↑ Ferdinando, Keith (1995). “Sickness and Syncretism in the African Context”. Trong Billington, Antony; Turner, Max (biên tập). Mission and Meaning: Essays Presented to Peter Cotterell (PDF). Paternoster Press. tr. 272. ISBN978-0853646761. Truy cập ngày 30 tháng 6 năm 2018. The Christian faith is inevitably assimilated in terms of the existing structures of thought of its adherents, whatever their culture. Nevertheless, there are points at which the worldview of any people will be found to be incompatible with central elements of the gospel; if conversion to Christianity is to be more than purely nominal, it will necessarily entail the substantial modification of the traditional worldview at such points. Where this does not occur it is the Christian faith which is modified and thus relativised by the worldview, and the consequence is syncretism. [...] The term 'syncretism' [...] is employed here of the substitution or modification of central elements of Christianity by beliefs of practices introduced from elsewhere. The consequence of such a process is fatally to compromise its integrity.
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