Gospel in the Western Context
Subtitle: A Missiological Reading of Christology in Dialogue with Hendrikus Berkhof and Colin Gunton
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 425
ISBN-13: 9789004386471
Subjects: Jesus christ, person and offices; Missions
Description: In The Gospel in the Western Context, Gert-Jan Roest focuses on discerning a Western contextual gospel, an endeavour that is very relevant to the current state of Christianity in the postmodern and post-Christendom West. After giving an in-depth analysis and synthesis of how Hendrikus Berkhof and Colin Gunton read the Western context and contextualize their Christology, he develops a gospel-centred model for reading the context. Meanwhile, he makes a creative and much-needed attempt to connect the two disciplines of systematic theology and missiology and convincingly shows that both disciplines cannot only enrich one another but also can give church practitioners insight and wisdom for their tasks.