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Encountering the West : Christianity and the global cultural process : the African dimension / Lamin Sanneh. [print]

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: World Christian theology seriesPublication details: Maryknoll, New York : Orbis Books, (c)1993.Description: 286 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780883449295
  • 9780883449349
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BR115
  • BR115.S228.E536 1993
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Contents:
2. 'They Stooped to Conquer': Cultural Vitality and the Indigenous Impulse in Missionary Translations -- 3. Gospel and Culture: Theological and Religious Reflections -- 4. Religious Insiders and Cultural Outsiders, or Religious Outsiders and Cultural Insiders? The Intercultural Critique -- 5. Religious Agnostics and Cultural Believers: Comparative Soundings on the Lost Trails of Christendom -- 6. 'The Garden of Eden Without the Snake?' The Moral Sting in the Cultural Tale: Some Conclusions.
Subject: Does religion reinforce the balkanization of cultural attitudes or does it help people transcend their culture? A noted scholar of world Christianity, Lamin Sanneh offers Westerners a perspective on such questions, a way to test the religio-cultural water and air in which they live.Summary: He shows how modernity has made of moderns "cultural believers" and "religious agnostics," and how the stubborn refusal to confront this bias in both secular and religious culture depletes both Christianity and Western culture.
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Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status) Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status) G. Allen Fleece Library CIRCULATING COLLECTION Non-fiction BR115.C8S26 1993 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31923001519517

"First published in Great Britain in 1993 by Marshall Pickering"--T.p. verso.

1. Religion and the Cultural Project: An Examination of Thought and Action -- 2. 'They Stooped to Conquer': Cultural Vitality and the Indigenous Impulse in Missionary Translations -- 3. Gospel and Culture: Theological and Religious Reflections -- 4. Religious Insiders and Cultural Outsiders, or Religious Outsiders and Cultural Insiders? The Intercultural Critique -- 5. Religious Agnostics and Cultural Believers: Comparative Soundings on the Lost Trails of Christendom -- 6. 'The Garden of Eden Without the Snake?' The Moral Sting in the Cultural Tale: Some Conclusions.

Does religion reinforce the balkanization of cultural attitudes or does it help people transcend their culture? A noted scholar of world Christianity, Lamin Sanneh offers Westerners a perspective on such questions, a way to test the religio-cultural water and air in which they live.

He shows how modernity has made of moderns "cultural believers" and "religious agnostics," and how the stubborn refusal to confront this bias in both secular and religious culture depletes both Christianity and Western culture.

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