Christianity is today marginalized in Europe where we live in a post-Christianity regime. Drama or luck? What if the Church of the first centuries, before the time of Christianity, was a useful resource for the renewal and mission of the Church in the 21st century?
The historian Alan Kreider presents the concept of conversion and the practice of catechesis and baptism in the first centuries of the Church, when the Church, a minority and sometimes persecuted, questioned, radiated and attracted through its experience.
The author then becomes a missiologist and suggests possible applications for the current secularized and multireligious context. Through the stimulating contributions of the ancient Church, it joins contemporary reflections on the “missional Church”.
Christians of all faiths have everything to gain from knowing better the history of the first centuries and the testimony of this Church, which is historically closer to its origins. In order to find an answer to these pressing questions: what Church does Europe need today? How will she be faithful to the mission that God entrusts to her?
ISBN: 9782755001839