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Theology in the Context of World Christianity: How the Global Church Is Influencing the Way We Think about and Discuss Theology is unavailable, but you can change that!

It’s no secret that the center of Christianity has shifted from the West to the global South and East. While the truths of the Christian faith are universal, new contexts bring new questions, new understandings, and new expressions. What does this mean for theology? Is the Christian faith not only culturally translatable, but also theologically translatable? Timothy Tennent answers this question...

While it would be a mistake to underestimate the corrosive influence Western liberal theology has had in the Majority World church and in some of the well-established seminaries, many hopeful, promising trends abound. There are five broad trends in the lives and witness of the Christians in these newly emerging churches that I find encouraging. First, these believers accept the authority of Scripture and hold a theology that, by Western standards,
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