To Stake a Claim
Subtitle: Mission and the Western Crisis of Knowledge
Contributors: J. Andrew Kirk (Editor); Kevin J. Vanhoozer (Editor)
Publisher: Orbis Books
Published: December 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9781570752742
Subjects: Philosophy Of Christianity; Theory; Missions; Religion - Theology; Religion; Missions & Missionary Work; Christian Theology - General; Epistemology; Christian mission & evangelism; Philosophy of religion; Christianity - Theology - General; Christian Ministry - Missions; Christianity - General; Knowledge, Theory of (Religion; Knowledge, Theory of (Religion)
First sentence: The epistemological predicament that today confronts the Academy (and, many would say, Western society at large) challenges at least three traditional claims in the area of philosophy: to objective rationality, to truth, and to a "realist" interpretation of our language as corresponding with "the way things really are."
Description: "An original international collaboration, To Stake a Claim researches the relationship between what counted for "knowledge" in the West, how this knowledge has changed over the years, and how those changes related to the mission of the church as an evangelizer within Western culture."--BOOK JACKET.

"Examining four key areas of study, To Stake a Claim evaluates the dominant positions in contemporary philosophy regarding truth, rationality and pluralism. It first analyzes consequences for humanity that holding these positions implies. Next, it looks at faith, religion and revelation in the context of the dominant positions of contemporary philosophy discussed in the first part. The third part explores the dominant positions of contemporary theology.

Finally, it summarizes the epistemological problems involved in the process of communicating the Gospel within Western culture and evaluates the theological and missiological views of this communication."--BOOK JACKET.