Culture, Abstraction, and Ethnocentrism
What appears to be a positive appreciation of non-Western cultures, both in secular society and in the church, may be but ethnocentrism in disguise. Within Western theology, abstract thinking has been used to purge Christianity of “undesirable” concreteness; the same method is used within missiology...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage
1993
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Missiology
Year: 1993, Volume: 21, Issue: 1, Pages: 3-11 |
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| Summary: | What appears to be a positive appreciation of non-Western cultures, both in secular society and in the church, may be but ethnocentrism in disguise. Within Western theology, abstract thinking has been used to purge Christianity of “undesirable” concreteness; the same method is used within missiology to render the religious and philosophical contents of other cultures morally and intellectually acceptable and to make them compatible with Christianity. |
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| ISSN: | 2051-3623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Missiology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/009182969302100101 |