The national consultation for theology students (2015) organized by the Indian School of Ecumenical Theology on the subject, “Ecumenical perspective on Secular India: Implications in doing Theology in India,” : An Overview

The following are the outline/ draft of the proceedings.   Day One Moses P. Manohar presented the session on “Issues of Ecumenism and Secularism in India” under three primary questions: what is your produce / product as a theologian (as theological students)? What is theology? What is secularism? For him, theology is primarily concerned about/ of two things: sin and salvation. And the task of the theologians or theological students is to identity issues of sin and salvation. Sins in India are manifested in the forms of injustice, injustice in the form of...

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A Book Review: Classical Apologetics- A Rational Defense Of The Christian Faith And A Critique of Presuppositional Apologetics

Authors: R.C. Sproul, John Gerstner, And Arthur Lindsley Year: 1984 Pages: 364 ISBN 0310449510 All three authors of this particular effort in apologetics are associated with the Ligonier Valley Study Center. They do not indicate who wrote which sections of the book. However, each author advocates Reformed Christianity. Is it true that a person must accept Christianity on the basis of faith alone? Is there a rational defense of the Christian faith? This is the main ideaof the book by Sproul, Gerstner and Lindsley, namely that Christianity is reasonable and it is rational. “Classically,...

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A BOOK REVIEW:Jesus Christ in the World History

Jan A. B. Jongeneel Pages 453 ISBN-9789380548173 The author Jan A. B. Jongeneel is Honorary Professor Emeritus of Missiology at Utrecht University. He published a missiological encyclopedia in two volumes (recently reprinted in Bangalore) and supervised 41 missiological dissertations. He is editor of the series MISSION (Zoetermeer) and the series Studies in the Intercultural History of Christianity (Frankfurt am Main). In short, this study pronounces and evaluates the observations and responses to Jesus as the Messiah in six continents from the beginning of the Common Era until today....

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A BOOK REVIEW: Religious Pluralism, Globalization and World Politics

 Author: Thomas Francis Banchoff ISBN: 9780195323412 PAGES: 348  Thomas Francis Banchoff is an American mathematician specializing in geometry. He is Director of the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University.He is a professor at Brown University, where he has taught since 1967. He is known for his research in differential geometry in three and four dimensions, for his efforts to develop methods of computer graphics in the early 1990s,...

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A BOOK REVIEW: Eternity in their Hearts By Don Richardson

ISBN 08307-0925-8PAGES: 223YEAR: 1981 Don Richardson (1935) is a Canadian Christian missionary, teacher, author and international speaker who worked among the tribal people of Western New Guinea, Indonesia. Richardson says, “Redemptive antidotes to human bondage are what Eternity in Their Hearts is all about” (p. 191). Richardson divides the book into two main parts: first, the “Melchizedek Factor” (general revelation) and second, the “Abraham Factor” (special revelation). To my understanding,...

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A BOOK REVIEW: The New Testament documents; Are they reliable?

The New Testament documents; Are they reliable? Author: F. F. Bruce Pages: 431 ISBN: 9780851115252 The late F. F. Bruce was Emeritus Professor, University of Manchester. He was a Biblical scholar who supported the historical reliability of the New Testament. His first book, New Testament Documents: Are They Reliable? (1943), was voted by the American evangelical periodical Christianity Today in 2006 as one of the top 50 books "which had shaped...

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RISING PREDICAMENT OF REASON AND REVELATION CONFLICT: HIGHLIGHTING THE USAGE OF RATIONAL FIDEISM IN CHRISTENDOM FOR AN EFFECTIVE APOLOGETICAL COMMUNICATION OF THE GOSPEL

INTRODUCTION 1. DESCRIPTIVE DEFINITION 1.1 REASON 1.2 REVELATION 1.2.1 Tertullion’s Fideism 1.2.2 Augustinian’s Rational Presuppositionalism 1.2.3 Thomistic Natural Theology 1.2.4 Revelational Epistemology 2. A BRIEF LOOK AT VARIANT OUTLOOKS 2.1 REVELATIONAL RAMIFICATION 2.2 REASON’S RAMIFICATION 2.3 REASON OVER REVELATION’S RAMIFICATION 2.4 REVELATION OVER REASON’S RAMIFICATION 2.5 RATIONAL FIDEISM: THE PERFACT BLEND OF REVELATION AND          REASON 3. EPISTEMICAL AND ONTOLOGICAL DISSECTION OF REASON 4. THE PROBLEM WITH BIBLICAL...

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