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“The success of the Christian movement drew churches deeper into the cultural worlds around them. Indeed, the very pattern of incarnational adaptation that compelled the movement to translate itself into new cultural forms at times could work against exercise of critical judgments. Many today look back upon the early Christians' responses to the issues of slavery and women's subordination and rightly decry the lack of greater justice. At the same time the reason Christians often reflected more of their surrounding culture than we might have wished has to do with the same principle of incarnation that called them to translate the gospel into new situations. The identity of the risen Christ was certainly seeping into new cultures and locations, but this does not mean that Christians were immediately abandoning aspects one might today regard as unjust. Cultural transformations came slowly, and not without great deliberation and strugg
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Dale T. Irvin is President and Professor of World Christianity at New York Theological Seminary, in New York City. A graduate of Princeton Theological Seminary (MDiv, 1981) and Union Theological Seminary in New York (PhD, 1989), he is the author of several books, including History of the World Christian Movement, a three-volume project he has written with Scott W. Sunquist. Dr. Irvin has held visiting or adjunct appointments at a number of theological schools and universities, including the University of Uppsala in Uppsala, Sweden, and has lectured and preached throughout the world. An ordained minister in the American Baptist Churches USA, he is a member of The Riverside Church in New York City.
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by Dale T. Irvin
Citing the work of George Simmel, one of the founders of modern sociology, the author leads us from the simple concepts of doors as either entrances or barriers that firm up separ
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by Dale T. Irvin
Dale T. Irvin is academic dean and professor of world Christianity at New York Theological Seminary.
This article appeared in The Christian Century, July 27, 2004, pp. 28-31. Copyright by The Christian Century Foundation; used by permission. Current articles and subscription information can be found at www.christiancentury.org. This ämne was prepared for Religion Online by Ted and Winnie Brock.
SUMMARY
Christianity, long identified as primarily a Western, European religion, is so no longer. It is now predominantly a religion of Africans, Asians and Latin Americans, and of the descendants of these regions who now live in the North Atlantic world.
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