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Today's cosmopolitan, multicultural, and multifaith environments
call for new approaches to apologetics. The world still needs the
good news of Jesus Christ, but to relate the transcultural gospel
to diverse and ever-changing contexts, we must free Christian
apologetics from dominant Western habits of mind ill-suited to
interreligious dialogue. We must listen and speak with both
humility and confidence. Benno van den Toren and Kang-San Tan
provide a global, intercultural introduction to Christian
apologetics. They present a model of apologetics as crosscultural
dialogue and accountable witness, then explore how it plays out in
relation to specific contexts and the major world
religions-including primal religions, Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam,
secularism, and late-modern spiritualities. Building on recent
developments in apologetics and missiology, as well as their
experience teaching internationally in Europe, Asia, and Africa,
Van den Toren and Tan offer an approach that is conversational,
patient, holistic, and embodied. Filled with examples from
Scripture and real-world experiences, Humble Confidence gives
readers a travel guide to help find the most effective avenues for
true dialogue in their own settings.
The rise of Asian mission poses important questions to the global
Church: How can we best relate to these burgeoning Asian mission
movements? What can we learn from them? What models of partnership,
mutual support and resourcing are appropriate-on both sides? This
book presents the papers from three Asian Mission Consultations
held at Redcliffe College in Gloucester between 2008 and 2010,
which brought together mission leaders and practitioners from Asian
and non-Asian missions to interact with these questions.
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