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CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY FOR MISSIONS M.M.NINAN In what follows I am trying to build up an appropriate model on which we could build our responses to non-Christian ideologies and religions. Before presenting the new model, let me present the two existing models. 2. Static Closed Set Model (SC) The other day our family had a problem to decide whether the Seventh Day Adventists were Christians or not. After a long discussion and argument we relaxed our boundaries to include them “in”. We all define boundaries and norms to decide the “in” and “out”. These norms consist of various factors some of which are absolutes. These may be represented as follows: Fig 1 Norms for each section may vary from person to person, one denomination to another, one country to another. Often they are rigid boundaries. For example some would accept Seventh Day Adventists as Christians, but some wont. Some wont accept a- millennial teachings as Christian. Are Catholics Christians? Will you permit child baptism? Some parts of the boundaries are rather fuzzy and ill defined and so are some attributes. I have put ethical 91
CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY FOR MISSIONS M.M.NINAN aspects of behavioral patterns at the outer fringes. But they are determinative for some. A Christian may not be a drunkard or an opium addict, but may be a smoker and a cinema goer. All these are factors. We may draw boundaries around some and not others. These norms therefore form a closed set. That is, how an average man thinks, Fig 1 SC Model The Universe is represented by dots. All these ‘in’ are Christian; all those ‘out’ are non-Christian. I do allow lots of fuzzy and diffuse borders in the ethical and behavioral fields, but I am rigid in the concept of Jesus and doctrines because of 1 John 4:2-3 A “Hereby know ye the spirit of God; every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God. And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come of flesh id not of God” 92
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