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Apologia: Contextualization, Globalization, and Mission in Theological Education »

Authors: Max L. Stackhouse, Nantawan Boonprasat-Lewis (With), Ilse Von Loewenclau
ISBN-13: 9780802802859, ISBN-10: 0802802850
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Eerdmans, William B. Publishing Company
Date Published: March 1988
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Max L. Stackhouse

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	Foreword	ix
Part I	A Dialogue
1	An Introduction	3
	A Conversation Reported	4
	Some Results and Implications	7
	Early Objections Acknowledged	11
2	Our Context	15
	Liberal?	16
	Modern?	17
	Neo-orthodox?	19
	Ecumenical?	20
	Realist?	23
	Biblical?	26
3	Texts and Contexts	29
	From Text to Context	30
	The Context as Text	33
	From Context to Text	38
4	Affirmations and Translations	43
	Minimalist Affirmations	43
	So Long, Sola Scriptura	50
	Translation Transforms	53
	A General Pattern?	56
	Where Are We?	61
Part II	Wider Discussions
5	Consultations and Globalization	67
	On Community Engagement	68
	On Global Solidarity	73
	Toward Globalization	77
	Unresolved Issues	78
6	Praxis and Solidarity	84
	The Advocates of Praxis	85
	The Roots of Praxis	88
	Praxis Baptized	91
	Does Praxis Mean Orthopraxis?	95
	Is Orthopraxis True and Just?	98
	Praxis Requires Theoria	103
7	Poesis and Contextuality	106
	Models of Contextualization	107
	On Reading Contexts	109
	The Science of Cultural Contexts	112
	Catholicity Forsaken?	114
	Doctrine as a Cultural-Linguistic System	119
8	Theoria and Phenomenology	123
	The Loss of Integrity	123
	Toward Belief-Full Knowledge	127
	Dissatisfactions	129
	Schleiermacher Still?	132
Part III	A Proposal
9	Apologia	139
	What Is Missing?	141
	Is Religion Really Important?	145
	Can Theology Judge Religions?	148
	Warranted Wisdom	152
	Grounded Scientia	156
	Cosmopolitan Apologetics	159
10	Orthodoxy?	162
	What's at Stake?	163
	Four Doctrines	169
	A Review	182
11	Praxiology?	184
	The Foundations of Praxis	185
	Three Marks of Justice	202
12	Doxology	209
	In Praise of Reason	210
	A Humble Confidence	214
	The Future of the Fields	217
Appendix 1	A Response to Apologia, with Special Reference to Problems of Text and Context	223
Appendix 2	A Response to Apologia, with Special Reference to the Seminary as a Faith Community	230

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