North and South

I happened to pick up a book by one of my ex-professors today (see photo). He quotes a letter by a theology student: “Students are often forced into ... accepting evangelicalism, with all of its absolutes, be they Victorian or early twentieth-century ... Would you please tell us how evangelicalism can eliminate some of these extraneous absolutes which make orthodoxy (as we know it) almost impossible to swallow.” This, it seems to me, is still one of the major differences between Global North and Global South. We TEND (this blog is in the South) not to have what I would think are extraneous absolutes: don’t be caught holding a Budweiser, don’t wear the Hammer and Sickle to Church, and so on. OBSERVATION: My professor was Francis Schaeffer, and his adjunct at the time Udo Middelmann.