Volume 23, Number 13 · August 5, 1976
Christians vs. Christians
By W.H.C. Frend
A History of Christianity
by Paul Johnson
Atheneum, 560 pp., $13.95
Paul the Traveller
by Ernle Bradford
Macmillan, 238 pp., $9.95
Will Christianity survive the year 2000 as a major religion of mankind? Two generations ago such a question would have been outrageous. On the one hand, Fortress Vatican presided over by the saintly Pius X, on the other, the great missionary conference held in Edinburgh in 1910 each in its own way marked the triumphant progress of the religion of Western man. Well might the American Methodist John Raleigh Mott prophesy the evangelization of the world in a single generation. Even in 1938, on the eve of the Second World War, my predecessor as Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Glasgow, Rev. John Foster, described the missionary conference at Tamebaram in south India as one of the milestones along the road toward the Christianization of the world.
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