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Quote from Philip Jenkins and Timothy of Seleucia

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This is an extended quote from Philip Jenkins book, "The Lost History of Christianity: The Thousand-Year Goden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia-- and How it Died" (HarperOne, 2008).  I suppose it may be a longer quote than normal copyrights approve. But I do heartily recommend getting the book for …

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A Church Built to Last? Part One

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Why does the Church in some parts of the world grows, while in other parts dies? As noted by Dr. Philip Jenkins, author of "The Lost History of Christianity: The Thousand-Year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia-- and How it Died", we need to develop a Theology of Extinction. …

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