This paper reviews the importance of historical studies within the theology curriculum and evaluates some of the perplexities and roadblocks that continue to beset efforts at writing or teaching a global Christian history. It argues that even though recent transformations within global Christianity have stimulated laudable efforts at constructing a new Christian historiography and produced fresh perspectives on non-Western Christianities, developing a global Christian history faces three formidable challenges: the entrenched metropolitan perspective of mission studies, a rigid and outmoded curriculum design, and Western intellectual hegemony. It concludes with a brief examination of credible solutions, including the need for new conceptual models and a new hermeneutic.
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