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D<\/span>avid Goldman (It\u2019s Not the End of the World, It\u2019s Just the End of You<\/em><\/a>) claims that the Global South is marked by two trends: \u201cthe fastest rate of cultural extinction in history as well as the fastest rate of Christian evangelization in history.\u201d The two, he argues, are related: \u201cIt is only because of the terrible depth of [the tragedy of cultural extinction] that hundreds of millions of souls turn in fear and trembling to a religion that represents itself as standing above all cultures: the ekklesia<\/em> of individuals called out from among the nations to the Kingdom of God\u201d (60).<\/p>\n

This movement quite literally repeats the exodus of Abraham \u201cwho, at divine command, left behind clan and kindred in the world of four thousand years ago, when clan and kindred were everything. Given a son in old age, Abraham was told to sacrifice that son, thereby destroying his links to the future.\u201d<\/p>\n

Goldman elaborates: \u201cAmong peoples facing the erasure of their links to the past and uncertainty about their future, Abraham\u2019s frame of mind on Mount Moriah must seem much less remote than it does to the comfortable Christians of the North. The Hebrew Bible has a personal meaning for the new Christians of the South because in a sense they relive the experience of the patriarch. Like the myriad tribes of the Roman Empire and the invading barbarians of the Middle Ages, hundreds of people will give up their tribal identity and in compensation receive Christianity\u201d (61).<\/p>\n

Goldman admits that \u201copinions will remain divided as to whether this is a good thing or a bad thing,\u201d but he suggests that \u201cit very well may be the main thing occurring in our present century\u201d (61).<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"