How Christianity Became a World Religion

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Christian Mission: How Christianity Became a World Religion written by Dana Roberts is a book that primarily focuses on the growth of Christianity among the word and the lives of several Christian missionaries who have taken part in the transformation of Christianity into becoming the world’s largest religion. Although there is a vast amount of information on the topic of missions and world Christianity, Robert places together a well written book that is easily comprehensible with the emphasis strictly on the spreading of the religion. Dana Roberts is a professor at Boston University School of Theology and is one of the world’s foremost authorities on missionary history, which is displayed clearly in her writing of Christian Mission. Aside from that she also co-directs the Centre for Global Christianity and Mission. Dana Robert has a vast awareness of African issues, which allows her to focus a majority of her discussion on Africa, where she has considerable expertise. Her research output is considerable and she has emerged as one of the leading authorities on Christianity’s recent southern shift. Roberts wrote the book in order to communicate conflicting scholarly interpretations of Christian missionaries, and in hopes of showing people what made, and makes Christianity attractive to people of various cultures. Roberts understands the globalization of Christianity, how it has morphed, migrated, and entangled itself into new societies. She is a historian of Christianity with a emphasis and heart for missions. It is obvious that Roberts has a passionate heart towards the work of missions, as well as Christianity as a world religion, and she reveals that to her audience through the book, “ The story of Christianity around the world is not that of a simple, linear progression. To become a world religion, Christianity first had to succeed on the local level. Specific

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