In this groundbreaking study, the authors make an unsettling claim: Anabaptist churches of the Global South have more in common with the church of the first three centuries than they do with contemporary churches in Europe and North America that claim the Anabaptist name. With data from eighteen thousand church members in ten countries, they show how historical patterns of church renewal are repeating themselves today in the Asia, Africa, and Latin America. The study does more than crunch statistics; it probes the sources and nature of the renewal and growth. And it pushes readers to ask what these trends can teach the churches of the North in their own quest for faithfulness and vitality.
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978-0-8361-9636-8 (9780836196368)
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Conrad L. Kanagy is Professor of Sociology at Elizabethtown College, Pennsylvania, where he has taught since 1993. From 2000-2005 he was lead pastor of Elizabethtown Mennonite Church and since October, 2011 has again been serving in that role. Conrad was born in Covington, Kentucky, and grew up in Belleville, Pennsylvania. His undergraduate degree is from Wheaton College in Illinois and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees are from Penn State University. From 2005-2007 Conrad was director of the Mennonite Member Profile of Mennonite Church USA and authored Road Signs for the Journey (Herald Press) as a result of that project. In 2008 he conducted a study of Mennonite church planters in the U.S. and in 2010 the Global South profile described in Winds of the Spirit. Conrad and his wife Heidi live in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania. They are parents of one adult son.
