TY - BOOK AU - Edwards,David L.(David Lawrence),1929-- TI - The future of Christianity. SN - 0819214213 AV - BR 121.2 .E39 PY - 1987///] CY - Wilton, CT PB - Morehouse-Barlow KW - Christianity KW - 20th century N1 - 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 ER -