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Early Returns Are Mixed

Global evangelicals don't necessarily vote like American evangelicals.

Mark A. Noll | posted 7/01/2008 08:33AM

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Of course, much the same could be said about evangelical movements and politics in the rest of the world, including some places very close to home.

Mark A. Noll, Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame

Related elsewhere:

Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in Africa , Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in Latin America, and Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in Asia are available from Amazon.com and other booksellers.

Previous articles about Global South Christianity include:

Allah's Continent? | Not so fast, says Philip Jenkins in God's Continent. (August 20, 2007)

Gospel Riches | Africa's rapid embrace of prosperity Pentecostalism provokes concernand hope. (July 6, 2007)

Global Ultimatum | The larger meaning of Anglican leaders' demand that the Episcopal Church change its ways. (March 16, 2007)

"Shall the Fundamentalists Win?" | An excerpt from Philip Jenkins' new book, The New Faces of Christianity: Believing the Bible in the Global South. (December 5, 2006)

God's Word in an Old Light | Philip Jenkins on how global South Christians read the Bible. (December 5, 2006)

Out of Africa | The leader of nearly 18 million Nigerian Anglicans challenges the West's theology and control. (July 2005)

It's a Small Church After All | Globalization is changing how Christians do ministry.(November 6, 1998)

Turning the World Upside Down | The coming of global Christianity. (March 1, 2002)

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Lindy Scott

Posted: July 01, 2008 3:55 PM

Mark Noll, with his typical precision, gives us glimpses of how evangelcals around the world live out their faith in the public arena. He is right to stress the political diversity to be found among our Christian brothers and sisters. Nevertheless, on some issues there has been much greater consensus. My research on Latin American evangelicals, for example, shows that large majorities (over 85% in most countries) were opposed to the US invasion of Iraq. The Series that Noll bases his comments on will be important for us, and not just to know what the Church around the world is doing. We should read it as if it were a mirror that reveal some of our own strengths and weaknesses. Paul Freston, who is directing the Latin American part, is a top notch scholar.

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