So what might we say of revelation in other religions? In an era past, the Scottish missionary to India John Nicol Farquhar famously championed the idea that Christ fulfills the best in Hinduism,[46] an idea that could be applied to other religions and their sacred texts. At the other end of the spectrum there is …
Tag: asian theology
Quote on Transformation and Holy Scripture
.... lA] scripture can function directly by itself operating as the instrument of transformation. It is “as if divinity indwelt the words and caused them, through articulation of them, to bring about altered states of being.” Here, scripture becomes “incantatory or sacramental.” Typically, this is how the shrŭti canon of Hinduism works, as also the …
Asian Christian Theology? (Part II)
Years ago I wrote an article on Asian Christian Theology, where I expressed some questions or concerns about how some consider this. (You can read it by CLICKING HERE). Recently I was in a meeting where exploration of supporting Asian Christian Theology books was explored. Some questions came up that commonly come up when this …
Is Asian Christian Theology a Thing?
A couple of common, and related, themes in missions today are "contextualization" and "self-theologization." The first says that to make the Word of God accessible to a culture, it must be translated into that culture, not only in language, but in symbology (in its many forms) as well. To do this, one attempts to minimize …