Index of Subjects
Adoptionism
118–119, 123, 124, 206, 254
Alexandrian school
118, 123–124, 254
Alienating structures
68, 129
Amsterdam
3, 14
Analogy of being
197
Anglican theology
74, 318
Anhypostasia and enhypostasia
115–117, 219
Anthropocentric turn
77–78, 86–88, 130, 213
Anthropology
323–328
Anti-humanism
335
Antiochene school
118, 123–124, 254
Anxiety
370–372, 372n39
Apocalyptic Christianity
208
Apollinarianism
215
Apostasy
75–76
Arbitrary will
180, 196
Arianism
119–120, 124, 134, 138, 215, 254
Ascension
111–112
Atheism
30, 32–34, 33n24, 45, 89, 92
Atonement
Juridical metaphors
137–138, 211, 377
Kaleidoscopic view
137–138
Metaphors
170, 211, 229–230
Mystery
137
Penal-substitution
3, 105, 114, 137n26, 210–211, 228, 230–232, 255–257, 274, 369, 369n30, 372n38, 375n51
Sacrifice
113, 136, 207n39, 213–214, 220, 230, 232, 237–238, 375n54
Satisfactio and poena
232, 256
Renewal of the covenant model
113–114, 136–137
Autonomy
45, 69, 78–80, 131, 172–173, 226
Bible
17, 99, 165, 189–190
Choice for Berkhof and Gunton
19–21
Christocentric universalism
269
Christology contextualized Christology
And New Testament
200–201
And systematic theology
17, 200–201
And the gospel of John
114, 200–201
Christus praesens
267
Cosmological
195, 213
Criteria for discerning the Spirit
263, 270, 293
Discipleship-in-context
135, 253
Divine agency tradition and
141
Dualistic assumptions and
139–140
From above
100–103, 133, 203–206
From before
100–101, 103, 133, 135
From behind
100–101, 133
From below
100–103, 133, 203–206, 367–368
Heresy
202, 204, 206, 215
Logos-anthropos model
118
Logos-Christology
107, 123, 133–134, 190–191
Logos-sarx model
118
Natures of Christ
130, 216–217
Non-dualistic
215
Non-metaphysical
107–108
Pneuma-Christology
108, 118, 123, 133–134, 363n5
Pneumatology and
308, 337n28
Scotist
223
Threefold office of Christ
105
Christus Praesens
207
Colonialism
296–298
Confessing Church
30, 37, 126
Contextualization
As part of God’s pilgrim people
302–303
Awareness of
3
By challenging situations
300–302
By expressing and justifying the gospel
161–163, 239
Commitment to action and
300
Confession and
385–394
Contextuality and
7, 294
Creation and
318
Critique and affirmation and
44, 126
Cultural-religious type of
298, 317
Culture and
8, 44–45
Dialectical reading and
166–167, 273
Discerning questions, answers, and ‘Lebensgefühl’ and
38–41, 126
Dominant culture and
15
Double transformation through
4, 83
Embracing tension and crisis and
46, 126
Experience and
8
Fellowship and
49
From an anti-imperialist perspective
296–299
Globalization and
296
Gospel-centered model
314–328
Habits and
326–328
Healing modern fragmentation
150, 151, 159, 196
Idolatry and
3n6, 127, 168–173, 239, 341
Importance of
35–37, 125
In light of the missio Dei
293, 295, 303, 306
Inculturation and
4, 8, 9
Indigenizing principle and
9
Kernel/husk theory of
4, 274
Lens of crucified life-style
351–358
Lens of salvation
349–351
Lens of worship and
140, 159–160, 173, 208, 341–349
Margins and
299
Meaning of
5–6
Missiology and
23
Not monologue but dialogue in
36–37, 125, 340
Philosophy and
20, 159, 240, 299, 318
Poverty and
350, 351
Power and
15, 132–133, 138–139, 299
Prayer and
49
Prophetic
295
Risks of
50
Scripture and
49
Sitz im Leben and
7
Social change and
8
Social location and
8, 15
Social-economic-political type of
298, 317
Spirit of the Age in Church and
41, 126
The age of authenticity
