15 - TWC 10 'The Emerging Contours of Global Theology'

Reading Quiz on Theology in the Context of World Christianity

According to the author, theology needs the reintegration of which disciplines?

Exegetical, systematic, historical, and practical

Western theology sets out first philosophical principles of theory and then applies these. In the Majority Christian world, knowledge claims often come after what?

experience in a concrete situation, known as praxis.

A Christendom mindset is a problem for Western Systematic theologians because it fails to account for articulating faith in God in relation to

claims of theistic religious systems and their sacred texts

What systematic theology needs is a focus on

mission

The danger for global theology that focuses on local expression is

growing fragmentation of niche theologies

Global theology helps the Biola Christian in a post-Christian West to

move away from minimal 'seeker-friendly' tactics to robust and theologically literate posture as a striking alternative to society

Global Theology is particularly relevant to Western Christians because

of the mass migration that brings Christians from the majority world and also non-Christians from non-Western settings to the West