The first is his formulation of the Western worldview in terms of two separated realms—material and spiritual—with a gap between the two, the “excluded middle.” Linking this with the thinking of Lesslie Newbigin provides the explanation for many of the dichotomies with which Western Christians struggle: faith and reason, evangelism and development, church and state, and values and facts. These dichotomies are major hindrances to finding a genuinely holistic Christian approach to human transformation.
