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Article: Global gospel: Christianity is alive and well in the Southern Hemisphere.
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- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- July 17, 2002
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The world as most Christians in the South experience it strikingly resembles the world of the New Testament.
CHRISTIANS THROUGHOUT history may be justly accused of many failures, but it appears neglecting evangelism is not one of them. Observers of Christian growth have been suggesting over the last few decades that the faith is experiencing a significant migratory moment, not unlike the first explosive venture outside the tribe of the Jews into the unfamiliar world of the gentiles. That movement internationalized Christianity, then Hellenized it and eventually Europeanized it. The point historians of religion make is that Christian expansion was not just a ...