Saturday, December 5, 2020

Eurotheism vs Christianity - Dr. Cheryl Coleman

Eurotheism is "a pervasive and influential alternative view of Christianity that reveals itself through many factors." In contrast to Christianity - it holds to notions of:

(A) faith belief and practice based on traditional European thought and experience (while Christianity supports the adherence to and practice of Biblical thought and teachings, which are meant to transcend cultural or socially constructed thoughts and teachings)

(B) racial/ethnic stratification and ethnocentrism, which lends to a perception that Non Whites hold second class citizenship to Whites in society and in the Christian church (while Christianity reveals that God is no respecter of persons, God has no favorites, and everyone is regarded equally)

(C) forceful stances in market capitalism, individualism, competition, self-preservation and self-indulgence (while Christianity overwhelmingly embodies care for others, self-sacrifice, justice, and charity)

(D) alterations to Christianity based on changing social or social political factors that support a worldview through a European-American lens that may also include typically conservative political or non- religious ideology (while Christianity supports consistency in ideas and attitudes based solely on Biblical thought about God's character)

(E) nationalism and patriotism that regards European Americanism as Christianity by default (while biblically, one’s nationality or place of citizenship, cannot be found nor named as a way to know and experience God)

(F) cultural pride and identity (versus identity in Christ)

 

Dr. Cheryl Coleman (2017)