Winds of the Spirit: A Profile of Anabaptist Churches in the Global South

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In this groundbreaking study, the authors make an unsettling claim: Anabaptist churches

of the Global South have more in common

with the church of the first three centuries

than they do with contemporary churches

in Europe and North America that claim the

Anabaptist name. With data from eighteen

thousand church members in ten countries,

they show how historical patterns of church

renewal are repeating themselves today in the

Asia, Africa, and Latin America. The study

does more than crunch statistics; it probes the

sources and nature of the renewal and growth.

And it pushes readers to ask what these trends

can teach the churches of the North in their

own quest for faithfulness and vitality.