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Book SynopsisNamed one of the top religion books of 2002 by USA Today , Philip Jenkins'' phenomenally successful The Next Christendom permanently changed the way people think about the future of Christianity. In that volume, Jenkins called the world''s attention to the little noticed fact that Christianity''s center of gravity was moving inexorably southward, to the point that Africa may soon be home to the world''s largest Christian populations. Now, in this brilliant sequel, Jenkins takes a much closer look at Christianity in the global South, revealing what it is like, and what it means for the future. The faith of the South, Jenkins finds, is first and foremost a biblical faith. Indeed, in the global South, many Christians identify powerfully with the world portrayed in the New Testament--an agricultural world very much like their own, marked by famine and plague, poverty and exile, until very recently a society of peasants, farmers, and small craftsmen. In the global South, as in the biblical
Trade ReviewThis book by Jenkins... show[s] that Christians of the South are ripe for arriving at many new and vibrant readings of the Bible, * Howard Peskett, ANVIL *
Table of ContentsACKNOWLEDGMENTS ; PREFACE ; 1. Shall the Fundamentalists Win? ; 2. Power in the Book ; 3. Old and New ; 4. Poor and Rich ; 5. Good and Evil ; 6. Persecution and Vindication ; 7. Women and Men ; 8. North and South ; APPENDIX 1: PSALM 91 ; APPENDIX 2: THE EPISTLE OF JAMES ; ABBREVIATIONS ; NOTES ; SCRIPTURE INDEX ; INDEX
