The Gambia was transitioning from ancient tradition to Islam. In the commissioning of the twelve apostles, for example, Jesus commands them to be scrupulous in restricting their mission to a branch of the Jewish tribes and to refrain from any missionary contact with Gentiles Matt. This shift had radical implications for Christian ethics, for warrants and injunctions that once hinged on eschatological fear now shifted to matters of administrative implementation. View Full Size. He was in radical tension with his own cultural roots, not because those roots were unsound but because the Gentile breakthrough cast a shadow over any claims of cultural favoritism, Jewish or other.
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