Book Description
Offers "new possibilities of interpretation for religious pluralism." Covers topics like God's global reach in salvation, a Christology of Grace, and how Scripture views other religions.
Author : Clark H. Pinnock
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 18,85 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Christianity and other religions
ISBN : 0310535913
Offers "new possibilities of interpretation for religious pluralism." Covers topics like God's global reach in salvation, a Christology of Grace, and how Scripture views other religions.
Author : Lesslie Newbigin
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 35,59 MB
Release : 2009-04-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1725225514
Modern man finds the concept of finality alien to his whole way of thinking. Science teaches him that human history is only a moment in the life of an infinite universe. His study of world religions calls into question the uniqueness of Christianity. Western man's uneasy conscience--due to the excesses of colonialism--makes him hesitant to press his own faith on others. By taking the issues of finality out of the classroom, Lesslie Newbigin demonstrates its importance to Christians with loyalties both to the community of the church and to the community of man. He asserts that conversion does not involve either a denial of the value of a person's previous faith or a blanket acceptance of the church's way of doing things. Bishop Newbigin examines the various Christian interpretations of finality, giving special attention to the views of Dutch theologian Hendrik Kraemer about the relationship of Christianity to world religions. The author advances the debate by showing that the way to move beyond Kraemer's position is to look for the place of the gospel in secular history. The gospel is the announcement of an event which demands that all men make a decision for or against. It is the clue to history--the history of mankind and of the individual.
Author : Daniel L. Migliore
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 40,76 MB
Release : 2004-06-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780802827876
Daniel Migliore's Faith Seeking Understanding has been a standard introduction to Christian theology for more than a decade. The book's presentation of traditional doctrine in freshly contemporary ways, its concern to hear and critically engage new voices in theology, and its creative and accessible style have kept it one of the most stimulating, balanced, and readable guides to theology available. This second edition of Faith Seeking Understanding features improvements from cover to cover. Besides updating and expanding the entire text of the book, Migliore has added two completely new chapters. The first, "Confessing Jesus Christ in Context," explores the unique contributions to Christian theology made by recent theologians working in the African American, Asian American, Latin American, Hispanic, feminist, womanist, and mujerista traditions. The second new chapter, "The Finality of Jesus Christ and Religious Pluralism," addresses the growing interest in the relationship of Christianity to other religions and their adherents. Migliore's three delightful theological dialogues are followed by a new appendix, an extensive glossary of theological terms, making the book even more useful to students seeking to understand the history, themes, and challenges of Christian belief.
Author : Lesslie Newbigin
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 31,65 MB
Release : 2009-04-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1606085816
Modern man finds the concept of finality alien to his whole way of thinking. Science teaches him that human history is only a moment in the life of an infinite universe. His study of world religions calls into question the uniqueness of Christianity. Western man's uneasy conscience--due to the excesses of colonialism--makes him hesitant to press his own faith on others. By taking the issues of finality out of the classroom, Lesslie Newbigin demonstrates its importance to Christians with loyalties both to the community of the church and to the community of man. He asserts that conversion does not involve either a denial of the value of a person's previous faith or a blanket acceptance of the church's way of doing things. Bishop Newbigin examines the various Christian interpretations of finality, giving special attention to the views of Dutch theologian Hendrik Kraemer about the relationship of Christianity to world religions. The author advances the debate by showing that the way to move beyond Kraemer's position is to look for the place of the gospel in secular history. The gospel is the announcement of an event which demands that all men make a decision for or against. It is the clue to history--the history of mankind and of the individual.
Author : Gerald R. McDermott
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 30,37 MB
Release : 2000-08-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0830822747
More than ever before, Christians need to explain why they follow Jesus and not the Buddha or Confucius or Krishna or Muhammed. This evangelical theology of religions addresses the problem of truth and revelation, and takes seriously the normative claims of other traditions. McDermott shows readers what Christians can learn from world religions without sacrificing the finality of Christ.
Author : Paul F. Knitter
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 18,12 MB
Release : 1985-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1608332020
Author : Mark Labberton
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 33,15 MB
Release : 2014-08-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0830896945
To live as followers of Jesus is the most urgent call upon God's people. Mark Labberton returns to the fundamental dimensions of human life, identifying universal issues in a particular context of people, time and place. Called points the way forward for Christians who want to rediscover their calling to be agents of change in our world.
Author : Carl E. Braaten
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 44,4 MB
Release : 2000-08-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1579104630
With increasing awareness of the permanence of religious pluralism and increasing acceptance of other religions as valid ways to God, some theologians have argued that Christianity needs to abandon its traditional, biblical claim that Jesus is the unique, normative, decisive and final self-revelation of God and the salvation of the world. Braaten's response is an unequivocal reassertion of the exclusive claim of the gospel. To do so, he surveys the range of current options and dives into questions of the uniqueness of Christ, the absoluteness of Christianity, and the universality of salvation. Working with concepts of justification, eschatology, and Trinity, Braaten affirms that the gospel relativizes other religions. The gospel, however, also relativizes Christianity. Thus Christianity's strong claims for Christ need to be tempered by acknowledging that Christians do not know beforehand the final outcome of God's unfolding plan for the world. Although not all will agree, this book is an important call to Christian conscience from a theologian who sees Christian theology teetering on the brink of confusion.
Author : Paul Hedges
Publisher : Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 36,82 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0334041155
A reader designed to work on courses concerned with World Religions, Interfaith Dialogue and Interfaith Encounter.
Author : Harold Netland
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 25,97 MB
Release : 2001-08-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830815524
Harold Netland traces the emergence of the pluralistic ethos that challenges Christian faith and mission, interacting heavily with philosopher John Hick and providing a framework for developing a comprehensive evangelical theology of religions.