Glenn Hinson and Inclusivism

                                                                                                                       Vol. XIII, No. 8 Sept/Oct 2000

"Today, it would appear, the covenant and thus the mission of the church could be defined with a greater measure of tolerance. This would not necessitate an abandonment of monotheism nor of the conviction that some sort of special revelation occurred through Israel and Christ and the church.

"It might necessitate, however, the acknowledgment that the one God has disclosed himself in particular ways through other cultures and religions besides these. Thus, as one discerns in the thought of Vatican II, Christianity might see its mission not so much in competition with the other world religions as in cooperation or in conjunction with them."

--Hinson, E. Glenn. The Evangelization of the Roman Empire, (Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1981), p. 287. Hinson is a former professor at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and, more recently, at the very liberal Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond.