Introduction to World Christianity: Exploring the Mission of God and God's People
What in the world is God doing
today? The recent re-emergence of
Christianity as a truly global religion, the unprecedented shifts in the
heartlands of the gospel from the North Atlantic to the Global South, and the
reversal of traditional missions “from the West to the rest” call for a reinterpretation
of Christian history, theology, and mission.
This course explores aspects of world Christianity as the outworking of
the mission of God revealed in Scripture and accomplished by the Holy Spirit
through the mission of God’s people. We
will also examine the serial nature of Christian expansion and its theological
and missiological implications, with particular focus on the current status of
Christianity in various geographical regions today.