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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...raises the question of the uniqueness of Christianity. "Inevitably, the dawn of universal history will be a stimulus to syncretism''-the combining of elements from different religions. "Our most widely read historian. Arnold Toynbee. is an apostle of an amalgam of Christianity and Mahayanian Buddhism." And the syncretist "is an indication of the necessity of a Christian apologetic that will take seriously the new conditions that have emerged and the new context out of which the syncretistic question is asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Age of Syncretism | 10/27/1961 | See Source »

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