The future of Christianity. /

Edwards, David L. (David Lawrence), 1929--

The future of Christianity. / by David L. Edwards. - 1st American ed. - Wilton, CT : Morehouse-Barlow, [c1987] - 479 p.; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents: A young faith: What's past if prologue-- Hebrew beginnings-- Jesus and the gospels-- The first churches-- Developing churches-- A lust for definition One church's experience: Catholic and Protestant-- Orthodox and liberal-- The end of Englishness-- What is Anglicanism American futures: Across the Atlantic-- Liberation in Latin America-- People's churches in the USA-- Linking the futures of the Americas-- Religion in the Americas Rooted in Africa and India: A sacred world-- The planting of Christianity in Africa-- Towards an African Christianity-- The planting of Christianity in India-- Towards an Indian Christianity-- God in India Amid Asia's faiths: Christians in Asia-- Sharing the way of the Buddhists-- A more Christian Japan-- Sharing the house of Islam-- Christians and Jews-- Christ and the religions In secular Europe: The secularisation of Christendom-- The blunders of Europe's churches-- Communist pressures-- European futures-- Churches and alternatives-- Christianity and the new science-- Christianity and the new politics-- Christianity and the new morality-- Europe in the Christian world Christianity tomorrow: Lands of tomorrow-- Futures of peace-- The poor and the women-- The two types of faith-- The apostolic faith and its expressions-- The emerging Catholicism-- The evangelical future-- What is the ecumenical goal-- Communion in diversity Appendix: Anglican principles of unity

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