Crossroad Discourses Between Christianity And Culture

Crossroad Discourses between Christianity and Culture
Table of Contents
PREFACE
Introductory Essay: Theology of Culture, Secularity, and Plurality
PART I: CHRISTIANITY INTERACTING WITH WESTERN AND CONTEMPORARY CULTURE
	1. Modern Culture: General
		The Background and Nature of the Deep Changes in the Religious Realities in Modern Europe
		The Concept of Culture in Abraham Kuyper, Herman Bavinck, and Karl Barth
	2. Faith and Reason
		The Role of Faith in Science and in Religion
		Christian Faith and Reason: A Hermeneutical Approach
	3. Worldviews
		Amor Mundi in a (Post)Liberal Era: The Relevance of an Arendtian Theme for Christian Self Understanding Today
		Equality, Difference, and Justice
		Business Ethics and Intrinsic Motivation in a Pluralist World
	4. Society and Politics
		Renewal of Civilization: Toward Justice and Peace
		Populism: A Blessing in Disguise for Democracy?
		Poverty, Oppression, and Christian Faith
		The Public Role of Churches in Present Democratic South Africa
	5. Esthetics
		Imagination and Art in the Christian Faith: On Imagination and Art in the Church
		Language, Literature, and Transcendence: The Contribution of F.R. Leavis
		Readiness and Timing: The Early Modern Virtues of Hamlet’s Providential Christianity
PART II: CHRISTIANITY INTERACTING WITH WORLD RELIGIONS AND TRADITIONS
	1. African Traditions
		Indigenous Spirituality and Sustainable Development: A Critical Appraisal of African Renaissance Rhetoric
		African Philosophy, Contextualisation, Multiculturalism
	2. Hinduism
		Untouchables, Christians, and Hindus: How the Sacred World Order is Preserved and Renounced
		Contemporary Christian Hindu Relations in Britain and the Netherlands
	3. Judaism
		Superseded, Obstructive, or Crucial? Christian Views of Judaism and its Sacred Texts
		Recent Developments in Christian Jewish Dialogue
	4. Buddhism
		Sympathy and Empathy: The Compassionate Bodhisattva and the Love of Christ
		Christian and Buddhist Spiritualities: Their Differences and Complementarities
	5. Islam
		Present-Day Europe and Islam in Encounter: Emerging European Islam and its Dialogue Partners
		The Council of Churches in the Netherlands and its Encounter with Islam
	6. Encounter with China and with New Religiosities
		Proximity and Distance China and the Christian West: An Essay in Intercultural Philosophy
		Christian Views of the New Religiosities of the Western World
PART III: CHRISTIANITY INTERACTING WITH ITSELF
	1. World Council of Churches
		Recent Ecclesiological Developments in the World Council of Churches: Continuity or Discontinuity?
		Conversion in the Ecumenical Debate: Great Joy or Great Discomfort?
	2. World Alliance of Reformed Churches
		Confessio and Traditio: A Reformed Approach in Dialogue with the Lutheran Tradition
		Christianity and Culture: WARC at the Millennium
	3. The Wider Ecumenism
		Intercultural Theology as the Integration of Ecumenism and Missiology: The Example of Current Latin American Christology
		God Has No Favourites: Ecumenism and Interreligious Dialogue. The Unity of God’s Creation
INDEX OF SUBJECTS
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