Jesus Imandars and Christ Bhaktas - Jonas Adelin Jørgensen Kartoniert (TB)

The massive changes of Christianity during the 20th century raise the perennial question about its identity in a new radical form. The author addresses the question of identity and asks how globalisation religious pluralism and the polycentric nature of Christianity affect Christian self-identification and theological reflection. First religious life and theological reflection among believers in Jesus from Muslim and Hindu background in South Asia is presented in two empirical studies. Secondly the findings are analysed and interpreted within a broad theoretical framework drawing on mode ls for syncretistic processes from history of religions cultural anthropology and Christian theology. Finally the study concludes with a systematic-theological perspective on the interreligious hermeneutics underlying the changes of Christianity and discusses how interreligious hermeneutics might inform missiology as well as Christian theologies of religions and how this might challenge our understanding of the church's nature and mission. In conclusion it is argued that a global polycentric Christianity can be interpreted as fellowship created by the Spirit and centred on Christ.