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crda-509	Adelekan, Tokunbo	Christian Compassion: A Charitable History: Book Review	2022	2	.pdf	application/pdf	1416	43	35	As Lynn uses these to choose and frame what, who, and how to include in this history, he traces the evolution of Christian compassion through the epochs, from small-scale individual and communal efforts geared to those in need, to the development of the church as the patron of the poor, to the institutionalization, professionalization, and specialization of care during Christendom, and to the explosion of parachurch organizations fostered in a significant way by the globalized and competitive missions movement that has resulted in what Lynn sees today as three streams of Christian charity: the liberation and justice stream, peace and humanitarianism, and mutual aid and community development. Therefore, given the radical contingency and intractable Christian Relief, Development, and Advocacy 3(2), Winter 2022 Adelekan, Book Review 52 changeability of all human affairs, it is important that we approach the grand scheme of Christian witness with a degree of epistemic humility and philosophical irony.	cache/crda-509.pdf	txt/crda-509.txt