How does a society’s worldview and/or religious beliefs affect development?
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by Ounho, Cho, PhD
This article describes and compares view of spiritual warfare from Indo-European/Hindu, Tribal, Cosmic Dualism, and Biblical points of view. Each acknowledge a cosmic spiritual battle between good and evil.
Critical Contextualization avoids both uncritical rejection and uncritical acceptance. It insists that old beliefs and customs first be examined to resolve their meanings and functions in the society and then their acceptability in the light of biblical norms.
Read Moreby Dan Poenaru
The dichotomy between physical and spiritual health reflects a gradual degradation of the church from a living, thriving body of believers connected through all spheres of life on earth into a social club gathering offering a very specific, and limited, range of “spiritual services” such as marriages, burials, childhood and adult Christian education, and the like. In the African culture and tradition, this “divine specialization” (Loewen 2000, 95-101) is particularly concerning.
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