Christianity encountering world religions: the practice of mission in the twenty-first century

Description

In this major work, two world religion and mission experts present a new relational model for Christians interacting with people of other faiths.;pt. 1. Context, text and pre-texts -- Context: the world of religion today -- Text: what the Bible says -- Pre-texts: theology and personality -- pt. 2. Practices: Beyond competition and cooperation -- Universality: reaching out to all, including Christians -- Fellowship: Belonging precedes believing -- Localization: focusing on questions and concerns of the local community -- Commitment: holding ideas with conviction; acting decisively on those ideas; not letting those ideas be divisive -- Freedom: honoring the principle of religious choice -- Effectiveness: allowing the context to determine the form of witness -- Consistency: striving for consistency between methods and goals -- Variety: communicating the Gospel in many forms -- Respect: not disparaging others in order to champion your own; not disparaging your own in order to respect others -- Charity: loving those to whom we witness -- Missional ecumenicity: practicing mission as the joint project of the church -- Jesus, mission innovator: Jesus's model of giftive mission -- pt. 3. Method: how do we do it -- The spiral of knowledge acquisition: learning about new cultures and new religions -- Experiencing: the influence of our personal histories -- Bracketing: putting convictions on hold -- Encountering: learning from a new culture and religion -- Evaluating: appraising the new culture and religion from a Christian viewpoint -- Integrating : reshaping our own views and mission practices -- pt. 4. Giftive Mission -- Metaphors for mission -- The four gifts -- Giftive misssion -- Appendix. Biblical interreligious encounters.