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 C...

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.