Week 5--Bevans Chapter 5: The Anthropological Model

When we approach another religion we have to do so as if we are approaching holy ground, and humbly take off our shoes. We don’t want to tread on people’s dreams. But what if from our perspective their dream seems like a nightmare? This is an important caution, but I think most often our perspective is not well informed. We too often wrongly assume things about other peoples’ relationship with God. It’s absolutely crucial, in our pluralistic age, whether we subscribe to the anthropological model or not, to learn about other religions in order to improve our perspective. We also owe it to ourselves to better inform our perspective of own faith.