouncement of the meaning of Jesus at his birth, “good