Sentences with phrase «syncretism when»
Christianity becomes guilty of syncretism when critical, basic elements of the Christian faith are undermined or replaced by the religious elements of its host culture or the world around it.
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But when you hear mainstream theologians talking about syncretism it is always and everywhere wrong.
«I think there is a genuine embarrassment / horror when people in the West look at, for instance, some of the Pentecostal traditions, and I'm always very worried when people look at Asian or African religion and present it as a kind of syncretism, as a kind of survival of the pagan,» says Jenkins.
This process of syncretism was doubtless greatly encouraged when David, in order to conquer the Philistines, substituted alliance with the Amorites for the traditional hostility against them and so built a kingdom which included Yahweh - worshipers and baal - worshipers together.
If this happened in the face of a victory as complete as Islam's over Arabia, how much more would such syncretism take place when, as in Israel's case in Palestine, the Canaanites could not be utterly conquered but, sustained and empowered, so current beliefs would suggest, by their native gods, lived on with the Israelites!
When churches simply measure attendance and offering, we are missing the point and can quickly slip into uncritical contextualization which leads to syncretism.
2) The qualitative measurement of human science data by means of Scripture: avoiding syncretism and relativism when doing contextualization.
Rome began to persecute the Christian Church only when it fought off the smothering embrace of syncretism, and stubbornly insisted that «there is no other name under heaven than Jesus Christ whereby men may be saved.»
As with the back and forth between writing and translating, a similar syncretism happens when working in more than one genre.