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By Timothy C. Tennent
It’s no mystery that the heart of Christianity has shifted from the West to the worldwide South and East. whereas the truths of the Christian religion are common, new contexts convey new questions, new understandings, and new expressions. What does this suggest for theology? Is the Christian religion not just culturally translatable, but in addition theologically translatable? Timothy Tennent solutions this query with a convincing certain. Theological mirrored image is alive and good within the majority international church, and those new views have to be heard, thought of, and taken into dialog with Western theologians. international theology could make us conscious of our personal blind spots and biases. as a result of its mostly conservative stance, worldwide theology has a lot to provide towards the revitalization of Western Christianity. Tennent examines conventional theological different types in dialog with theologians from around the globe, making this quantity precious for college students, pastors, missionaries, and theologians alike.
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For example, the largest church in Britain is a Pentecostal church led by a Nigerian pastor. Jenkins, The New Faces of Christianity , 1. 36. Diane B. Stinton, Jesus of Africa: Voices of Contemporary African Christology (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2004), 252. Despite the title, the result is neither Christian nor systematic. 47 – 48) and replaces it with an emphasis on human experience and the common phenomenology of world religions. Their book neither reflects the actual faith of Majority World Christians nor is faithful to historic Christian confessions.
Like the patristic writers of long ago, today’s theologians must be engaged apologists with a stronger mission focus and global orientation. Indeed, today’s students preparing to be tomorrow’s pastors and church leaders can no longer afford to study the doctrine of God in a vacuum, apart from these new global realities. I intend in this chapter to explore this question, which, unfortunately, has all too often drawn more heat than light. As will become evident, how we respond to the question is largely determined by understanding precisely what is meant in the first place.
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