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Article: Liberating word: the power of the Bible in the global South.
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- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- July 11, 2006
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GATHERINGS OF the worldwide Anglican Communion have been contentious events in recent years. On one occasion, two bishops were participating in a Bible study, one from Africa, the other from the U.S. As the hours went by, tempers frayed as the African expressed his confidence in the clear words of scripture, while the American stressed the need to interpret the Bible in the light of modern scholarship and con temporary mores. Eventually, the African bishop asked in exasperation, "If you don't believe the scripture, why did you bring it to us in the first place?"
Fifty years ago, Americans might have dismissed the conservatism of Christians in the global South as ...