GLOBALIZATION AND CHRISTIANITY’S GREAT END
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This paper explores the dual impact of globalization on Christianity. It argues that globalization
may serve as the ideal vehicle for achieving Christianity’s ultimate goal of worldwide
conversion through improved communication and travel, succeeding where past empires failed.
Simultaneously, however, globalization presents an existential challenge to “modern imperial
Christianity,” characterized by its triumphalism and claims of superiority, by fostering a dynamic
exchange of competing religions and worldviews. There are two main Christian responses to this
shift: a smaller faction that violently resists globalization and a larger group that seeks to adapt
and reform its theology for the new global reality. Ultimately, this paper suggests that globalization
signals the end of imperial Christianity and necessitates a fundamental reformulation of what
it means to be Christian in a global world.
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