God before Christianity

My stay at Navajeevan, Vizag for the past one week or less, was quite useful (of course, it meant more work and a bit of fear for the staff over there). While there I found time to complete my paper corrections and also began a couple of book reviews. One of them, concerning Africa had this unorthodox insight about God, Jesus and Christianity.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu shattered an interfaith audience in the Johannesburg suburb of Lenasia in 1993 by saying that God was not a Christian. "Why do you seem surprised?" he asked. "Jesus was born only two thousand years ago. Do you think God was doing nothing before that?" [Mayson, Cedric Why Africa Matters (New York: Orbis Books, 2010) 21.]

Perhaps there is something here to reflect about Christianity and its 'claim' concerning religious pluralism.