Mark Noll’s The New Shape of World Christianity

I just received in the mail The New Shape of World Christianity: How American Experience Reflects Global Faith by Mark A. Noll. Special thanks to InterVarsity Press for the complimentary copy that I “won” through a Twitter promotion. Here is the blurb:

With characteristic rigor and insight, in this book Mark Noll revisits the history of the American church in the context of world events. He makes the compelling case that how Americans have come to practice the Christian faith is just as globally important as what the American church has done in the world. He backs up this substantial claim with the scholarly attentiveness we’ve come to expect from him, lucidly explaining the relationship between the development of Christianity in North America and the development of Christianity in the rest of the world, with attention to recent transfigurations in world Christianity. Here is a book that will challenge your assumptions about the nature of the relationship between the American church and the global church in the past and predict what world Christianity may look like.

Mark Noll’s books are always very good and I look foward to reading this one when I get the chance. Thanks again IVP!