Christianity in Decline

For most of us who have claimed the clues to the mysteries of life in the story of the Christian faith, we have rooted ourselves in the history of the Christian mission that moved from Paul's trips to Greece and Rome to the spread of the Christian faith to Europe and then to the United States. We have developed a great treasury of intelligent, scholarly, wise books. We claim Augustine, Aquinas, Calvin, Luther, Erasmus, Barth, Tillich and the list of theologians who have marked the way is long.

From the moment that ships set sail in exploration of the "new world" there has been the idea that Christians should be involved in taking the Christian message to those who had not heard it. The story of that Christian missionary work has not always been a good story. The methods and approaches of missionaries to the natives was often condescending and paternalistic, but Christians from Europe, and later from the North America believed that they were the ones with the answers. They were the teachers and givers.

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