Syncretism and Christian Tradition: Race and Revelation in the Study of Religious Mixture

by Ross Kane

Syncretism has been a part of Christianity from its very beginning, when early Christians expressed Jesus' Aramaic teachings in the Greek language. Defined as the phenomena of religious mixture, syncretism carries a range of connotations. In Christian theology, use of syncretism shifted from a compliment during the Reformation to an outright insult in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The term has a history of being used as a neutral descriptor,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197532195
• ISBN13: 9780197532195
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: Oxford Univ PR
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.3"