Four Views on Salvation in a Pluralistic World (Counterpoints: Bible and Theology) by R. Douglas Geivett

Author:R. Douglas Geivett [Geivett, R. Douglas]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Religion, Spirituality, Apologetics, Salvation Theory, Christian Books, Bibles, Religious Studies, Reference, Soteriology, Theology
Amazon: B003WE9ZKC
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: 2010-09-20T21:00:00+00:00

We must therefore be intensely suspicious of the naive assumption that religion is a well-defined category that can be sharply and surgically distinguished from culture as a whole. The fact that classical Greek mythology, Confucianism, Taoism, the various and diverse religions of India that have been misleadingly brought together under the generic term “Hinduism,” Christianity, totemism, and animism can all be called “religions” points to this being an alarmingly broad and diffuse category without any real distinguishing features.

The first step in addressing religious pluralism is to eliminate notions of religion that reflect Western cultural bias. There is no place in global theology for an ethnocentric notion of religion, so clearly reflecting Western assumptions and misunderstandings of non-Western cultural phenomena. Western theology has singularly failed to do this. Sociology has been much more open to respecting the astonishing variety of beliefs within the religions. As Anthony Giddens, professor of sociology at the University of Cambridge, points out, “religion” cannot be defined in Western terms:

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