Subverting Global Myths

by    17th November 2009    0 responses

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This is a great book.  It is full of passion and highly opinionated, so don’t expect to agree with all of it!

If you are open to a fresh perspective  as contrasted with the  assumptions of mainstream Western  thinking  then Ramachandra’s book  may be for you.  He itemises six areas in which global myths have, arguably, been swallowed uncritically by too many.

The myths of: terrorism, religious violence, human rights, multiculturalism, science, and postcolonialism are the chapter headings. Someone has said that rule number one in life is that things are not what they seem. This book robustly argues that point.

A review from Theos provides a more in depth review, and the final critical note of that review is a point well made.

Dr Vinoth Ramachandra holds  a PhD from London  University and lives  in Columbo working with the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students.

The following endorsement  is a good summary:

“Ramachandra offers us a subversive book. If you prefer not to be provoked and challenged, do not read it. Based on solid biblical and theological ground, and on a meticulous and careful reading of cultural trends, this Sri Lankan theologian helps us to identify the global myths that hold us captive and look at them from a critical Christian perspective.” — Samuel Escobar, Theological Seminary of the Spanish Baptist Union, Madrid.

Perhaps I should just mention that the theology in the book is very largely implicit rather than explicit with a result that there are few Bible references but the author’s theological foundations indeed undergird the whole work.

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