The gospel and pluralism today : reassessing Lesslie Newbigin in the 21st century / / edited by Scott W. Sunquist and Amos Yong

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910460715203321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Downers Grove, Illinois : , : IVP Books, , 2015; ©2015
• ISBN: 0-8308-9899-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (191 p.)
• Collana: Missiological Engagements
• Disciplina: 261
• Soggetti: Christianity and culture; Christianity - 20th century; Apologetics; Missions - Theory; Evangelistic work - Philosophy; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Title Page""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Abbreviation Note""; ""1 Introduction: The Legacy of Newbigin for Mission to the West""; ""The Book: The Gospel in a Pluralist Society""; ""The Conference""; ""This Book""; ""2 Newbigin in His Time""; ""Student Christian Movement""; ""India""; ""IMC Tambaram Assembly 1938""; ""Training for Ministry in India""; ""Church Union""; ""Lesslie Newbigin as Bishop""; ""The Household of God""; ""Interlude""; ""Unfinished Agenda""; ""The Gospel in a Pluralist Society""; ""3 Newbigin's Theology of Mission and Culture After Twenty-Five Years: Attending to the "Subject" of Mission""""Encounters with Newbigin""; ""Post-Vatican II Catholicism and Newbigin""; ""Newbigin's Central Orientation""; ""Newbigin, Mission and Christianity as Christomorphic""; ""Newbigin and Aggiornamento""; ""A Catholic Appreciation of Newbigin's Theology of Mission""; ""Toward an Inconclusive Conclusion""; ""4 Community and Witness in Transition: Newbigin's Missional Ecclesiology Between Modernity and Postmodernity""; ""Introduction: Setting Newbigin in the Context of ; Postmodernism""; ""Newbigin's View of Postmodernity""""Missional Response to the Culture in Transition Between Modernity and Late Modernity""; ""In Lieu of Conclusion: Seed thought for Further Reflections""; ""5 Holistic Theological Method and Theological Epistemology: Performing Newbigin's Plurality of Sources in the Pluralist Context""; ""Newbigin's Theological Method""; ""Theological Epistemology""; ""Performing Newbigin's Plurality of Sources in the Pluralist Context""; ""6 Honoring True Otherness in a Still-Antipluralist Culture""; ""Homogeneity: "The Specter at the Banquet of Modernity"""; ""Perichoresis""""Tracing over the Polanyian Lines in Newbigin""; ""SFI and IFMs: Polanyian Epistemology and Its Respect for the Other""; ""Covenant Epistemology""; ""Implications for Church and Mission""; ""Conclusion""; ""7 Pluralism, Secularism and Pentecost: Newbigin-ings for Missio Trinitatis in a New Century""; ""The Spirit and Mission Theology: Expanding Newbigin's Reach""; ""Pentecost and Modern Science/Technology: Toward a Pneumatological Missiology""; ""8 Evangelism in a Pluralistic Society: The Newbigin Vision""; ""Newbigin's Diagnosis of Evangelism in the West""; ""The Message""; ""The Messenger""""The Method""; ""Equipping the Messenger for the Method""; ""A Model for Evangelistic Equipping Using Newbigin's Embassy Framework""; ""9 What Does It Mean for a Congregation to Be a Hermeneutic?""; ""The Background Problem""; ""Hermeneutic as Visibility""; """Special Visibility" and the Question of History""; ""History and Mission""; ""Six Characteristics of the Church as Hermeneutic of the Gospel""; ""Conclusion""; ""10 Asian Perspectives on Twenty-First-Century Pluralism""; ""What Christianity Has to Offer Pluralistic Asia""; ""What Pluralistic Asia Has to Offer Christianity""