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This is a call for a new understanding of apologetics, moving away
from appeals to tran-cultural rationality, arguing for a new form
of cross-cultural dialogue. Christian apologetics is in crisis. Old
concepts do no longer hold and post-modern development pose new
questions. Benno van den Toren argues for an apologetic witness
that is an exercise in cross-cultural dialogue aimed at persuading
our conversation partners of the relevance of a life centred on the
reality revealed in Jesus Christ. Some significant steps have been
made toward the development of such a new apologetic practice. The
aim of this book is to provide theological and philosophical basis
for a new paradigm for Christian apologetic dialogue with our
post-modern and multi-cultural world and to work out its practical
relevance.
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.
A multinational team of scholars focuses on the interface between
Christian doctrine and evolutionary scientific research, exploring
the theological consequences for the doctrines of original sin, the
image of God, and the problem of evil. Moving past the
misperception that science and faith are irreconcilable, the book
compares alternative models to those that have generated
faith-science conflict and equips students, pastors, and anyone
interested in origins to develop a critical and scientifically
informed orthodox faith.
This is a call for a new understanding of apologetics, moving away
from appeals to trans-cultural rationality, arguing for a new form
of cross-cultural dialogue. Christian apologetics is in crisis. Old
concepts do no longer hold and post-modern development pose new
questions. Benno van den Toren argues for an apologetic witness
that is an exercise in cross-cultural dialogue aimed at persuading
our conversation partners of the relevance of a life centred on the
reality revealed in Jesus Christ. Some significant steps have been
made toward the development of such a new apologetic practice. The
aim of this book is to provide theological and philosophical basis
for a new paradigm for Christian apologetic dialogue with our
post-modern and multi-cultural world and to work out its practical
relevance.
This title offers a number of new approaches relevant to talking
about theology and God in this century. Professor Van den Toren has
sought to overcome old practices of evangelical theology, which are
often compared with Catholic and liberal theology.
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