Christian Witness in Pluralistic Contexts in the Twenty-First Century

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"This volume is not a set of textbook answers on how to witness to Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims, and people with other religions based on simple formulas. It is the wrestlings, affirmations, and testimonies of those who have been deeply involved in ministries to people of other religious faiths and have thought deeply about the issues religious pluralism raises." - Paul G. Hiebert, Professor Emeritus, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School

Sujets

• Religion
• Christianisme
• Philosophie et théologie
• Growth
• Christian Church

Informations

• Publié par: William Carey Publishing
• Date de parution: 15 septembre 2004
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781645080091
• Langue: English

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CHRISTIAN WITNESS IN
PLURALISTIC CONTEXTS IN THE 21st CENTURY

OTHER TITLES IN THE EMS SERIES
No. 1 Scripture and Strategy: The Use of the Bible in Postmodern Church and Mission David J. Helsselgrave
No. 2 Christianity and the Religions: A Biblical Theology of World Religions Edward Rommen and Harold A. Netland, eds.
No. 3 Spiritual Power and Missions: Raising the Issues Edward Rommen, Ed. (out of print)
No. 4 Missiology and the Social Sciences: Contributions, Cautions, and the Conclusions Edward Rommen and Gary Corwin, eds.
No. 5 The Holy Spirit and Mission Dynamics C. Douglas McConnell, ed.
No. 6 Reaching the Resistant: Barriers and Bridges for Mission J. Dudley Woodberry, ed.
No. 7 Teaching Them Obedience in All Things: Equipping for the Twenty-first Century Edward J. Elliston, ed.
No. 8 Working Together with God to Shape the New Millennium: Opportunities and Limitations Kenneth B. Mulholland and Gary Corwin, eds.
No. 9 Caring for the Harvest Force in the New Millennium Tom A. Steffen and F. Douglas Pennoyer, eds.
No. 10 Between Past and Future: Evangelical Mission Entering the Twenty-first Century Jonathan J. Bonk, ed.

CHRISTIAN WITNESS IN
PLURALISTIC CONTEXTS IN THE 21st CENTURY
Edited by Enoch Wan
Evangelical Missiological Society Series Number 11


Copyright 2004 by Evangelical Missiological Society www.missiology.org/EMS
All rights reserved . No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means—for example, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording—without the prior written permission of the publisher. The only exceptions are brief quotations in printed reviews.
EMS Series No. 11
Published by William Carey Library 1605 E. Elizabeth Street Pasadena, CA 91104 | www.missionbooks.org
William Carey Library is a ministry of Frontier Ventures Pasadena, CA | www.frontierventures.org
Digital eBook release Primalogue 2017 ISBN: 978-1-64508-009-1 (ePub)

Dedicated to Kenneth B. Mulholland
Colleague, Educator, Friend, Scholar, Missionary Former President of EMS

Contents
Author Profiles
Forward Paul Hiebert
Introduction Enoch Wan
I. THE CONTEXT OF MAJOR NON-CHRISTIAN RELIGIONS
1. A Missiological Approach to Non-Christian Religions
Ralph Winter
2. The Christian Response to Islam
J. Dudley Woodberry
3. Christology in the Qur ‘an and its Implications for Witness to Muslims
Timothy C. Tennent
4. Context-specific Theological Reflections: Premillenialism between Iraq and a Hard Place.
Mark A. Harlan
5. The Christian Response to Hinduism
Paul G. Hiebert.
A Mission Executive’s Response
Joel Mathai
6. The Christian Response to Buddhism
Alex G. Smith
A Response
Patrick Cate
II. THE CONTEXT OF FOLK RELIGIONS
7. Evangelizing Folk Religionists
Gailyn Van Rheenen
8. The Christian Response to Chinese Folk Religion
Enoch Wan
9. The Christian Response to African Traditional Religion
Tite Tiénou
III. THE CONTEXT OF NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS
10. Does the Church Produce New Religious Movements?
Cecil Stalnaker
11. Transforming Evangelical Responses to New Religion(s): Missions and Counter-Cult in Partnership
John W. Morehead
End Notes

