Reverse Mission

Question 1

Give a quote from Anderson on Pentecostalism in Africa.

Answer 1

“The ‘Pentecostalisation’ of African Christianity… has fundamentally altered the character of African Christianity”

Question 2

Give a quote from Hollenweger on Pentecostalism.

Answer 2

“Pentecostalism is revolutionary because it offers alternatives to ‘literary’ theology and defrosts the ‘frozen thinking’ within literary forms of worship and committee debate”

Question 3

Give a quote from Ahkazamea on Black Majority Churches.

Answer 3

“The declining fortunes of Christianity in the public space in Britain have been assuaged by the proliferation of Black Majority Churches (BMCs)”

Question 4

Give a quote from Catto on the reasons for Reverse Mission.

Answer 4

“There is an increase in numbers of committed, often young, people willing and able to travel wishing to evangelise the ‘dark continent of Europe’ and give ‘back’.”

Question 5

Give a quote from Catto on the effects of Reverse Mission on traditional churches.

Answer 5

“the growth of Christianity in the ‘global south’ and of immigrant congregations has made mainline churches in Britain take notice and realise that they also have something to learn in what is a period of transition for them and for wider society.”

Question 6

Give a quote from Mcleod on secularisation.

Answer 6

“We have all become familiar with shrinking congregations and churches closing. But few people realise that the same period has seen the opening of several thousand new churches in the UK”

Question 7

Give a quote from Goodhew on secularisation and resacralisation.

Answer 7

“… elite culture in Britain may well be secularising, whilst other parts of Britain are seeing church growth.”