Are Christians in the developing world generally more theologically conservative, especially on sexual morality?
I think so, and it s generally true across the board. Immigrants from Africa, Asia and Latin America tend to choose more conservative churches in the United States and Canada. Indian churches are more conservative on these issues. It s also true that Eastern European churches are more conservative than Western churches. When it comes to personal morality, therefore, the growth of a global church will probably mean a harder line. In Spain, to take just one small example, the Romanian Baptists won t drink wine, and they don t let men and women sit together at services. These are certainly not the classical patterns of Spanish Protestantism! Why is this? It s difficult to say. In general, southern Christianity is closer to Biblical patterns of thought. Its way of reading scripture does not make much room for higher criticism, or a modern approach that takes away the supernatural elements and rationalizes everything. It s a way of reading scripture that some might call naïve, in the sense
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