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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...

percentage of Christians in North America, I always leave the USA with the troubling impression that apart from a new Great Awakening, Christianity in North America is in the throes of a precipitous decline. I see many signs of the erosion of authentic Christian life and vitality in the West. In Western Europe, where I also lived for three years, the situation is even more beleaguered.16 All of this inevitably has the effect of stimulating theological reflection about what it means to be a Christian
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