04 - Rev Israel Olofinjana | World Christianity in Western Europe

African Theological Scholarship

Rev Israel Oluwole Olofinjana is the founding director of Centre for Missionaries from the Majority World. He is a Baptist minister and pastor of Woolwich Central Baptist Church, south-east London, UK. He is the author and editor of several books on African Christianity, church and mission. Israel has a BA (Hons) in Religious Studies from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria and an MTh from Carolina University of Theology, Virginia, USA.

ABOUT THE BOOK | World Christianity in Western Europe: Diasporic Identity, Narratives & Missiology

Christianity is a world religion with about 2.3 billion Christians. While World Christianity with its attention on the explosive growth of Christianity in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Pacific and Oceania is definitely significant, it is also important to consider World Christianity as it is developing in Europe. This book investigates this phenomenon in Western Europe through the prisms of Diasporic Identity, migrant narratives and their mission theology. It considers the complex Christian identity of people migrating to Europe, their stories and mission praxis. Here is a book including contributors who are scholars and practitioners. These scholars and practitioners are Europeans as well as migrants from the Majority World (Africans, Caribbean, South Asia and Latin Americans) employing an interdisciplinary approach, their work encompasses the fields of Diaspora Missiology, Practical Theology, World Christianity, Contextual Theology and Pentecostal Studies.