Their Rock Is Not Like Our Rock · A Theology of Religions by Strange, Daniel -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Title Page Copyright Page Contents Acknowledgments Autobiographical Prologue Abbreviations 1. The Task Before Us: Christians In a World of the Religious Other

Introduction 1. Describing the Tasks of an Evangelical Theology of Religions 2. Delineating the Task of This Study 3. Declaring the Thesis and Method of This Study

a. My Theology of Religions Stated b. The Elephant Speaks: Theological Method

Conclusion

2. Homo Adorans: Reformed Theological Foundations for Interpreting the Religious Other

Introduction: On Not Reinventing the Religious Wheel 1. Creation: The Creator–Creature Distinction and the Imago Dei

a. ‘And God Said . . . and It Was So’: The Independent Creator b. ‘Let Us Make Mankind In Our Image, In Our Likeness . . .’: The Dependent Creation

i. The Revelational ii. The Relational iii. The Representational

2. The Fall: De-Creation and ‘False Faith’ 3. The Promise of Redemption: Antithesis and Restraint

a. The Pronouncement of Salvation: The Protoevangelium b. The Pronouncement of Separation: The Doctrine of ‘the Antithesis’ c. The Pronouncement of Long-Suffering: The Doctrine of Common Grace

Conclusion: Homo Adorans–a Complex Anthropological Mix

3. The Curious Case of Remnantal Revelation: Gleanings On the Origins of the Religious Other

Introduction 1. The Case for Remnantal Revelation

a. Remnantal Revelation In Van Til b. Remnantal Revelation In H. Bavinck

2. Support for Remnantal Revelation

a. The Prisca Theologia and Comparative Mythology b. Wilhelm Schmidt and Original Monotheism

Summary

4. Towards a Religio-Genesis: Babel and the Nations In the Development of the Religious Other

Introduction 1. Babel and the Origin of Religious Diversity

a. Reformed Historical Precedent

i. Franz Delitzsch ii. C. A. Auberlen iii. Robert Candlish iv. H. Bavinck

b. Contemporary Treatments

i. Meredith Kline ii. James Jordan iii. James Montgomery Boice

2. Evaluation and Synthesis Conclusion

5. No Other Gods Before Me: The Idolatry of the Religious Other In the Old Testament

Introduction 1. An Open-and-Shut Case or an Open Verdict? Pluralisms and Presuppositions In the Study of Old Testament Attitudes to the Religious Other

a. Enlightenment Monotheism Versus Yahweh’s Transcendent Uniqueness b. Prescription Versus Description c. Divine Exploitation Without Divine Assent d. Religious Devolution Versus Evolution

2. Problems and Perplexities In Old Testament Attitudes Towards the Religious Other

a. Ecumenical Bonhomie? The ‘Problem’ of Patriarchal Religion b. Interim Acceptance? c. Evaluation and Critique

i. Promise and Fulfilment ii. Morality and Worship iii. The Divine Name iv. Melchizedek v. Interim Acceptance

3. Idolatry As the Primary Old Testament Categorization of the Religious Other

a. The Composition of Idols and Idolatry b. The Characteristics of Idols and Idolatry c. The Consequences of Idols and Idolatry

Conclusion

6. The Perilous Exchange: The Idolatry of the Religious Other In the New Testament

Introduction 1. Jesus Christ Our Lord

a. Jesus’ Transcendent Uniqueness b. ‘False Faith’ In the Son c. The Character of Jesus’ Work d. The Necessity of Faith In Christ for Salvation e. The Logos, and the ‘Times of Ignorance’

i. John 1:9 ii. The ‘Times of Ignorance’

2. The Perilous Exchange

a. A Clear and Present Revelation b. The ‘Perilous Exchange’

i. Suppression ii. Substitution

Conclusion

7. ‘For Their Rock Is Not As Our Rock’: The Gospel As the ‘Subversive Fulfilment’ of the Religious Other

Introduction 1. Defining Other Religions As Idolatrous Interprets Them As Antithetical Distortions of Divine Revelation 2. Defining Other Religions As Idolatrous Acknowledges Their Pseudo-Similarity to, and False Counterfeiting of, True Divine Revelation

a. ‘Imaginal’ Revelation

i. The Object of Idolatrous Religion ii. The Structure of Idolatrous Religion iii. The Content of Idolatrous Religion

b. ‘Remnantal’ Revelation c. ‘Influental’ Revelation d. ‘Demonic’ Revelation Summary

3. Defining Other Religions As Idolatrous Recognizes the Reality of Demonic Deception Behind Them

a. The ‘Dark Margin’ b. Demonic Identity and Co-Option

4. Defining the Other Religions As Idolatrous Interprets the Gospel of Jesus Christ As Being Their ‘Subversive Fulfilment’

a. The Gospel As Subversion b. The Gospel As Fulfilment

Conclusion

8. ‘A Light for the Gentiles’: Missiological Implications of ‘Subversive Fulfilment’

Introduction 1. A Brief Mission Statement

a. The Motivation for Mission b. The Comprehensiveness of Mission c. The Ultimacy of Evangelism In Mission d. The Elenctic Task of Mission

2. The Nature of Contextualization In Mission

a. Missional Theologizing b. Ecclesial Theologizing

3. Paul At the Areopagus: ‘Subversive Fulfilment’ Par Excellence 4. A Contemporary Example of Subversive Fulfilment (Sunni Islam) Conclusion: The Church As a Subversive-Fulfilment Community

9. ‘But I Have Raised You Up for This Very Purpose . . .’: Pastoral Perspectives On the Purpose of the Religious Other

Introduction 1. For God: Glory In Power, Judgment and Mercy

a. The Paradigm of the Exodus

i. Glory In Judgment ii. Glory In Salvation

b. The Pattern of Redemptive History

i. Old Testament ii. New Testament

2. For God’s World: Divine Restraint Through Religious Cohesion and Confusion 3. For God’s People: Preparatio and Possessio, Didactic and Disciplinary

a. Preparatio and Possessio

i. Missional Theologizing ii. Ecclesial Theologizing

b. Didactic and Disciplinary

i. Didactic ii. Disciplinary

Conclusion

1. Looking Backwards 2. Looking Forwards

Bibliography Index of Scripture References Index of Authors Index of Subjects

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