The Cross Cultural Process In Christian History

Download or read book The Cross-Cultural Process in Christian History written by Andrew F. Walls and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walls shows how the demographic transformation of the church has brought us to a new "Ephesian moment." The church is challenged as never before to become one global body with its many cultural and ethnic members contributing their gifts. Former patterns of domination need to be superseded. His seer's eyes probe beneath the surface to bring the readerinsights into Pentecostalism, African traditional religion, and the ironic ways in which the Western missionary movement often accomplished things--both for good and for ill--that its agents never dreamed of