European Journal of Theology - Volume 29, Issue 2, 2020

[Zusammenfassung In seiner missiologisch orientierten Untersuchung zur Christologie sucht Roest nach möglichen Wegen, wie das Evangelium im Kontext des säkularen Westens vermittelt werden kann. Dabei dienen ihm Hendrikus Berkhof und Colin Gunton als Hauptgesprächspartner. In vollem Bewusstsein möglicher Fallstricke eines solchen hermeneutischen Modells, präsentiert der Autor einen gut strukturierten und ans Read More

[Summary This collection of papers looks at missionary campaigns and evangelism in their different aspects and their reception since their introduction into the German-speaking world during the nineteenth century. Besides the historical dimension, systematic and practical aspects are also considered. The papers are brief yet helpful, and it is to be hoped that more such research will be published., Résumé Cet ouvrage Read More

[Résumé Duerksen et Dyrness livrent une analyse de l’implantation et la croissance d’Églises au Japon, en Inde, dans les Philippines et l’Indonésie à travers la grille de la théorie émergente. Cette théorie décrit comment les interactions sociales et l’activité humaine créent des communautés chargées d’identité et de culture. Les auteurs montrent ce qu’est « l’émergence d’Église » à l’aide d’une brève présentation historique e Read More

[Résumé Ce manuel œcuménique pour l’évangélisation en Europe témoigne d’un intérêt renouvelé pour l’évangélisation au sein du mouvement œcuménique. Il tire son origine d’une initiative prise par la Commission sur la mission mondiale et l’évangélisation du Conseil Mondial des Églises. L’ouvrage se veut un manuel pour la formation théologique formelle et informelle. Il peut aussi servir aux praticiens d’introduction rapid Read More

[Summary Freikirche mit Mission [Free Church with a Mission] represents a comprehensive study on missionary church formation in Free Church contexts in Germany. Historical and empirical data are interwoven with philosophical and sociological thoughts with the intention to prove that free churches need to adjust to a different context if they want to preserve their missionary inheritance. In this situation, Christianity in the St Read More

[Summary The author seeks to rediscover how churches might practise healing inspired by the healing narratives in the Gospels. She argues that through uncritical acceptance of a modern western biomedical perspective, healing practices tend to be ‘unhealing’ for people with disabilities. Looking at the Gospel narratives themselves, their context, and various hermeneutical lenses for interpreting the narratives, she propos Read More

[Summary Wondrously Wounded sets out to reconfigure our theological idea of what disability is. It moves away, not only from charity or medical models, but also from some current thinking in disability theology (that those labelled disabled reveal humanity’s true vulnerability) to a starting point of all life being a gift, so all capable of mediating God’s goodness. Brock grounds his argument in patristic ideas of a radical Christi Read More

[Summary Gerhard Maier, a former principal of Albrecht-Bengel-Haus in Tübingen as well as a former bishop of the Evangelical Church in Germany, presents his life story under the title ‘Highlights of my Life’. The title is accurate because the book does not present a full autobiography, for Maier intentionally does not report on encounters with people who were still alive in 2019. However, the books gives a good insight into the life Read More