333–340
Theocentricity and anthropocentricity and
54–57
Theology and
163–166
Third World context and
9, 21, 125
Turn to subjectivity and
7
Western theology and
5, 18, 51
Worldview and
60–63, 127–128
Contextualized Christology
17–19, 200–201
Courage
366–367
Covenant
49, 64, 80, 82, 87, 93, 98–99, 101n5, 104–105, 112–114, 117–118, 136–137, 142, 194
Creation
Appearance of man
107
As project
166, 221
Evolution and
106
Medieval doctrine
179–180
Ontological distinction Creator and
61
Purpose of
81n104, 85–86
Trinitarian account of
151, 164
Creeds of Nicaea and Chalcedon
20, 25, 109–110, 115–116, 123–124, 133, 139, 215, 254, 284, 284n59, 381–382
Cross
138–139
Culture
2
Deep structure of Berkhof’s theology
60–66
Deep structure of Gunton’s theology
174–185
Deism
337n30, 345, 365n11, 391
Diversity
13, 19, 212
Divided worldview and
62–63
Divinity of Christ
117
Docetism
206, 215, 382
Dualism
140, 178–181, 186
Early Catholicism
208
Ecclesiology
32, 35–37, 41–43, 67, 82n109, 96–98, 193–194, 236, 322–323
Ecology
154, 165, 357
Election
339
Emerging church
128, 280n41
Empiricism
32, 39, 88–89, 115, 126, 131, 185
Enlightenment
11, 12n44, 67, 70, 92, 94, 102, 149, 168, 172–173, 181, 280
Epistemology
Inter-subjective encounter
92–93
Knowing-as-participation
390
Subject-object gap
92
Eschatology
128, 132, 189, 208–209, 221, 294, 363, 364n10, 376
Ethics
16, 86, 186, 193, 313
Europe
14, 39, 85, 89
Evolution
71–74, 78, 86–88, 106, 129, 180, 195, 387
Exclusive humanism
335
Existentialism
77–78, 86–88
Feminist theology
21, 95, 148, 152, 165
Forgiveness
392
Freedom
78, 131, 169, 191–193, 227, 344–347, 358–359
French Revolution
67, 75, 193
From ‘above’ and ‘below’
32, 54, 89, 94, 204–207, 336, 340, 388
Functionalism
88–91, 96, 130
Gnosticism
84, 94, 139, 222, 365n10, 368, 378, 387, 391n122
God
Absence
353–354
Accommodation
49
Action and being
164
As Creator
165–166
Blessing
379–381
Changeable Faithfulness
88
Condescendence
87–88
Defenceless Superior Power
87
Dualistic and non-relational
178
Eternity
88
Faithfulness of
45
Holy love
88
Immutability
87
Impassibility
229
Medieval concept
178–179
Monistic
179
Omnipotence
87, 173, 179, 226–227
Omnipresence
88
Omniscience
88, 173
Powerlessness
87
Presence
353–354, 372–373
Sovereignty
93, 141
Simplicity
88
Timeless and a-historical
178
Transcendence
87
Two hands
166
Unknowability
165, 240
Violence
374n48
Wrath
256–257
Gospel
As hermeneutical matrix
311–314
As star-theme
265
Christology and
265
Contextual
2
Critiquing and inspiring function of
45
DNA
278, 285
Eschatological reserve
271–273
Kerygma and
43–44, 89, 283, 288–289
Mystery of
265–275, 337n30, 391
Narrative of
361–368
Not fully known
44, 269
Political relevance of
30, 37, 126
Re-contextualization of the
10–11, 25
Rediscovering the content of the
5
Salvation
369–377
Seed and tree
277–278, 290, 294n6
Trinity and
162n24, 233–236
Unity and diversity
19, 275–291
Gospel and Our Culture Network (GOCN)
10, 303–314
Greek philosophy
11
Guilt
3
Homoousion
123–124, 184, 233–234
Hospitality
356, 363, 374–376, 375n51
Human flourishing
337, 365n14
Human perception
170, 175–177
Humanism
77
Humanity of Christ
103–105, 111
Humans as God’s partner
85, 87
Idealism
39, 40, 89, 115, 126, 189
Imagination
170, 325, 341n49, 341–342
Immanentism
180–181, 190, 203, 362–366
Incarnation
117–118, 139, 206–207, 218, 219, 220, 223–224, 382
Individualism
