Comments on: The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity (Revised and Expanded Edition) http://www.thinkingchristian.net/2008/05/the-next-christendom/ Do Christians believe we hold the truth? No, the Truth holds us... Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:51:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Reading List - May 18th | Ancient Truth | Modern Sound http://www.thinkingchristian.net/2008/05/the-next-christendom/#comment-4597 Reading List - May 18th | Ancient Truth | Modern Sound Sun, 18 May 2008 18:25:14 +0000 http://www.thinkingchristian.net/2008/05/the-next-christendom-the-coming-of-global-christianity-revised-and-expanded-edition/#comment-4597 [...] this depressing view of Europe read this review of a book on “The Next Christendom”.  http://www.thinkingchristian.net/2008/05/the-next-christendom/  I was in Hungary this week (see my next post) and was reminded on the the ancientness of our [...] [...] this depressing view of Europe read this review of a book on “The Next Christendom”.  http://www.thinkingchristian.net/2008/05/the-next-christendom/  I was in Hungary this week (see my next post) and was reminded on the the ancientness of our [...]

]]> By: A Conservative Christian Environmental Blog - 'Cause the World's Not Ours to Mess Up [Ps 24:1] http://www.thinkingchristian.net/2008/05/the-next-christendom/#comment-4017 A Conservative Christian Environmental Blog - 'Cause the World's Not Ours to Mess Up [Ps 24:1] Wed, 14 May 2008 14:56:07 +0000 http://www.thinkingchristian.net/2008/05/the-next-christendom-the-coming-of-global-christianity-revised-and-expanded-edition/#comment-4017 [...] has a book review on the “astonishing progress of global Christianity.” Check out The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity (Revised and Expanded Edition) at Thinking Christian. Ken Brown reviews the film Atonement (On Sin and Atonement) posted at [...] [...] has a book review on the “astonishing progress of global Christianity.” Check out The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity (Revised and Expanded Edition) at Thinking Christian. Ken Brown reviews the film Atonement (On Sin and Atonement) posted at [...]

]]> By: Charlie http://www.thinkingchristian.net/2008/05/the-next-christendom/#comment-3973 Charlie Wed, 14 May 2008 08:00:17 +0000 http://www.thinkingchristian.net/2008/05/the-next-christendom-the-coming-of-global-christianity-revised-and-expanded-edition/#comment-3973 [edit: upon re-reading the post I think this may not actually be an answer to the intended question... nonetheless, I've already typed it.] Moreland has talked about this explosion and attributes it to : <blockquote>A major factor in the current revival in the Third World - by some estimates, up to 70 percent of it - is intimately connected to signs and wonders as expressions fo the love of the Christian Father-God, the lordship of his Son, and the power of his Spirit and his Kingdom. A manifestation of the supernatural power of God through healings, demonic deliverances, and the prophetic are central to what is going on today. Jenkins goes so far as to say that for Third World Christians and the explosive growth of the church in their communities, the heart of the matter is "the critical idea that God intervenes daily in everyday life," an intervention that is an expression of the power of God's Kingdom.</blockquote> He notes that the underground church in China has 100 million believers, as opposed to the 70 million members of the Communist Party. <blockquote>"We are currently living through one of the transforming movements in the history of religion worldwide" The church is exploding in unprecedented rates in the so-called Third World. ... Christianity is a social revolution of staggering proportions.</blockquote> <i>Kingdom Triangle</i>, pages 166, 168 [edit: upon re-reading the post I think this may not actually be an answer to the intended question... nonetheless, I've already typed it.]
Moreland has talked about this explosion and attributes it to :

A major factor in the current revival in the Third World - by some estimates, up to 70 percent of it - is intimately connected to signs and wonders as expressions fo the love of the Christian Father-God, the lordship of his Son, and the power of his Spirit and his Kingdom. A manifestation of the supernatural power of God through healings, demonic deliverances, and the prophetic are central to what is going on today. Jenkins goes so far as to say that for Third World Christians and the explosive growth of the church in their communities, the heart of the matter is “the critical idea that God intervenes daily in everyday life,” an intervention that is an expression of the power of God’s Kingdom.

He notes that the underground church in China has 100 million believers, as opposed to the 70 million members of the Communist Party.

“We are currently living through one of the transforming movements in the history of religion worldwide” The church is exploding in unprecedented rates in the so-called Third World.
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Christianity is a social revolution of staggering proportions.

Kingdom Triangle, pages 166, 168

]]> By: Tom Gilson http://www.thinkingchristian.net/2008/05/the-next-christendom/#comment-3938 Tom Gilson Wed, 14 May 2008 00:55:40 +0000 http://www.thinkingchristian.net/2008/05/the-next-christendom-the-coming-of-global-christianity-revised-and-expanded-edition/#comment-3938 Good question. It was a borrowed book, and I don't have it available now, or else I would look through it for more of an answer. He explained it in terms of the strength of conservative theology. There were a large number of other particular explanations, but that was the overriding one. I wouldn't want to overstate even that, though. He did more describing than explaining. Good question.

It was a borrowed book, and I don’t have it available now, or else I would look through it for more of an answer.

He explained it in terms of the strength of conservative theology. There were a large number of other particular explanations, but that was the overriding one. I wouldn’t want to overstate even that, though. He did more describing than explaining.

]]> By: Process http://www.thinkingchristian.net/2008/05/the-next-christendom/#comment-3870 Process Tue, 13 May 2008 10:45:11 +0000 http://www.thinkingchristian.net/2008/05/the-next-christendom-the-coming-of-global-christianity-revised-and-expanded-edition/#comment-3870 What does Jenkins say about why this is happening? What does Jenkins say about why this is happening?

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