Sentences with phrase «syncretism represents»
Sanneh says «syncretism represents the unresolved, unassimilated and tension - filled mixing of Christian ideas with local custom and ritual, and that scarcely results in the kind of fulfilling change signaled by conversion and church membership.
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Some think my criticisms represent a slippery slope in one direction (toward legalistic tendencies); Henry and Hesselgrave make it clear that there are two slippery slopes, and the other one ends in this very sort of designer theology that constitutes syncretism.