The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity

The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity

Philip Jenkins
Distinguished Professor of History and Religious Studies
Pennsylvania State University

Christianity is moving south—not to the Bible belt—but to Latin America and Africa.

BYU Faculty Panel Discussion
Wednesday, 4 October
3:00 P.M.
238 HRCB

• Ted Lyon, panel chair, Latin American studies coordinator, and professor of Spanish
• Paul Y. Hoskisson, Richard L. Evans Chair of Religious Understanding
• Roger R. Keller, professor of Church history and doctrine
• Richard N. Holzapfel, associate professor of church history and doctrine
• Mark L. Grover, Africa and Latin America subject specialist, Harold B. Lee Library

Author Lecture
The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity

Thursday, 19 October
2:00 P.M.
JSB Auditorium

Author Q&A and Book Signing Reception

Thursday, 19 October
3:00 P.M.
238 HRCB

Philip Jenkins has written extensively on the globalization of Christianity and other topics. Jenkin's book, the Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity (2002), won the 2003 Christianity Today Book Award, the Gold Medallion book award, and the Theologos award for the Best Academic Book. He received a PhD from the University of Cambridge (1978), and a double first-class honor BA in history and Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic Studies (1974). During graduate school, he was a research officer on an Oxford and Cambridge project on the history of criminal law 1790–1914.

Jenkins and his wife are the parents of six children.