<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes" ?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title><![CDATA[Jubilee Centre - Blog]]></title><link>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/jubilee/blogs.php</link><description><![CDATA[Comments on the blog: Unity and diversity: the Church, race and ethnicity]]></description><language>en-gb</language><lastBuildDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2011 11:03:08 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[Jeremiah ]]></title><link>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/comments/183/unity_and_diversity_the_church_race_and_ethnicity#comment1558</link><description><![CDATA[True unity and real diversity can be worked out in a structure different from the one suggested. 'Self governing' attribute can be given to each diocese and 'true unity' can be made visible when believers from different linguistic groups come together. 

What I observe here in India is that mono-linguistic groups become a close group without sufficient scope even for evangelism. As the member outside of that group cannot participate in the church service due to linguistic alienation the group eventually becomes a closed group. In certain part of India different linguistic Christian groups killed each other when political differences prompted such feelings. I have not read anyone do research on this topic here, but I suspect evangelism is India is poorer because many potential groups are closed groups. ]]></description><guid>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/comments/183/unity_and_diversity_the_church_race_and_ethnicity#comment1558</guid><pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2011 11:03:08 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Salamander]]></title><link>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/comments/183/unity_and_diversity_the_church_race_and_ethnicity#comment1308</link><description><![CDATA[Thank you for this post. It was very useful for me. I love learning more news on such  topics. Recently I have downloaded a great video from http://www.picktorrent.com torrent search engine which helps to understand this issue better. This source will also help you find much useful information for free.]]></description><guid>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/comments/183/unity_and_diversity_the_church_race_and_ethnicity#comment1308</guid><pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 13:14:03 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Salamander]]></title><link>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/comments/183/unity_and_diversity_the_church_race_and_ethnicity#comment1307</link><description><![CDATA[thank you for the post. This website is awesome.]]></description><guid>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/comments/183/unity_and_diversity_the_church_race_and_ethnicity#comment1307</guid><pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 13:12:56 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mark Kreitzer]]></title><link>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/comments/183/unity_and_diversity_the_church_race_and_ethnicity#comment1266</link><description><![CDATA[Some excellent thoughts.  However, there are two weaknesses.  One, as Trinitarian Christians, we do not believe in Unity in Diversity.  That is dualist and ultimately--if applied to the Trinity--is modalist or similar.  Unity does not transcend and encompass diversity nor visa versa.  Trinitarianism teaches true [i.e., visible] unity and real [i.e., self-governing, etc.] diversity at the same time.  This can be worked out in (Con)federal structures.  Second, Churches grow in family and friendship circles.  Thus local cells of believers of friends and family can be mono-linguistic, mono-cultural.  They can even band together into congregations and classes/diocese/presbteries.  But they can fellowship with other groups of different languages within the same geographic territory (e.g. Great London or New York, etc.).  
See 
Kreitzer, Mark.  2009.  The Concept of Ethnicity in the Bible: A Theological Analysis.  Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press.
Hughes, Dewi.  Castrating Culture: A Christian Perspective on Ethnic Identity from the Margins. 

I\\\\\\\'d like to dialogue.

Mark R. Kreitzer, D. Miss., Ph.D. 
Visiting Professor 
Reformed Theological Seminary
Kosin University]]></description><guid>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/comments/183/unity_and_diversity_the_church_race_and_ethnicity#comment1266</guid><pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 04:48:53 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jeremiah Duomai]]></title><link>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/comments/183/unity_and_diversity_the_church_race_and_ethnicity#comment1161</link><description><![CDATA[I quite like the paper. Regarding allowing immigrants to have their own group in the beginning, it sounds quite nice, but I am afraid, most often they tend to become a closed group sometime later. ]]></description><guid>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/comments/183/unity_and_diversity_the_church_race_and_ethnicity#comment1161</guid><pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 08:25:46 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doug Flett]]></title><link>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/comments/183/unity_and_diversity_the_church_race_and_ethnicity#comment1126</link><description><![CDATA[Unity, like faith, must be accompanied by works. Works of unity require cooperation, management, cross fertilisation and teamwork  in the Body. These are skills and activities mostly in the hands of non-clergy. Diversity is stiffled by the bottle-neck, as David Watson once put it, of the clergy. Without leadership reform, the vital need of unity and diversity cannot be accomplished.]]></description><guid>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/comments/183/unity_and_diversity_the_church_race_and_ethnicity#comment1126</guid><pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:39:32 GMT</pubDate></item><atom:link href="http://www.jubilee-centre.org/comments.xml.php" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /></channel></rss>
