Culture, Abstraction, and Ethnocentrism

摘要: 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, 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.