The future of the global church : history, trends and possibilities

Patrick Johnstone
Colorado Springs, CO : Biblica
xiv, 240 p. ; 31 cm
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  • 1. Demography: nine global challenges
  • Population
  • Migration
  • Urbanization
  • Health and disease
  • Climate change
  • Economy
  • Energy resources
  • Politics and freedom
  • Water resources
  • 2. History: 20 centuries AD
  • 1st to 4th centuries
  • 5th to 10th centuries
  • 11th to 14th centuries
  • 15th and 16th centuries
  • 17th and 18th centuries
  • 19th century
  • 20th century
  • 3. Religion: the major streams
  • World religions
  • The non-religious
  • Islam
  • Hinduism
  • Buddhism
  • Ethnic and other religions
  • 4. Christianity: six megablocs
  • Global and continental spread
  • Freedom to minister
  • Global growth and decline
  • The Christian megablocs
  • Megabloc denominations
  • Overview and the future
  • 5. Christianity: renewal growth
  • The need for renewal
  • Charismatic / pentecostal growth
  • Renewal growth
  • Evangelical revivals and awakenings
  • 6. Christianity: the evangelical explosion
  • Who are evangelicals?
  • Global distribution
  • Africa's evangelicals
  • Asia's evangelicals
  • Europe's evangelicals
  • Latin America's evangelicals
  • N America's evangelicals
  • evangelicals of the Pacific
  • Evangelicals and the future
  • 7. The unevangelized
  • Measuring evangelization
  • The least evangelized
  • Peoples and languages
  • The 15 affinity blocs
  • Sub-Saharan African peoples
  • Arab world
  • East Asian peoples
  • Eurasian peoples
  • Horn of Africa peoples
  • Malay peoples
  • Persian-Median peoples
  • South Asian peoples
  • Southeast Asian peoples
  • Tibetan-Himalayan peoples
  • Turkic peoples
  • 8. Christian missions and the future
  • What is a missionary?
  • Sending missionaries
  • From everywhere : to everywhere
  • Mission agencies
  • 9. Conclusion: an evangelized world?
  • Finishing the task.
  • col. ill., col. maps
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 240)
  • Maps on end papers
  • Biblica
  • WEC International
  • 9781606571323
  • text
  • volume
  • unmediated
  • https://cms.trccloud.hk/opac/bib/AOht