Terry C. Muck
Biography
Terry C. Muck co-wrote Christianity Encountering World Religions with Frances S. Adeney, co-edited Handbook of Religion with Gerald R. McDermott and Harold Netland, and wrote the foreword to Identity Crisis.
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World Religions
“Keith Yandell and Harold Netland accomplish several important things in this concise work: (1) they authoritatively summarize Buddhist history; (2) they systematically outline Buddhist teachings; and (3) they clearly compare and contrast Buddhism with Christianity. A unique resource for Christians interested in Buddhism and Buddhist-Christian relationships.”
Christianity and Religious Diversity
Theology
“Another outstanding book by preeminent evangelical philosopher of religion Harold Netland. With great effectiveness and faithfulness, Netland unpacks one of the knottiest theological issues of our day: the challenge of non-Christian religions and what that challenge means for those with Christian commitments. This is essential reading.”
Christianity and Religious Plurality
World Religions
“It takes a plurality of theologians to deal with the complexity of the world's plurality of religions. Wilbert Shenk and Richard Plantinga have assembled an all-star cast, and they have delivered wisdom that we all need to hear, read, and act upon. A must-read for anyone interested in Christian mission in the twenty-first century.”
Evangelical Zen, Second Edition
World Religions
“When it comes to interreligious interchanges, theology often gets more attention than relationships. That’s not true of Paul Louis Metzger’s Evangelical Zen. Although filled with stunning theological insights, it models how evangelical Christians and Zen practitioners can and should be in relationship. An inspiring read.”
World Religions
“As growing numbers of committed Christians choose to engage in ‘respectful dialogue’ with committed Buddhists, the uninitiated to this form of engagement may wonder what ‘respectful dialogue’ entails. Fragrant Rivers of Wisdom, taken as a whole, is an excellent introduction. Not an analytical, intellectual introduction, but one based on van Gorder’s personal experience of living among Asian Buddhists. As it turns out, the path of ‘respectful dialogue’ leads to a new cadre of warm friends with whom we can both disagree and love deeply. Recommended.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“The 'miracle' of biblical hermeneutics is that Christians around the world understand passages of the Bible differently, yet at the same time manage, without equivocation, to affirm the same gospel. David deSilva shows us one example of this by reporting on his engagement with Sri Lankan Bible students in understanding the book of Galatians. It is a brilliant model of learning from one another and at the same time standing together in the affirmation of scriptural truth.”
World Religions
“A much-needed work, Heim and his colleagues remind us that religious pluralism really includes three pluralisms: pluralism of religions, pluralism within Christianity, and a pluralism of responses to the first two pluralisms. The great contribution of this book is that it highlights one final pluralism that helps us deal with the first three — a pluralism of resources from within the rich Christian tradition that can be brought to bear on the key theological issue of the twenty-first century.”
Theology
“Something is wrong with witness when one consistently wins arguments but never souls. The habits of the Mormon heart are not reshaped by confrontation with the gospel but by confession of the gospel. David Rowe teaches us lessons in faithful confession to Mormon culture. Live these lessons, and the lives of those around you will turn Godward.”
Intercultural Theology, Volume Three
Theology
“Wrogemann finishes his trilogy, the Intercultural Theology series, by addressing a key issue facing the global church—interreligious relations. As he points out, what is new about Christian relationships with other religions is that hardly a day goes by that we are not confronted with another religious tradition, often in the form of an adherent of one of those religions. His suggestions on how the global church and global Christians can face this ubiquitous issue are faithful, wise, and valuable. An excellent contribution to the literature.”
Intercultural Theology, Volume Two
Evangelism & Missions
“Henning Wrogemann continues from his Intercultural Theology Volume One, on the need for understanding among the diverse world Christian churches, with Volume Two, an articulation of the range of diverse mission theologies in those churches. Amid the diversity, however, he ends with a nuanced discussion of the foundation that unifies all mission theologies: an oikoumenical, doxological understanding of mission. The spiritual foundation of all mission, he argues, is that we all do mission to praise God as we experience God's power. Another tour de force for Wrogemann.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“You can count on two things from this excellent introduction: (1) reliable information about the world’s religions and (2) guidance in seeing that information through a Christian lens. Charles Farhadian has given us a religion text for the twenty-first century: accurate, faithful, respectful, and compassionate. It now has a permanent place on my bookshelf.”
Theology
“Paul Ingram belongs to the tribe of those who see God's grace everywhere in the world. So do I. And if you, too, belong to this tribe you will benefit from reading this book. It will help you in your quest to answer the follow-up question: if grace is everywhere, how do we teach people to access it? This is the religious question of the religiously plural twenty-first century.”
Religious Diversity—What’s the Problem?
World Religions
“Rita Gross personifies religious diversity. She grew up in a religiously exclusive Christian church, was disfellowshipped, converted to another religion, and then another. In the meantime, she became one of the world's leading religious scholars. Drawing on both personal experience and scholarly expertise, she has written the best book on religious diversity I have ever read.”
Evangelism & Missions
“Most commentators on Christian mission who claim to use critical thinking in their assessments forget the 'thinking' and are just 'critical.' The authors of these essays 'think' too. One may not always agree with their assessments in toto, but the ideas in this book need to be taken seriously by Christians interested in the growth of the church in the twenty-first century.”
Evangelism & Missions
“The twenty-first century global Christian fellowship is undergoing radical questioning of two theological loci: epistemology and ecclesiology. This book is about the second, the doctrine of the church. Authors Duerksen and Dyrness argue that the church is always emerging (never in final form) and in the end, like the Buddha's raft, will be eliminated when the kingdom of God reaches its fullness. They suggest that the answer to our quandary about what the church should be has more to do with eschatology than we have heretofore imagined. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in our religious future.”
Who Do the Ngimurok Say That They Are?
World Religions
“For Kevin Lines, missiological contextualization of other religious traditions is not just a theoretical idea, but a mission practice he has used with great effectiveness. His approach to understanding non-Christian religious specialists is the way forward to continued mission success in Africa—and around the world.”
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