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Editorial Reviews
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Starred Review. In his highly acclaimed The Next Christendom (2002), Jenkins boldly proclaimed that the center of Christianity was moving slowly out of Europe and North America to Latin America, Africa and Asia. By 2025, he points out, Africa and Latin America will compete over which area is most Christian. In this compelling sequel, Jenkins probes more deeply the differences between northern and southern Christianity, examining various elements that characterize Christian life, especially belief in the Bible. He argues that the mostly agrarian Christian communities in Latin America, Africa and Asia resemble early Christian communities, enabling southern-hemisphere Christians to read the Bible with fresh eyes. Such communities read the Bible communally rather than individually, and they read it less critically and more literally than their North American and European counterparts. Explosive debates over the ordination of women and homosexuals and the authority of the Bible in various global denominations—such as the Anglican Communion—illustrate not only the stark theological differences between North and South but also the sheer size of the southern communions influencing the debate. As part of a proposed trilogy (his book on Europe's coming religious struggle is scheduled for late 2007), Jenkins's prescient religious histories offer brilliant insights on the state of modern Christianity. (Sept.)
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The Africans and Asians who are the world's newest Christians understand the Bible differently than Europeans and North Americans do, Jenkins argues, although probably not much differently than the earliest Christians did. For this new audience, the Bible possesses enormous authority as a gateway to literacy and the political as well as spiritual power of literacy. It systematizes ideas about, as Jenkins' chapter titles denote, "Old and New," "Poor and Rich," "Good and Evil," "Persecution and Vindication," "Women and Men," and "North and South," and it relays usable stories and practical wisdom to help these new Christians cope with and master the challenges in their lives (they prefer the wisdom books Proverbs and the Epistle of James above all the others). Indeed, the Bible has for them the liberatory force it had for the peasants and outcasts who overwhelmed Rome with the first Christianity. Gracefully and cogently synthesizing mountains of research, Jenkins illuminates a crucial aspect of the burgeoning "Two-Thirds World" Christianity that he called attention to in The Next Christendom (2002). Ray Olson
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Starred Review. In his highly acclaimed The Next Christendom (2002), Jenkins boldly proclaimed that the center of Christianity was moving slowly out of Europe and North America to Latin America, Africa and Asia. By 2025, he points out, Africa and Latin America will compete over which area is most Christian. In this compelling sequel, Jenkins probes more deeply the differences between northern and southern Christianity, examining various elements that characterize Christian life, especially belief in the Bible. He argues that the mostly agrarian Christian communities in Latin America, Africa and Asia resemble early Christian communities, enabling southern-hemisphere Christians to read the Bible with fresh eyes. Such communities read the Bible communally rather than individually, and they read it less critically and more literally than their North American and European counterparts. Explosive debates over the ordination of women and homosexuals and the authority of the Bible in various global denominations—such as the Anglican Communion—illustrate not only the stark theological differences between North and South but also the sheer size of the southern communions influencing the debate. As part of a proposed trilogy (his book on Europe's coming religious struggle is scheduled for late 2007), Jenkins's prescient religious histories offer brilliant insights on the state of modern Christianity. (Sept.)
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From Booklist
The Africans and Asians who are the world's newest Christians understand the Bible differently than Europeans and North Americans do, Jenkins argues, although probably not much differently than the earliest Christians did. For this new audience, the Bible possesses enormous authority as a gateway to literacy and the political as well as spiritual power of literacy. It systematizes ideas about, as Jenkins' chapter titles denote, "Old and New," "Poor and Rich," "Good and Evil," "Persecution and Vindication," "Women and Men," and "North and South," and it relays usable stories and practical wisdom to help these new Christians cope with and master the challenges in their lives (they prefer the wisdom books Proverbs and the Epistle of James above all the others). Indeed, the Bible has for them the liberatory force it had for the peasants and outcasts who overwhelmed Rome with the first Christianity. Gracefully and cogently synthesizing mountains of research, Jenkins illuminates a crucial aspect of the burgeoning "Two-Thirds World" Christianity that he called attention to in The Next Christendom (2002). Ray Olson
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