This short book aims to interpret key moments in the cultural history of Christianity as they illustrate the underlying dynamic of faith in new cultural contexts. Based on lectures originally delivered by Andrew Walls in 1996, in many ways he saw this work as a synthesis of his essential insights on Christian mission and conversion: "a serial process in which Christianity has encountered successive cultures and found expression within them, often withering in the areas of its apparently greater strength and finding new homes in quite different soil." This justified, for Walls, "a retelling of the story in terms of Christian interaction with successive cultures, picking up a hint in the Epistle to the Ephesians, that all are necessary to the full-grown humanity which will one day be revealed in Christ."
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