Understanding World Christianity Religion and draw us into the

and draw us into the presence of the divine

American Chesterton Society

Writing as a Palestinian Christian who has lived most of his life in Israel-Palestine

such as Virgilio Elizondo

as well as using their Catholic Christian faith as a means of resisting the colonial project of the United States

Understanding World Christianity Religion and draw us into theRecent years have seen a paradigm shift in Christian self understanding. In place of the eurocentric model of "Christendom," a new understanding has emerged of Christianity as a "world" movement. At the cornerstone of this new perspective lies the work of a remarkable scholar, Andrew F. Walls, whose book, The Missionary Movement in Christian History (Orbis 1996) was named by Christianity Today as one of the hundred most influential books of the