Crossroad discourses between Christianity and culture / / edited by Jerald D. Gort, Henry Jansen, and Wessel Stoker.

• Author: Gort, Jerald D.
• TeilnehmendeR: Jansen, Henry.; Stoker, W.
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam ;, New York, NY : : Rodopi,, 2010.
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Currents of Encounter 38.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (641 pages).
• Notes: "Festschrift in honor of Hendrik M. Vroom on the occasion of his 65th birthday"--Title page verso.
• Other title: Preliminary Material --; Introductory Essay: Theology of Culture, Secularity, and Plurality /; The Background and Nature of the Deep Changes in the Religious Realities in Modern Europe /; The Concept of Culture in Abraham Kuyper, Herman Bavinck, and Karl Barth /; The Role of Faith in Science and in Religion /; Christian Faith and Reason: A Hermeneutical Approach /; Amor Mundi in a (Post)Liberal Era: The Relevance of an Arendtian Theme for Christian Self-Understanding Today /; Equality, Difference, and Justice /; Business Ethics and Intrinsic Motivation in a Pluralist World /; Renewal of Civilization: Toward Justice and Peace /; Populism: A Blessing in Disguise for Democracy? /; Poverty, Oppression, and Christian Faith /; The Public Role of Churches in Present Democratic South Africa /; Imagination and Art in the Christian Faith: On Imagination and Art in the Church /; Language, Literature, and Transcendence: The Contribution of F.R. Leavis /; Readiness and Timing: The Early Modern Virtues of Hamlet’s Providential Christianity /; Indigenous Spirituality and Sustainable Development: A Critical Appraisal of African Renaissance Rhetoric /; African Philosophy, Contextualisation, Multiculturalism /; Untouchables, Christians, and Hindus: How the Sacred World Order is Preserved and Renounced /; Contemporary Christian-Hindu Relations in Britain and the Netherlands /; Superseded, Obstructive, or Crucial?: Christian Views of Judaism and its Sacred Texts /; Recent Developments in Christian-Jewish Dialogue /; Sympathy and Empathy: The Compassionate Bodhisattva and the Love of Christ /; Christian and Buddhist Spiritualities: Their Differences and Complementarities /; Present-Day Europe and Islam in Encounter: Emerging European Islam and its Dialogue Partners /; The Council of Churches in the Netherlands and its Encounter with Islam /; Proximity and Distance China and the Christian West: An Essay in Intercultural Philosophy /; Christian Views of the New Religiosities of the Western World /; Recent Ecclesiological Developments in the World Council of Churches: Continuity or Discontinuity? /; Conversion in the Ecumenical Debate: Great Joy or Great Discomfort? /; Confessio and Traditio: A Reformed Approach in Dialogue with the Lutheran Tradition /; Christianity and Culture: WARC at the Millennium /; Intercultural Theology as the Integration of Ecumenism and Missiology: The Example of Current Latin American Christology /; God Has No Favourites: Ecumenism and Interreligious Dialogue The Unity of God’s Creation /; Index of Subjects --; Index of Names --; Contributors.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• ISBN: 9042028645
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Jerald D. Gort, Henry Jansen, and Wessel Stoker.

Christianity exists in relation to and interacts with its cultural environment in a number of ways. In this volume authors from a wide variety of backgrounds explore various facets of the relationship and interaction of Christianity with its cultural environment: politics, society, esthetics, religion and spirituality, and with itself. Divided into three main sections, Crossroad Discourses between Christianity and Culture looks at the interaction of Christianity with culture in the first section, with other religions and spiritualities in the second, and finally with itself in the third. The contributions engage in a critical examination of not only the culture in which Christianity finds itself but also in a critical examination of Christianity itself and its interaction with that culture. The editors hope that teachers, students, and readers in general will profit greatly from the critical articles contained in this book.