Missio Dei; Christian History Envisioned as Cruciform Apostolicity

The writing of church history has gone through many transformations in the past four decades. Postcolonial studies, postmodernism, theological studies of the Trinity and of the missio Dei, along with the movement of the center of Christianity from the West to the South, have all influenced how Christian history (as opposed to church history) is envisioned and written. It is the thesis of this essay that Christianity should be written on its own terms, as a centered set religion viewed with the dual eyes of crucgormity (humiliation; power in weakness) and aposlolicity (sending of the Body of Christ into the world). The implications of such story-telling are given in specijic examples.