Finding Christ Outside of Christianity?

In the evangelical subcultures I had inhabited, the general disposition towards sources of knowledge and wisdom outside of the boundaries of our doctrinal fences was one of suspicion, if not complete derision and distrust. But this was not the disposition of some of the earliest orthodox Christian voices, nor has it been the perspective of some of

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I would suggest that the position with the most theological coherence and historical validity would be best encapsulated this way: God is, and always has been, at work in every culture planting the seeds of Christ even though it may not be communicated in the exact grammar of the traditional Christian lexicon. With Christ as the hermeneutic key, th

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