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1 online resource |
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Introduction / Wilbert R. Shenk -- Part 1: Biblical and patristics perspectives. "Yhwh our God Yhwh One" : religious plurality and the Old Testament / John Goldingay -- Scripture in the context of religious plurality : aspects of the patristic witness and their analogies in contemporary Africa / Kwame Bediako -- Part 2: The consequences of Christendom before 1800. Christians, social location, and religious plurality / Wilbert R. Shenk -- Diversity and the challenge of difference : historical perspective on the Muslim world and Western impact / Lamin Sanneh -- Religious plurality in South Africa : some historical perspectives / Gerald J. Pillay -- Religious plurality in East Asia before 1800 : the encounter between Christianity and Asian religions / Peter C. Phan -- Part 3: Contemporary and global perspectives. Religious plurality and the Christian mission in the people's Republic of China / Kim-Kwong Chan, Daniel H. Bays -- Christianity in interaction with the primal religions of the world : a historical and global perspective / Gillian Mary Bediako -- At the crossroads : contemporary Indonesian Christianity amid primal religions / Martin L. Sinaga -- Muslim responses to plurality in the last 100 years / J. Dudley Woodberry -- Hinduism in the twentieth century / Paul Cornelius -- Keeping faith : immigration, religion, and the unmaking of a global culture / Jehu J. Hanciles -- The future of pluralisms--and why they likely will fail / Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen -- Afterword: Looking back with an eye to the conversational future / Richard J. Plantinga |
| Summary |
Over the past two centuries the Christian faith has spread to all continents. Although more global than ever, Christians are religious minorities in most societies. Religious freedom is hardly universal. In the past fifty years, millions of people have been uprooted from their traditional homelands in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Some have emigrated to Western Europe and North America. The West has become the scene of cultural, linguistic, and religious variety on a scale unimagined in 1900. Today, the full range of faiths and religious practices from all continents are present in Europe and North America. Christians are challenged to come to terms with this changed situation. These developments have intensified religious plurality. Christians all over the world are being urged to understand and engage with this new situation. This volume highlights this new reality and specifies some sources for engagement, not least among them the Judeo-Christian scriptures--fundamental to all 'Christianities'--that emerged out of religious plural contexts. On the basis of their faith in the Triune God disclosed in this text, all followers of Jesus Christ must interact with these opportunities in today's radically context-sensitive world |
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Christianity and other religions.
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Religious pluralism.
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RELIGION -- Christian Life -- Social Issues.
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- General.
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Christianity and other religions
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Religious pluralism
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Shenk, Wilbert R
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Plantinga, Richard J
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| ISBN |
9781498282666 |
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1498282660 |
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