Understanding World Christianity Religion Cover by McDavid Henderson

Cover by McDavid Henderson

and draw us into the presence of the divine

such as Virgilio Elizondo

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Rahner famously observed that the Christians of the future will be mystics--or there will be no Christianity

Understanding World Christianity Religion Cover by McDavid HendersonRecent years have seen a paradigm shift in Christian self understanding. In place of the eurocentric model of "Christendom," a new understanding has emerged of Christianity as a "world" movement. At the cornerstone of this new perspective lies the work of a remarkable scholar, Andrew F. Walls, whose book, The Missionary Movement in Christian History (Orbis 1996) was named by Christianity Today as one of the hundred most influential books of the