Christianity at the Religious Roundtable: Evangelicalism in Conversation with Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam
Overview
Can evangelicals learn from world religions? While evangelicals have extensive experience with other religions through missionary endeavors, in today’s postmodern, pluralistic context, the nature of this experience is changing. Christ’s uniqueness and the truth of the Gospel are uncompromisable, but in our contemporary setting Christianity is faced with a different apologetic task than in ages past. Rather than being at the head of the table, Christianity now finds itself at a roundtable, dialoguing with competing faiths. Keenly aware of these shifts, Timothy Tennent offers Christianity at the Religious Roundtable. This book offers a focused treatment that engages doctrinal challenges to Christianity from Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam. Students of world religions and missions will appreciate Tennent’s attempt to stimulate serious dialogue with competing world faiths.
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- Engages doctrinal challenges to Christianity from Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam
- Includes theological discussions of modern evangelism
- Presents students and workers with a dialogue with competing world faiths
- Christianity and Hinduism
- Christianity and Buddhism
- Christianity and Islam
- Case Studies and Conclusion
Top Highlights
“In short, Brāhman is one, but contains within himself all of the plurality and differentiation of the universe” (Page 44)
“First, any propositional truth statements that appear in Christian theologies, such as ‘God is Almighty’ or ‘God is the Creator,’ will be relegated by the advaitin to the level of saguṇa, which is illusory and not ultimately real. Indeed, in the advaitin tradition, any attempt to define, describe, or set parameters concerning God is rejected and is met with the Upanishadic expression ‘neti, neti’ which means ‘not this, not this.’17 Therefore, revelation as we know it is never exact and precise, only approximate and general. Revelation does not make statements of facts or truths with clear boundaries; it only points to mysteries that transcend human description.” (Page 42)
“Finally, to call Hindus or Muslims or Buddhists anonymous Christians has long been regarded as an insult to those within these traditions. It is patronizing to tell a devout Hindu who worships Krishna that he or she is really worshipping Christ and is temporarily in an epistemological gap.” (Page 25)
“The text declares, ‘I indeed am this creation for I produced all this. Therefore, he became the creation.’7 There is clearly an identification between the Creator and the creation.” (Page 66)
“However, admitting the limitations of human language is quite different from concluding that all human language falls to the ground and cannot be used to speak about God at all. God has chosen to reveal himself in human language. Śaṅkara’s pessimism about the usefulness of human language is unwarranted.” (Page 52)
Drawing upon extensive intercultural and interreligious ministry experience as well as solid work in theology and comparative religions, Professor Tim Tennent has produced an important work that should take evangelical discussions about theology of religions to a new level. Tennent displays a refreshing blend of respect for and willingness to learn from other traditions along with a firm commitment to the gospel of Jesus Christ as truth for all people.
—Harold Netland, professor, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
A vigorous, clearly-written invitation to committed Christians to enter the thought-worlds of other people. With an approach interestingly modeled on Luther’s Table Talk, Tennent brings great but frequently neglected experimental thinkers of the past, such as Brahmabandhav Upadhyay and A. G. Hogg, to a roundtable discussion on issues very much up-to-date.
—Andrew Walls, honorary professor, University of Edinburgh
- Title: Christianity at the Religious Roundtable: Evangelicalism in Conversation with Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam
- Author: Timothy C. Tennent
- Publisher: Baker Academic
- Print Publication Date: 2002
- Logos Release Date: 2014
- Pages: 270
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Christianity and other religions; Christianity and other religions › Hinduism; Hinduism › Relations--Christianity; Christianity and other religions › Buddhism; Buddhism › Relations--Christianity; Christianity and other religions › Islam; Islam › Relations--Christianity
- ISBNs: 9781441249180, 0801026024, 9780801026027, 1441249184
- Resource ID: LLS:CHRLGRNDTBL
- Resource Type: Monograph
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