Facing West
American Evangelicals in an Age of World Christianity
In 1974 nearly 3,000 evangelicals from 150 nations met at the Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization. Amidst this cosmopolitan setting and in front of the most important white evangelical leaders of the United States members of the Latin American Theological Fraternity spoke out against the American Church. Fiery speeches by Ecuadorian René Padilla and Peruvian Samuel Escobar revealed a global weariness with what they described as an American style of coldly efficient mission wedded to a myopic, right-leaning politics. Their bold critiques electrified Christians from around the world.The dramatic growth of Christianity around the world i…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-025082-9
- EAN: 9780190250829
- Produktnummer: 33781730
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 320 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 16'762 KB
- Abbildungen: 25 black and white illustrations
Über den Autor
David R. Swartz is an associate professor of history at Asbury University. He is the author of Moral Minority: The Evangelical Left in an Age of Conservatism (2012).
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