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Christianity is not only a global but also an intercultural
phenomenon. The diversity of world Christianity is evident not
merely outside our borders but even within our own neighborhoods.
Over the past half century theologians and missiologists have
addressed this reality by developing local and contextual
theologies and by exploring issues like contextualization,
inculturation, and translation. In recent years these various
trajectories have coalesced into a new field called intercultural
theology. Bringing together missiology, religious studies, social
science research, and Christian theology, the field of
intercultural theology is a fresh attempt to rethink the discipline
of theology in light of the diversity and pluriformity of
Christianity today. Henning Wrogemann, one of the leading
missiologists and scholars of religion in Europe, has written the
most comprehensive textbook on the subject of Christianity and
culture today. In three volumes his Intercultural Theology provides
an exhaustive account of the history, theory, and practice of
Christian mission. Volume one introduces the concepts of culture
and context, volume two surveys theologies of mission both past and
present, and volume three explores theologies of religion and
interreligious relationships. In this first volume on intercultural
hermeneutics, Wrogemann introduces the term "intercultural
theology" and investigates what it means to understand another
cultural context. In addition to surveying different hermeneutical
theories and concepts of culture, he assesses how intercultural
understanding has taken place throughout the history of Christian
mission. Wrogemann also provides an extensive discussion of
contextual theologies with a special focus on African theologies.
Intercultural Theology is an indispensable resource for all
people—especially students, pastors, and scholars—that explores
the defining issues of Christian identity and practice in the
context of an increasingly intercultural and interreligious world.
Missiological Engagements charts interdisciplinary and innovative
trajectories in the history, theology, and practice of Christian
mission, featuring contributions by leading thinkers from both the
Euro-American West and the majority world whose missiological
scholarship bridges church, academy, and society.
The gospel is for every tribe, tongue, and nation (Revelation 7:9),
but there is no single biblical or theological model for the
relationship between the gospel and these diverse cultures. Indeed,
every suggested approach carries its own range of philosophical and
theological commitments that all too often remain unexamined.
Contextualization is fraught with challenges-yet wrestling with
questions of context is essential for how we understand mission,
theology, and the embodiment of the Christian faith. German
missiology has engaged these questions in a variety of ways that
can both inform and critique Anglo-American traditions. In this
compilation and analysis, John Flett and Henning Wrogemann
translate and comment on a core thread of German missiological
works, explaining both their historical and current significance.
Drawn from journals and books across a century of academic
discourse, these classic writings trace developments from Gustav
Warneck, the father of contemporary missiology, through key
thinkers such as Karl Hartenstein, who coined the term missio Dei,
down to twenty-first century discussions of intercultural
hermeneutics. Along the way they reveal advances, mistakes, and
changing definitions as German missiologists interacted with the
cultural and political realities of their time. This longitudinal
study, showcasing many texts available in English for the first
time, tackles the history and dynamics of contextualization head-on
and sheds new light on the state of missiology today. We are
reminded, Flett and Wrogemann argue, that we must keep working to
honor difference within the worldwide Christian community as
necessary to the fullness of our being in Christ. Missiological
Engagements charts interdisciplinary and innovative trajectories in
the history, theology, and practice of Christian mission, featuring
contributions by leading thinkers from both the Euro-American West
and the majority world whose missiological scholarship bridges
church, academy, and society.
Ten Outstanding Books in Mission Studies, World Christianity and
Intercultural Theology for 2019 — International Bulletin of
Mission Research (IBMR) Christianity is not only a global but also
an intercultural phenomenon. In this third volume of his
three-volume Intercultural Theology, Henning Wrogemann proposes
that we need to go beyond currently trending theologies of mission
to formulate both a theory of interreligious relations and a
related but methodologically independent theology of interreligious
relations. Migratory movements are contributing to an ongoing
process of religious pluralization in societies that tended to be
more religiously homogenous in the past. Interreligious platforms,
movements, and organizations are growing in number. Meanwhile,
everyday life continues to be characterized by very different modes
of interreligious cooperation. Coming to a better understanding of
such modes is a major concern for societies with high levels of
religious and cultural plurality. Wrogemann's conviction is that
much would be achieved if we posed new and different questions.
When it comes to interreligious relations, what is significant, and
what is meaningful? What exactly is a dialogue? Which factors are
at play when people from different cultural and religious
traditions come into contact with each other as physical beings in
real-life situations? What about the different images of the self
and of the other? Which interests and hidden motives underlie which
claims to validity? Exploring these questions and more in masterful
scope and detail, Wrogemann's work will richly inform the study of
interreligious relations. Missiological Engagements charts
interdisciplinary and innovative trajectories in the history,
theology, and practice of Christian mission, featuring
contributions by leading thinkers from both the Euro-American West
and the majority world whose missiological scholarship bridges
church, academy, and society.
Christianity is not only a global but also an intercultural
phenomenon. In this second volume of his three-volume Intercultural
Theology, Henning Wrogemann turns to theologies of mission. Mission
theologies, he argues, are found in a wide range of implicit as
well as explicit forms, from the practice of Christian presence by
a Pakistani Christian among a marginalized people to the published
deliberations of mission scholars in the West. The task of
intercultural theology is to investigate and promote awareness of
the variety of culture- and context-specific theologies of mission.
From Warneck to Bosch, from Edinburgh to Lausanne to Busan,
Wrogemann provides an overview of the theological underpinnings,
rationalizations, and visions for mission and its practice. Tracing
developments across a range of Christian traditions, movements,
themes, and regions of the globe, from Europe and North America to
sub-Saharan Africa, Wrogemann presents us with an array of mission
theologies across the scope of the modern missionary movement. This
rich conspectus is rounded out with the doxological dimension of
mission and the varied facets of oikoumenism. Masterful in its
scope and detail, this volume will richly inform the study of
missiology and global Christianity. And it is essential reading for
doing theology in a multicultural key. In a day when the church in
the West struggles to understand and appreciate its missionary
legacy and calling, Wrogemann's work sparkles with its deeply
informed insights and inspiring vision. Missiological Engagements
charts interdisciplinary and innovative trajectories in the
history, theology, and practice of Christian mission, featuring
contributions by leading thinkers from both the Euro-American West
and the majority world whose missiological scholarship bridges
church, academy, and society.
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