Share This: “We all understand that people in the Hispanic world know about Jesus Christ […] but they don’t know Christ. They don’t know the gospel of grace. And they don’t know the full revelation of Scripture.” This is what John MacArthur said in a video to the audience of Por su causa (For his cause), a mega conference in the Dominican Republic that seeks to emphasize the centrality of the gospel for the church. MacArthur felt free to make adventurous comments about the Christian faith in traditions that are foreign to his own. In this occasion, characterizing people in Latin America, a region with one of the largest Christian…
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Citation: Contextual Theology and the Authority of Scripture
Share This: “Los intérpretes evangélicos del mundo mayoritario [África, Asia, y América Latina] afirman que toda teología es contextual, a la vez que abrazan la revelación trascendente de la Escritura. Ellos [y ellas] se niegan a aceptar el supuesto desprendimiento cultural que ha caracterizado las estrategias de lectura occidentales.” Bibliografía Gene L. Green. 2012. “The Challenge of Global Hermeneutics.” In Global Theology in Evangelical Perspective: Exploring the Contextual Nature of Theology and Mission, 50–64. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press. P. 57.
- America Latina, Christian Faith, Citas para el alma, Cristianismo, Fe Cristiana, Iglesia, Religion, teologia, Theology
Teologías Latinoamericanas: Prácticas comunales de esperanza – Cita(tion)
Share This: “En lugar de una disciplina académica sistemática reservada para élites intelectuales, teologías auténticamente latinoamericanas, en sus formas liberacionista, holísticamente evangélica y pentecostal, son prácticas comunales de esperanza y praxis indígena que resisten ser definidas por categorías impuestas desde el exterior.” Bibliografía Padilla DeBorst, Ruth. “Songs of Hope Out of a Crying Land: An Overview of Contemporary Latin American Theology.” In Global Theology: Exploring the Contextual Nature of Theology and Mission. Edited by Jeffrey P. Greenman and Gene L. Green. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2012, p. 88.
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No desde el Balcón: Hacer Teología en Latino América (Cita)
Share This: “Como pensadores latinoamericanos hemos escogido hacer nuestra teología no contemplando a Cristo desde la cómoda distancia del balcón, una ortodoxia segura y fácilmente recibida, sino siguiéndolo en los tortuosos senderos de nuestras tierras latinoamericanas.” Bibliografía Escobar, Samuel. “Doing Theology on Christ’s Road.” In Global Theology: Exploring the Contextual Nature of Theology and Mission. Edited by Jeffrey P. Greenman and Gene L. Green. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2012, p. 71.
- antropología, Christian Faith, Cristianismo, Cristología, Eclesiología, Educacion Cristiana, Fe Cristiana, Iglesia, Jesucristo, Protestantism, Protestantismo, soteriology, teologia, Teologia Pastoral, Theology
Do you see Protestant Blindspots?
Share This: From Peter Leithar at First Things Protestant soteriology claims to deal with perennial patterns of behavior and belief: Striving for approval from God by our performance, self-righteousness, works-righteousness, pride in our achievements, etc. Let’s grant that these are perennial patterns of behavior, though they will likely take various forms in different cultural settings. That’s not just “grant for argument’s sake”; I grant as true that Luther didn’t invent the various evils they assaulted so vehemently. Still, we need to ask if our theology has kept us focused on these particular behaviors, whether our Protestant eyes have made us see only the Protestant sins everywhere we look. And we have to…
