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Christianinty borrowing from other religions

ShoulderChip · 2007-12-27 01:35:02

Did anyone see the show the hidden jesus on c4 christmas night? It was presented by a black dreadlocked devout christain, who was researching how unique Jesus was with regard to other religious figures, it was excellent television if not a bit slow and didactic. He focuses on such figures as mithrais “Mithras, the sun-god,…

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#32 29-12-2007 4:59pm

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Double post:o

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#33 29-12-2007 5:00pm

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PDN wrote: »

I am finding it fascinating how familiar passages of Scripture look different when viewed from an African context.

Does the overall context and the thrust of the passages remain the same to what we (broadly speaking) have in the West?

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#34 29-12-2007 6:04pm

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PDN wrote: »

Actually it is pretty relevant in this case because Robert Beckford's job title is Reader in Black Theology and Popular Culture at Westminster Institute of Education and he presented a documentary on Channel 4 called God is Black.

I am saying we are not our skin, Robert Beckford apparently doesn't know this. How is his skin in any way relevant to the job he does? I can't see that it is by any stretch. There are a wide variety of cultures and peoples lumped together wrongly as one clumsy homogenous mass by this word 'black'. Frankly it's a nonsense.

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