page_title: World Christianity
section_title: Notable figures
hierarchical_section_title: World Christianity / Notable figures
caption_attribution_description: English: Professor Andrew F. Walls at the Yale-Edinburgh Conference
context_page_description: World Christianity or global Christianity is a term that attempts to convey the global nature of the Christian religion. However, the term often focuses on "non-Western Christianity" which "comprises instances of Christian faith in 'the global South', in Asia, Africa and Latin America." It also includes indigenous or diasporic forms in Western Europe and North America.
context_section_description: Some notable figures in the academic study of world Christianity include Andrew Walls, Lamin Sanneh, and Brian Stanley, all three of whom are associated with the "Yale-Edinburgh Group on the History of the Missionary Movement and World Christianity". More recently, Klaus Koschorke and the “Munich School” of World Christianity has been highlighted for its contribution in understanding the polycentric nature of world Christianity.
  In contrast to these historians, there is a growing number of theologians who have been engaging the field of world Christianity from the discipline of systematic theology. Some examples of this include the Pentecostal Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen and the Catholic Peter C. Phan.
caption: Andrew Walls, a key pioneer in the field of World Christianity
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