CONVERSION
THE CULTURAL DIMENSION
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CULTURAL DIMENSIONAbstract
'Conversion' has become a controversial word. The very idea of
conversion annoys our Hindutva friends. Reports of conversion
provoke violent reaction in the press and on the streets. Christian
thinkers and workers are on the defensive. Missionaries are on the
retreat. Why upset people with your convictions when there is ,so
much opposition? Why be too earnest about your own
understanding of the truth when there are so many versions of it
around?
1. All Universal Ideas Are Self-propagative
And yet we know that all universal ideas have been selfpropagating.
Science advanced because someone who had
discovered
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