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Article: Christ without culture.(The Public Square: A Continuing Survey of Religion, Culture, and Public Life)(cultural conformity of Christianity)
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- First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
- Article date:
- April 1, 2007
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To look at the big picture of the relationship between Christ and culture is, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, a dizzying experience. Our most immediate cultural world is chiefly Europe and the Americas. We do well to keep in mind, however, that the majority of Christians, and the most expansive growth of the Christian movement, is today in the Global South, led by Catholics and those who are described as evangelicals and Pentecostals, although many indigenous movements do not fit easily into our familiar categories. Only God knows what world Christianity will look like a hundred years from now, and that is perhaps just as well.
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