From a netfriend:

http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2002/10/jenkins.htm

I read Jenkin’s article some time ago. It was brought to my attention on another list. I find his socio-political argument quite compelling. Still, there are a number of questions to be asked. First, as the societies of the 2/3rd world are subjected, more and more, to Western economic and educational agendas, won’t it be the case that Western modes of thinking will eventually become dominant as well? Second, hasn’t it always been valuable to distinguish between popular belief and theological reflection? If the second is collapsed into the first, then Christianity loses it critical capacity, a capacity which comes first of all from a sustained reflection on the word of the cross rather than from some kind of Kantian enlightenment. The bible itself is a model and paradigm of such reflection.