Section 34
Section 34
The Western World
Christianity in the Western world between 1950 and 1975 is simply that it continued to be gradual, painful withdrawal from entrenched legal and cultural establishment.
By 1975 in the Western world Christianity was less and less the legally or culturally established religion.
The non-Western World
By 1975 the overall character of the Christian movement in the non-Western world was extensively different from its Western Counterpart.
By 1975 underwent the most rapid transition into modern ways, mainly Western ways.
Africa
The overall picture in Africa seemed to imply that the power of the church would go unopposed only if it supported political governments, or at least avoided conflict with them.
By early 1975 the legal establishment of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church was increasingly tenuous.
Asia
By 1975 Christianity possessed literally thousands of centers of outreach, mostly new in the 20th Century.
One great handicap to a continuation of Western mission efforts was the widespread assumption that the evangelism and missionary outreach of the younger churches, once established, would be automatic.
A similar barrier existed to Christian efforts among the Chinese.
The Christian movement was one of major contributions to international understanding.
Diversity and Unity
Christianity expanded across the world become clothed in the language and culture of all peoples accepting it.
The United Nations gathered together all of the diversity of humanity.
As late as World War II, Christian nations were locked in massive conflict.
By 1975 there still seemed no hope of resolving the conflict between Protestants and Catholics in Ireland.