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What is Happening to Global Christianity?
Author(s) -
Mortensen Viggo
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
dialog
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.114
H-Index - 5
eISSN - 1540-6385
pISSN - 0012-2033
DOI - 10.1111/j.0012-2033.2004.00184.x
Subject(s) - christianity , diversification (marketing strategy) , multiculturalism , religious studies , environmental ethics , sociology , political science , history , philosophy , theology , marketing , business
: Following Philip Jenkins's analysis of “the next Christendom” it is argued that when the centre of Christianity is moving southwards Christianity will change. As a translation movement, Christianity is a religion made to travel. The consequences of this development are dramatic. In the West and North the mainline churches are in decline. The diversification within Christianity will continue in a certain tension to a trend towards uniformity. This leads to new priorities in mission. The discipline, theology of religions, will gain in importance as the churches are confronted with the life and death choice between a “clash of civilisations” or a peaceful multicultural and multireligious co‐existence.