This study is occasioned by: 1) the ongoing debate about whether OT prophecies about the restoration of the nation of Israel and the restoration of Gentile nations are fulfilled in Christ and the Church in the present age – or in the future reign of the Messiah on earth; 2) the current debate about whether … Read more
The holistic approach to healing and wholeness in evangelical Christianity in Africa can provide insight to scholars interested in the significance of the body-soul relationship, a significant topic debated among philosophers and theologians for centuries and that remains relevant in global evangelical Christianity today. As Joel B. Green observes, modern science challenges the Christian notion … Read more
Sarah A. Coakley’s “God, Sexuality, and the Self” is her account of the doctrine of the Trinity. Coakley relies on Romans 8 as the main scriptural passage for her reflexive model of the Trinity. Although this volume is not Coakley’s theology of the atonement per se, this paper’s interest in the atonement falls downstream from … Read more
“I was dedicated to serve the Devil as a baby,” said Byang Kato (1936-1975) in 1962. Yet, by the grace of God, this infant grew up to become “a happy child of God” and the Father of African Evangelicalism. Kato spoke plainly concerning his spiritual transformation, and much of his brief literary output focused on … Read more
Fifty years after its publication in English and forty years after its critique and near-burial by a bevy of evangelical scholars, Gustavo Gutierrez’s A Theology of Liberation (1973) continues to exert significant influence within segments of an emerging global evangelicalism. While Gutierrez’s work is best situated within a Roman Catholic and Latin American context, its … Read more
In this paper, first, I want to take a panoramic look at what evangelical Latin American Contextual Christology has been until today. Second, I want to mention the main challenges Latin American Christology faces today, highlighting the tension between the fidelity of the biblical text and the need for relevance to their context. Third, I … Read more
Some recent literature on global theology and worldview mirrors tendencies of the soteriological inclusivism of a previous theological generation. A bevy of titles on global evangelicalism and religious experience in the last ten years have articulated a variety of approaches accounting for culture’s influence on theology but also culture’s control over theological language. Whereas some … Read more
Carl F.H. Henry maintained a consistent opposition to socialism through the entirety of his life. One of his consistent criticisms was that socialism and the totalitarian governmental system that necessarily accompanies it endangers religious liberty. Correlative to this, democratic systems provide the natural preconditions for religious liberty to flourish. Thus, for Henry, the expansion of … Read more
Fellipe do Vale’s book Gender as Love: A Theological Account of Human Identity, Embodied Desire, and Our Social Worlds (Baker Academic, 2023) offers a timely and sophisticated theology of gender from an international evangelical perspective. While his work has several merits, recurring throughout it are do Vale’s suggestions of transgender-affirming accommodations to his proposal. This … Read more