The new shape of world Christianity : how American experience reflects global faith / Mark A. Noll.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Noll, Mark A., 1946-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Missions, American.

History.

Christianity.

Church history.

United States--Church history.

United States.

Developing countries--Church history.

Developing countries.

Christianity--United States--Influence.

Missions, American--Developing countries--History.

Physical Description:

212 pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Downers Grove, Ill. : IVP Academic, [2009]

Summary:

In this book Mark Noll revisits the history of the American church in the context of world events. He makes the case that how Americans have come to practice the Christian faith is just as globally important as what the American church has done in the world. He backs up this claim, lucidly explaining the relationship between the development of Christianity in North America and the development of Christianity in the rest of the world, with attention to recent transfigurations in world Christianity. -- from publisher description

Contents:

The new shape of world Christianity

Nineteenth-century evangelical identity, power and culture as anticipating the future

Posing the question

What does counting missionaries reveal?

Indictment and response

American experience as template

American evangelicals view the world, 1900-2000

What Korean believers can learn from American evangelical history

The East African revival

Reflections.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780830828470

0830828478

OCLC:

262430773

Publisher Number:

99938787552