What Religious Beliefs are Shaping American Christians Today?
People seem to want to customize their religious lives and draw on many sources to do so. Paul Gritz, the editor of the Southwestern Journal of Theology writes in the edition s introduction column about the trend among American Christians today. Americans and others … do not appear to be single store shoppers, Gritz writes. A more subtle challenge for evangelical Christians arises from the mixing and matching of religious beliefs from several stores. “The journal, published by Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, focuses on four of the most prominent non-Christian religious movements today — Mormonism, the Jehovah s Witnesses, Wicca and the Pop Psychology movement,” reports Baptist Press. Gritz, professor of church history at Southwestern, cites a 2002 Barna Research Group study which notes that Christians have adopted spiritual views from Islam, secular humanism, Eastern religions and even Wicca. Barna cites biblical illiteracy as the reason for the trend. The journal feature