Author Profiles
Patrick Cate is a graduate of Wheaton College. Pat also graduated from Dallas Theological Seminary and has a Ph.D. in Islamics from Hartford Seminary. Pat and his wife, Mary Ann, served in Iran from 1974 to 1979 and Egypt from 1984 to 1989. Pat’s home office career began when he served as the New Personnel Director from 1980 to 1984. He assumed the presidency of Christar in September of 1989.
Mark A. Harlan has served with Christar for two decades. Currently he is Associate Professor of Islamic and Christian Studies, at William Carey International University, and an adjunct faculty at Biola University, Fuller Theological Seminary, and Nasi Ibrahim College. He worked eight years as Academic Dean and Professor at the Jordan Evangelical Theological Seminary in Amman, Jordan, after eight years in church planting in another Arab country. He has published articles in Christianity Today and the International Journal of Frontier Missions .
Paul and Frances Hiebert served as missionaries training village pastors and evangelists in South India with the Mennonite Brethren Mission Board. Paul has served as Professor of Mission Anthropology and South Asian Studies at the School of World Mission, Fuller Theological Seminary, and at the School of Mission and Evangelism, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He has published widely in the fields of missions and anthropology.
Joel Mathai is Vice President for New Personnel with Christar (formerly known as International Missions Inc.). His family served in a church planting ministry in North India among Hindus and Muslims from 1989 to 1997. During that period he helped establish two churches in south Delhi. Joel received his doctorate from Grace Theological Seminary in Intercultural studies with his professional research project in Hinduism. He has widely taught in missions classes and is a sought out speaker in Eastern religions.
John Morehead is the associate director of the California office of Watchman Fellowship, Inc., a national educational, apologetic, and evangelistic ministry addressing new religious movements. He also serves on the board of directors of Evangelical Ministries to New Religions, and is the co-founder and co-editor of the Internet publication Sacred Tribes: Journal of Christian Missions to New Religious Movements. Mr. Morehead has contributed toward a number of projects concerning new religions, including the International Journal of Frontier Missions, the forthcoming Baker Dictionary of Cults, a revised edition of the forthcoming Kingdom of the Cults, and is co-editing and writing chapters for an academic book on mission to new religions under contract with Kregel Publishers.
Gailyn Van Rheenen served as missionary to East Africa for 14 years, taught missions and evangelism at Abilene Christian University for 17 years, and is currently Director of Mission Alive, an organization dedicated to training talented, motivated Christian leaders as evangelists and church planters in urban contexts. His books Missions: Biblical Foundations and Contemporary Perspectives, Communicating Christ in Animistic Contexts, The Status of Missions: A Nationwide Survey of Churches of Christ are widely used by both students and practitioners of missions. His web site (www.Missiology.org) provides “resources for missions education” for local church leaders, field missionaries, and teachers of missions.
Alexander Garnett Smith is Minister-At-Large for OMF International, under which he has served for forty years. Alex served in Thailand for twenty years in pioneer church planting, training national leaders, coordinating field evangelism and directing the Thailand Church Growth Committee. For the next eighteen years he was Northwest Director for OMF USA. He was adjunct faculty at Multnomah Bible College and Seminary for eighteen years and still teaches courses of Perspectives on Mission for the US Center for World Mission. He authored two books in Thai. His English titles include Siamese Gold: A History of Church Growth in Thailand, Strategy to Multiply Rural Churches: A Central Thai Case Study, The Gospel Facing Buddhist Cultures, Multiplying Churches Through Prayer Cell Evangelism: A Manual for Church Planting Movements, Buddhism Through Christian Eyes, and Insights for Frontier Missions to Theravada Buddhists (IJFM). He was the initial Northwest Vice President of the Evangelical Missiological Society and Buddhist track Chairman for Regent University’s Unreached Peoples Consultation.
Cecil Stalnaker is Associate Professor of Missions and Evangelism and Director of Field Education at Tyndale Theological Seminary (1997 to present), located near Amsterdam in Holland. He has been a missionary with Greater Europe Mission since 1976. Prior to Tyndale he taught at the French-speaking Institut Biblique Beige in Belgium as well as serving in church planting. He received his Ph.D. from the Evangelische Theologische Faculteit in Heverlee/Leuven, Belgium, studying missiology.
Timothy C. Tennent is the Associate Professor of World Missions and Director of Missions Programs at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. For the last seventeen years he has also served as an annual visiting professor of missions at the Luther W. New, Jr. Theological College in Dehra Dun, India. He is the author of several books, including Building Christianity on Indian Foundations and Christianity at the Religious Roundtable: Evangelicalism in Conversation with Hinduism, Buddhism and Islam.
Tite Tiénou is Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (TEDS) Academic Dean, chair of the Department of Mission and Evangelism, and Professor of Theology of Mission. Tiénou earned the Doctor of Philosophy in intercultural studies and the Master of Arts in Missiology at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California. His areas of expertise include missions, theology, and the church in Africa. He resides in the Chicago area.
Enoch Y. Wan previously served on the faculty in North America (founder and director of the Centre for Intercultural Studies at Canadian Theological Seminary; founder and director of the Ph.D. Intercultural Studies Program at Reformed Theological Seminary) and overseas (Alliance Bible Seminary, Hong Kong; Alliance Biblical Seminary, Manila; Alliance Theological College, Canberra). He spent years in pastoral and church planting ministries in New York, Toronto, Vancouver and Hong Kong, prior to his current appointment as Chair, Division of Intercultural Studies, and Director, Doctor of Missiology Program, at Western Seminary, Portland, Oregon. He is the founder/editor of the e-journal www.GlobalMissiology.net and his publications include Mission Resource Manual and Missions Within Reach, several books in Chinese on Sino-theology,