Understanding World Christianity Religion SIGNS: Journal of Women in

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Catholic Press Association Book Award: Professional Books (1st Place)

He wrote more than 60 books

as well as using their Catholic Christian faith as a means of resisting the colonial project of the United States

such as Virgilio Elizondo

Understanding World Christianity Religion SIGNS: Journal of Women inRecent years have seen a paradigm shift in Christian self understanding. In place of the eurocentric model of "Christendom," a new understanding has emerged of Christianity as a "world" movement. At the cornerstone of this new perspective lies the work of a remarkable scholar, Andrew F. Walls, whose book, The Missionary Movement in Christian History (Orbis 1996) was named by Christianity Today as one of the hundred most influential books of the