Browsing by Author "Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen"

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CHRIST AND RECONCILIATION
(Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2013-03-30) Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen
The current book is one of the five volumes in the series titled CONSTRUCTIVE CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY FOR THE PLURALISTIC WORLD. This series conceives the nature and task of Christian systematic/constructive theology in a new key. Living as we are in the beginning of the third millennium in a world shaped by cultural, ethnic, sociopolitical, economic, and religious plurality, it is essential for Christian theology to tackle the issues of plurality and diversity. While robustly Christian in its convictions, building on the deep and wide tradition of biblical, historical, philosophical, and contemporary systematic traditions, this project seeks to engage our present cultural and religious diversity in a way Christian theology has not done in the past. Although part of a larger series, each volume can still stand on its own feet, so to speak, and can be read as an individual work.
Trinity and Revelation: A CONSTRUCTIVE CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY FOR THE PLURALISTIC WORLD
(Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2014-04-24) Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen
Just a few days before his death, Paul Tillich is reported to have confessed that if he had the opportunity to rewrite his three-volume Systematic Theology, he would do so engaging widely world religions. This was due to his brief exposure at the end of his life to the forms of Japanese Buddhism as well as the influence from his famed Romanian religious studies colleague Mircea Eliade. 1While Karl Barth made occasional, scattered references to religions, he also dismissed any revelatory and theological role of religions. Even worse, he made the avoidance of dialogue with the natural sciences a theological theme — and thus could write a massive volume on creation without references to scientific understanding!