Beyond the Impasse: Toward a Pneumatological Theology of Religions (Biblia.com)

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With scholarly rigor and intellectual acumen, Beyond the Impasse takes seriously and appreciatively the diversity of the work of the universal Spirit in the cultures and religious communities of the world. Amos Yong positions his work fully within the evangelical tradition, but is richly informed by his Pentecostal roots and context. He sets this Pentecostal-evangelical theology of religions in...

In another sense, then, a Christian theology of religions is also a Christian theology of mission.8 The goal here is the translation or contextualization of the gospel in the cultural-linguistic idiom of the religious other, be it Buddhist, Hindu, or Muslim. Of course, there is always a fine line between contextualization and syncretism. Yet this line needs to be recognized as a dynamic one, to be renegotiated at every turn as Christians encounter religious others afresh. A robust Christian theology

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