GloboChrist by Carl Raschke

Author:Carl Raschke
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook, book
Publisher: Baker Academic & Brazos Press
Published: 2010-07-31T16:00:00+00:00

1. The persistence of this approach made major national news in 1999 when the International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention came out with “prayer guides” to non-Christian religions that made the following statements, for example, about Hinduism: “Hindus lack a concept of sin or personal responsibility.” There is a “darkness in their Hindu hearts that no lamp can dispel.”

2. See Benjamin Barber, Jihad versus McWorld: How Globalism and Tribalism Are Reshaping the World (New York: Ballantine Books, 1996).

3. See Rodney Stark, The Rise of Christianity: How the Obscure, Marginal Jesus Movement Became the Dominant Religious Force (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1997).

4. Jonathan Z. Smith, Drudgery Divine: On the Comparison of Early Christianities and the Religions of Late Antiquity (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990), 45.

5. “Mystery Religion,” Encyclopædia Britannica (2006). Encyclopædia Britannica Premium Service, August 10, 2006, http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9108747.

6. Philip Jenkins, The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002), 143.

7. Excerpt from Clayborne Carson, Ralph E. Luker, and Penny A. Russell, eds., The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., vol. 1 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992); quoted online at the publisher’s Web site, http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/publications/papers/vol1/500215-The_Influence_of_the_Mystery_Religions_on_Christianity.htm.

8. Kang San Tan, “A Kingdom-Oriented Framework for Encountering Buddhist World Views,” paper presented at Bible and Nations Conference, Regent University, 2003.

9. Philip Jenkins, God’s Continent: Christianity, Islam, and Europe’s Religious Crisis (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), 54.

10. Quoted from the Web site http://www.scala-gemeinde.de/14.0.html.

11. John Hall, “Open Plains, Open Hearts Welcome Austrian Baptists to Texas,” The Baptist Standard (August 17, 2007), http://www.baptiststandard.com/postnuke/index.php?module=htmlpages&func=display&pid=6703.

12. Conversation with Cooper Taylor, December 15, 2007.

13. Ibid.

14. E-mail from Jason Valdez, December 29, 2007.

15. Telephone conversation with Jason Valdez, December 17, 2007.

16. Ibid.

17. Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Europe: Today and Tomorrow (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2004), 33.

18. Ibid., 34.

19. Jenkins, The Next Christendom, 164.

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