2010 Christianity Today Book Award winner! With characteristic rigor and insight; in this book Mark Noll revisits the history of the American church in the context of world events. He makes the compelling case that how Americans have come to practice the Christian faith is just as globally important as what the American church has done in the world. Noll backs up this substantial claim with the scholarly attentiveness we've come to expect from him; lucidly explaining the relationship between the development of Christianity in North America and the development of Christianity in the rest of the world; with attention to recent transfigurations in world Christianity. Here is a book that will challenge your assumptions about the nature of the relationship between the American church and the global church in the past and predict what world Christianity may look like.
#805181 in Books Lee Hak Joon 2011-12-01Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 8.94 x .64 x 6.02l; .91 #File Name: 0829818219242 pagesThe Great World House Martin Luther King JR and Global Ethics
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. This new world in our new age will either become "The House Divided and Doomed" or "The Great World HouseBy S. LeeDr. Hak Joon Lee; Lewis B. Smedes Professor of Christian Ethics at Fuller Theological Seminary; carves a new path towards global ethics in light of a magnanimous man's life and works: Martin Luther King; Jr. A little over 36 years later; much has changed since King's assassination. There are new enemies but similar structures at play. King's 'Evil Triad' of racism; economic exploitation (inequality); and militarism are as rampant as ever. "The new world is a world of geographical togetherness. This means that no individual or nation can live alone. We must all learn to live together; or we will be forced to die together" (King; "Facing the Challenge of a New Age"). This new world in our new age will either become "The House Divided and Doomed" or "The Great World House."This text is a fresh recontextualization of Kingian ethics for today's increasingly globalizing world. It has the three 'at-odds' elements of a great book: comprehensive; practical; and simple.cf. sooholee.wordpress
