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• Syncretism at Home

  
  Thinking Christian — Authority: 416
  My monthly column is up now at BreakPoint: Syncretism (noun): “the amalgamation or attempted amalgamation of different religions, cultures, or schools of thought.” I first heard of syncretism in a seminary course on missions that I took many years ago. It plagues missionaries across the world. New peoples ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Economics of Preaching

  
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  click image to see full size Have you ever thought about the economics of preaching? Probably not.  If you were to take a moment to think about the value we ascribe to the action of preaching in the American church, you may start to wonder if we’ve overvalued it. Think about it from an organizational ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Shamanic Mass Was Celebrated On Sunday, August 14, 2011

  
  Good Jesuit, Bad Jesuit — Authority: 117
  Some excerpts of an article by Fr. Joseph "JoJo" Fung, S.J . and his liturgical practices. The shamanic mass was celebrated on Sunday, August 14, 2011 at the Tulana Research Center for Encounter and Dialogue , Kelaniya , Sri Lanka . The celebration was divided into the Liturgy of the Word, conducted in the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Shaman Jesuit

  
  Good Jesuit, Bad Jesuit — Authority: 117
  Fr Joseph Fung SJ incorporated several Shamanistic symbols and customs in his Eucharistic sacrifice.  Fr Fung said the aim of the Shamanic mass, which he calls a re-envisioned liturgy of sacred sustainability, was to share with fellow Jesuits an experience of indigenous religiosity and how this dialogue shaped ...
  2 weeks ago

• Bible: composed as a reaction against Greek domination?

  
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  Syncretic Bronze Statue -- Venus and Isis?: Wikipedia image Why, when different religions meet, does syncretism sometimes follow? What need does it fulfil? This was the question in the minds of Claude Orrieux and Édouard Will in Ioudaïsmos — Hellenismos; essai sur le judaïsme judéen a l’époque ...
  3 weeks ago

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