It has been estimated that if things continue in the direction they are now going, by the year 2000 Christians of the Eastern Orthodox churches together with churches in the rest of the Western world will make up only about 40 percent of the world Christian population. The nations and cultures which these churches represent are in an apparent declension that makes their past splendor irretrievable. The Western zenith has passed, and no one really knows where things are headed from here.
Whether it need be so or not is a matter of debate, but the fact remains that Orthodox and Western Protestant and Catholic churches are declining at least as rapidly as the nations and cultures they live in. What, then, will be the viability of these churches by the year 2000? And do we have any hints at what will be the nature of the churches representing the remaining 60 percent of the Christian world by the same date?
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