Christian Expansion in a Globalizing World

Speaker(s): Paul Freston
Date: May 30 - June 10, 2005
Length: 10:54:24
Product ID: RGDL3505S

Purchase Options:

MP3 Download - $59.99
MP3 CD - $79.99
CD - $104.99

Description

This course will examine how globalization of Christianity has taken place, and who the key actors have been. It will look at who the Christians are now, what their social composition is, where they are located and what sorts of Christianity they practice. Then questions will be asked about what these changes represent for Christianity today, especially in the areas of politics, missions and diasporas. Lectures include:

  • Thinking about Global Christianity in Light of the Bible and the Early Church
  • The Global Reality of Christianity Today
  • How Has the Globalization of Christianity Come About?
  • The Politics of Global Christianity (3 Lectures)
  • Global Flows of Christianity Today - Part 1: Missions From the Global South
  • Global Flows of Christianity Today - Part 2: "Southern" Christian Diasporas in Europe
  • Global Christianity: Some Theological and Pastoral Implications for the Worldwide Church

See All Audio by Paul Freston

Paul Freston is Professor of Religion and Culture at Wilfred Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada and CIGI Chair in Religion and Politics in Global Context at Balsillie School of International Affairs. He is Distinguished Senior Fellow and Director of the Program for Studies of Religion in Latin America for the Institute for Studies of Religion at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, USA, and Professor Colaborador in the Post-Graduate Programme in Sociology at the Federal University of Su00e3o Carlos in Brazil. He is author of several books, including Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in Latin America, Protestant Political Parties: A Global Survey, and Evangelicals and Politics in Asia, Africa and Latin America.

Related Audio

Details / Buy

One Priest For The Many: Theological themes of the Book of Hebrews

Speaker: Ross Hastings

Details / Buy

Unfathomable Grace in Ephesians

Speaker: Lynn Cohick

Details / Buy

Addictions and the Church

Speaker: John Auxier

Details / Buy

Christianity and the Political Economy of Capitalism

Speaker: Paul Williams

Details / Buy

Wisdom and Transformation

Speaker: Gordon Fee, James I. Packer

Details / Buy

Deuteronomy in Interpretation, Theology and Spirituality

Speaker: Gordon McConville

Details / Buy

The Agonies and Ecstasies: Ancient Christian Biographies

Speaker: John Toews

Details / Buy

The God & Father of Our Lord Jesus Christ

Speaker: Darrell Johnson

Details / Buy

Music & the Arts in Christian Worship

Speaker: John Witvliet