THEOLOGY

Asian Christian Theology

Emerging Themes

This stimulating gathering of representative Asian theological essays, readings, and church statements addresses the crucial issues central to the Christian faith in relation to Asia's cultural past and changing culture of the present. Presented are both ecumenical and evangelical positions as well as Protestant and Roman Catholic traditions. A revised edition of the formerly published What Asian Christians Are Thinking, here is essential reading for understanding Asia's important contributions to the theology of the church today.

"The tremendous value of this book for Christians everywhere in the world," writes Charles C. West in his foreword, "is the picture it gives of the creativity, vitality, and variety of Christian thought in the Asian churches today... To read these essays is, for the Westerner, to enter a world in which the familiar themes of faith take on quite new meanings against new backgrounds and in which strange themes from other cultures start to shine with Christian meaning... the Western world in recent years, of pseudo salvations from the We have had our fill, in East-whether Maoist, Taoist, Hare Krishna, or Zen. We may have in this book the beginnings of a real word of God to us from the Asian experience."