From Times Square to Timbuktu: The Post-Christian West Meets the Non-Western Church

In the last century, amazingly, world Christianity's center of gravity has effectively moved from Europe to a point near Timbuktu in Africa. Never in the history of Christianity has there been such a rapid and dramatic shift in where Christians are located in the world.

Wesley Granberg-Michaelson explores the consequences of this shift for congregations in North America, specifically for the efforts to build Christian unity in the face of new and challenging divisions. Centers of religious power, money, and theological capital remain entrenched in the global, secularized North while the Christian majority thrives and rapidly grows in the global South. World Christianity's most decisive twenty-first-century challenge, Granberg-Michaelson argues, is to build meaningful bridges between faithful churches in the global North and the spiritually exuberant churches of the global South.

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Author: Wesley Granberg-Michaelson
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Published: 08/18/2013
Pages: 189
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 8.97h x 6.09w x 0.51d
ISBN: 9780802869685

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/22/2013
Choice 02/01/2014
Christian Century 10/15/2014 pg. 24

About the Author
Granberg-Michaelson, Wesley: - Wesley Granberg-Michaelson has served as General Secretaryof the Reformed Church in America since 1994. He was thefirst managing editor of Sojourners magazine andhas also worked with the World Council of Churches, Christian Churches Together in the USA, the GlobalChristian Forum, and Call to Renewal. His books includeLeadership from Inside Out: Spirituality andOrganizational Change.

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