Harvie Conn Quotes

Harvie Conn, who related this story in one of his books, added that gospel preaching that targets some sins but not the sins of oppression “cannot possibly work among the overwhelming majority of people in the world, poor peasants and workers.

Tanchanpongs argues, however, that it is wrong to look at Scripture and imagine that some core, essential teachings are more important than other, more tangential ones. In fact, Harvie Conn argued that syncretism is most likely to occur when (in the name of culture) we forbid the whole of Scripture to speak. Every culture will find some parts of Scripture more attractive and other parts more offensive. It will be natural, then, for those in that culture to consider the inoffensive parts more “important” and “essential” than the offensive parts.