Revival, Caribbean Style: the Case of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Grenada, 1983–2004
In 1993, commenting on the changing proportion of Christians in the major regions of the world, John V. Taylor (1914-2001), a past General Secretary of the Church Missionary Society (1963-74) and later Anglican bishop of Winchester (1975-85), wrote: The most striking fact to emerge … is the speed wi...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2008
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Studies in church history
Year: 2008, Volume: 44, Pages: 388-401 |
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| Summary: | In 1993, commenting on the changing proportion of Christians in the major regions of the world, John V. Taylor (1914-2001), a past General Secretary of the Church Missionary Society (1963-74) and later Anglican bishop of Winchester (1975-85), wrote: The most striking fact to emerge … is the speed with which the number of Christian adherents in Latin America, Africa, and Asia has overtaken that of Europe, North America, and the former USSR. For the first time since the seventh century, when there were large Nestorian and Syrian churches in parts of Asia, the majority of Christians in the world are not of European origin Moreover, this swing to the ‘South’ has, it would seem, only just got going, since the birth rate in those regions is at present so much higher than in the developed ‘North’, and lapses from religion are almost negligible compared with Europe. By the middle of the next century, therefore, Christianity as a world religion will patently have its centre of gravity in the Equatorial and Southern latitudes, and every major denomination, except possibly the Orthodox Church, will be bound to regard those areas as its heartlands, and embody that fact in its administration. |
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| ISSN: | 2059-0644 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Studies in church history
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0424208400003739 |
