The Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide is a research and teaching centre in Cambridge (UK) facilitating academic research of, and practical engagement with, the global Church in the 21st century. It is one of a growing number of World Christianity Centres around the world. World Christianity is a subject within Theology that explores the histories, practices, and theologies of the global
Church. It studies the past century’s expansion of Christianity from the West to many other parts of the world, particularly in the global South, and subsequent reverse and transformation of global Christianity and rise in reverse mission. It explores the history of missions and the contemporary mission of the Church. It examines the variety of local expressions of the Christian faith in response to their context. It looks at the impact of war, poverty, other faiths, environmental concerns and catastrophes, contextual adversities, persecutions, and politics, on the Church and the resulting hermeneutics, social action, styles of worship, and expressions of theology.
