Monthly Archive: November, 2013
Christ Pantocrator

When Christianity began expanding to other lands outside of Jerusalem, at the beginning, there were religious practices of the Early Church that linked Christianity to Jewish traditions. As time passed by, many cultures adopted Christianity, and those practices disappeared, giving birth to a local gospel. Places like Europe and North America later developed their “own” Christianity, and when missionaries from these places went abroad in a missional field such as Asia or Africa, not only they shared the Gospel but also their culture, customs, and worldviews. An example of this process, Father Vincent J. Donovan in Christianity Rediscovered shares significant insights about …