The Gospel in the Western Context, : A mMssiological Reading of Christology in Dialogue with Hendrikus Berkhof and Colin Gunton.

• Superior document: Studies in Reformed theology ; Volume 37
• Author: Gert-Jan Roest
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, , Boston: : Brill, , 2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Reformed Theology 37.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (viii, 425 pages).

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.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Preface -- Introduction -- Hendrikus Berkhof -- Introduction to Hendrikus Berkhof -- The Method with Which Berkhof Reads the Western Context -- The Content of Berkhof’s Reading of the Western Context -- The Method with Which Berkhof Approaches Christology -- The Content of Berkhof’s Christology -- Evaluation of Berkhof -- Colin Gunton -- Introduction to Colin Gunton -- The Method with Which Gunton Reads the Western Context -- The Content of Gunton’s Reading of the Western Context -- The Method with Which Gunton Approaches Christology -- The Content of Gunton’s Christology -- Evaluation of Gunton -- Contours of a Western Gospel at the Beginning of the 21st Century -- The Gospel as Star-theme -- A Methodology for Reading the Context -- The Content of Reading the Western Context -- Contours of a Western Gospel -- Back Matter -- Bibliography -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.