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A Multitude of All Peoples: Engaging Ancient Christianity’s Global Identity is unavailable, but you can change that!

Christianity is not becoming a global religion. It has always been a global religion. The early Christian movement spread from Jerusalem in every direction, taking on local cultural expression all around the ancient world. So why do so many people see Christianity as a primarily Western, white religion? In A Multitude of All Peoples, Vince Bantu surveys the geographic range of the early church’s...

Such laudable efforts at contextualization, however, do not represent the majority of communities of color. Movements for contextualization or enculturation among Christians of color have been met with resistance not only by white Christians but by other Christians of color! Contemporary movements advocating for “counter contextualization” are often motivated by the fear of the loss of political influence and frequently attract many Christian leaders of color equally committed to a vision of Christianity
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