Born in the former Yugoslavia, he was alert to the danger Muslims in Manhattan faced after 9/11. He organised public meetings to help defuse fears about the terrorist attacks.
One trusts he was alert to the danger posed by certain radical Muslims as well.
... conservative evangelicalism has made a mistake, he continues. Its desire to share and spread the good news has led it to treat non-Christians as objects: "We have it, they have to receive it" – "it" being the message of Christ. But what kind of good news is it, Selmanovic asks, when only an elect few have it? What kind of control freakery is inherent in the perception that you alone have a message from God and cannot receive any good news from others?
Well, I subscribe to Karl Rahner's latitudinarian interpretation of the doctrine of baptism of desire: Those who wish to be with God, and strive to be, will be.
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