81–84, 82n109, 131–132, 172–173, 213, 345–346
Individuality
78–86, 169
Industrial Revolution
67
Intellectualism
53
Islam
76, 127, 335n17, 362n3
Israel
65, 74, 98–99
Justification
44n48, 82n109, 111, 230, 230n94, 231–232, 248n28, 255–256, 301, 373n45
Kenosis
218
Kingdom of God
17, 68, 69, 73, 76, 85–86, 129, 267, 280, 294, 322, 342, 349, 356, 364n10
Liberal theology
17, 47, 146–147, 152, 158–159
Liberation theology
5, 20, 24, 148, 152, 247, 311n72
Marxism
39, 68, 88, 129, 169n58
Meaning of life
84–86
Meaninglessness
55n105, 77
Media
8, 244, 251, 323, 327, 359
Mediation theology
47–48, 51–57, 65, 127–129
Metaphysics
89, 90, 94, 96, 131
Mind as judge
186
Missiology
23, 263
Mission of the church
2, 5, 7, 265, 267, 293, 322–323, 359, 369
Missionary encounter
2, 3, 4
Modernism
42
Monophysitism
118n34, 124, 259
Monothelitism and duothelitism
258–259
Nestorianism
215
North America
14, 24, 85n123
Old Testament
43, 92, 98–99
Ontology
90, 96, 108, 117, 130, 195–198, 390
Open transcendentals
171, 176n6, 195
Orthodox theology (conservative)
17, 42, 46–47, 53, 66, 146, 158–159, 209
Panentheism
89
Pantheism
365n11, 373n44, 387, 391
Patripassionism
229
Perichoresis
171, 190, 198, 229, 234, 237
Person
130, 234–235
Personalism
53, 93
Pneumatology
31, 32, 56, 69, 95, 101, 106–108, 108n41, 112, 126, 155, 192–193, 208, 226, 270
Post-Christendom
1, 12, 14
Post-Christian
3, 13, 14
Post-Easter Christ
89
Post-modern
3, 12, 14, 127, 148, 152, 187
Prayer
80, 112
Pre-existence of Jesus
116–117, 119
Process-theology
21, 146
Progress
72–74, 85n123, 132, 222–223
Prosperity and security
347–349
Quest for the historical Jesus
71, 133, 204, 280
Radical Orthodoxy
153
Rationality
169, 175–177, 185–188, 209–212, 240–246, 343
Reformation
3
Reformed Theological Seminary
3
Reformed Theology
3, 19, 86, 273n26, 274, 323–324
Relationality
171, 188, 192, 195, 196, 198, 236, 237, 253
Religion-science division
63
Religions
96, 146, 148, 152, 164, 224, 270, 286, 298
Renunciation
337
Research question
21–22
Responsibility to change structures
68, 76
Resurrection
44, 48, 74, 104, 111, 218, 219
Revelation
91–96
Revelation and experience
95–96
Revelation and reason
161–163, 186
Revolution
32, 68, 86, 129
Scholastic theology of Gunton
158–161
Second World War
30, 31
Secularization
30, 32–34, 67, 70, 76, 89, 167
Sexuality
75, 250, 339, 346, 355–356, 356n113, 384
Shame
350, 374–375
Sin
1, 223, 339n42, 347
Skepticism
14
Socinian theology
113n16, 254
Sola Scriptura
273n26
Son of God
117
Spirituality
33, 128, 133, 242, 251, 320, 333, 335, 384, 386
Substantiality
91, 107, 117, 118, 124, 140, 171, 192, 196–198, 217, 253–254
Substitution
228, 281n47
Synchronic and diachronic approach
22, 59n3, 122, 157, 157
Systematic Theology
Choice for
15–17
Nature of
263n3
Stars and planets in
58–60
Technology
39, 72, 80
Theologia crucis
246, 321
Theological Education Fund
6, 300, 302–303
Theological Hermeneutics
16
Third World theology
5, 20, 37–38, 48, 50, 263, 292, 317n85
Time
117, 132, 140n37, 169, 188–191, 348–349
Tradition
17, 189–191, 225, 262, 273n26
Trinitarian Renaissance
149–151, 153–154
Trinity
115, 116, 130, 146, 383–385
Turn to the world
77, 293
Uniqueness of Jesus
108, 110, 116, 118–119, 134, 139n33, 141, 224, 269
Verticalists and horizontalists
41–42, 63
Western theologians
5, 18
World Council of Churches
6, 20, 41n32, 69, 269, 280n44, 322–323
Worldview
286
Worship
140–141, 173, 208, 212, 382, 383