TH191 Missional Approach to World Religions
Overview
In Missional Approach to World Religions (TH191), Mike Goheen provides a framework for understanding and analyzing world religions. He discusses the theology of religions and gives an overview of three major religions: Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam. Goheen examines the heart or core behind the beliefs and practices of these religions and discusses how Christians might begin to dialogue with people of these faiths.
Top Highlights
“‘Religious plurality poses a problem for Christian churches and Christian theology. This is not a new question, but in recent years it has acquired a new significance and urgency. No other issue presents more challenge,’ he says, ‘than the issue of Christian faith and other faiths.’” (source)
“I would define missionary encounter as a non-coercive encounter of ultimate and comprehensive religious commitments and ways of life—a non-coercive encounter between ultimate and comprehensive religious commitments that gives shape to a way of life.” (source)
“Number one, the Christian faith is not a small, private, spiritual area of life, rather it is a comprehensive worldview; a comprehensive vision; a way of life.” (source)
“Secondly, we are going to then sketch a biblical theology of religions” (source)
“In the West, we put religion over in the private, in the personal category, whereas all the rest of the world understands religion as a comprehensive worldview that shapes the entirety of culture. So Hinduism, Islam, for example, this is not to be slaughtered over in the private realm. It is shaping the entirety of social and political and economic life, and therefore it puts Christianity in a much more, in a situation that is much more delicate. This issue is an urgent one.” (source)
- Title: TH191 Missional Approach to World Religions
- Author: Michael Goheen
- Series: Logos Mobile Education
- Publisher: Lexham Press
- Print Publication Date: 2014
- Logos Release Date: 2014
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Courseware
- Subjects: Religions; Christianity and other religions; Missions; Education › Religions
- Resource ID: LLS:TH191GOHEEN
- Resource Type: Courseware Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-05-04T00:32:54Z
Dr. Michael W. Goheen, professor of missiology at Calvin Theological Seminary, served as the Geneva Chair of Worldview Studies at Trinity Western University in Langley, British Columbia, and teaching fellow in mission studies at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia.
He has taught worldview, biblical theology, mission, and world Christianity at Redeemer University College and Dordt College. He began his professional life as a church planter and pastor in the Toronto area. He is also recognized as a leading scholar on the thought of Lesslie Newbigin.
Dr. Goheen has authored several books, including A Light to the Nations: The Missional Church in the Biblical Story (Baker, 2010) and As the Father Has Sent Me, I am Sending You: J.E. Lesslie Newbigin’s Missionary Ecclesiology (Zoetermeer, 2000). He also coauthored the best-selling Drama of Scripture: Finding Our Place in the Biblical Story (Baker, 2004), Living at the Crossroads: An Introduction to Christian Worldview (Baker, 2008), and The True Story of the Whole World: Finding Your Place in the Biblical Drama (Faith Alive, 2009). He has also coedited two volumes on globalization and the gospel, and on the unity of the church.
Dr. Goheen lives in the Vancouver area where he is minister of preaching at New West Christian Reformed Church. He’s been married to his wife, Marnie, for 33 years and has four married children and four grandchildren.