Back in the 1920’s E. Stanley Jones wrote something to the effect of, Christ did not come to abolish Judaism but to fulfill it. Jones went on to build a case challenging the colonialist missionary movement of his day, arguing that Christ didn’t come to destroy Hinduism but to fulfill it, …to fulfill Islam, …to fulfill Buddhism, etc.
This has me thinking again about our reading of the Palmers book, “Jesus Sutras,” Bjork’s “Unfamiliar Paths,” and Oleksa’s “Orthodox Alaska.”
What if in the name of Christ we sought to preserve and fulfill the beauty of God seen through other religions? While always imagining together a more faithful following of the Jesus Way. Like if Saddam Hussein began to follow Christ, should he renounce Islam and become a Methodist or something, or could he live Christ within Islam?
Peace, dwight
