the proliferation of multiple local, ethnic, or culturally specific “theologies” at the expense of any unifying framework transcending particular contexts. Hiebert calls for the church to move beyond both the colonialist and the anticolonialist approach to embrace a responsible, global perspective that acknowledges both commonalities and differences among peoples and that admits both positive and negative elements of local cultures and religious traditions. The arrogance of the past is to be replaced
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