Introducing Intercultural Theology and Ethics
Introducing Intercultural Theology and Ethics
Representing Jesus in a Postcolonial World
Patrick Krayer
2026 | 171pp pb | ISBN: 978-1-917059-75-6
We who choose to work interculturally as the Lord’s global servants, regardless of our being from the global south or north, have been slow to grasp the implications of living in a postcolonial world. We unknowingly often privilege our culturally bounded understandings of the gospel as we traverse cultures, causing us to make errors that hinder the spread of the gospel. This book helps us rethink what exactly is the gospel and how Jesus’s followers can freely live incarnationally in and among the many different cultures of the world, especially the cultures of the civilizational religions.
This is rigorous scholarship made accessible. The theological analysis will challenge academics; the practical implications will unsettle practitioners. Both groups desperately need to read it. Your cross-cultural ministry will never be the same.
Mark Harlan, Dallas International University
This book will travel far, engaging challenging theorists, enriching practitioners, and making a significant contribution to the global conversation on ethics and culture.
Satya Chakrapani, commentator on India’s political and social issues
An emancipatory journey that frees the mind from the stoicheia of monolithic thinking and opens new spaces for a more enriching encounter with the Living Word.
Claire TC Chong, Singapore Center for Global Missions
A remarkable book both in its scope and impressive engagement with how to minister the gospel of the Lord Jesus in a postcolonial world.
Robert L. Gallagher, Wheaton College Graduate School, Chicago
Introducing Intercultural Theology and Ethics empowers fresh, faithful, and dialogical witness to Jesus in the power of the Spirit for the twenty-first century world.
Amos Yong, Professor of Theology & Mission, Fuller Seminary
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Dedication ix
Acknowledgements xi
Abbreviations xiii
Introduction 1
1. Theological Starting Point: Culturally
Bounded or Interculturally Inclined? 9
2. Biblicality and Coloniality: Reading
Acts and Galatians to Understand These
Chronic Impediments to Intercultural
Theology and Ethics 27
3. God at Work in Culture:
A Kuyper-Influenced Perspective 47
4. Valuing Religious Cultures: Gleaning
from the Gospel According to Matthew 63
5. Reading Ephesians 5:22-33 to
Facilitate Intercultural Theologising 77
6. The Gospel and Intercultural Theology 99
7. Introducing Intercultural Ethics 113
8. Intercultural Ethics in Action 125
Conclusion 141
References Cited 145
About the Author
About the Author
Patrick Krayer, along with his wife, Joan, worked in South Asia for nearly 30 years. Dr Krayer’s focus was to represent Christ and facilitate the formation and growth of Christ-centered communities. He was also the executive director of the US office of a faith-based global organization and has taught graduate courses at Missio Seminary, Dallas International University, and Fuller Theological Seminary.
Endorsements
Endorsements
This is rigorous scholarship made accessible. The theological analysis will challenge academics; the practical implications will unsettle practitioners. Both groups desperately need to read it. Your cross-cultural ministry will never be the same.
Mark Harlan, Dallas International University
This book will travel far, engaging challenging theorists, enriching practitioners, and making a significant contribution to the global conversation on ethics and culture.
Satya Chakrapani, commentator on India’s political and social issues
An emancipatory journey that frees the mind from the stoicheia of monolithic thinking and opens new spaces for a more enriching encounter with the Living Word.
Claire TC Chong, Singapore Center for Global Missions
A remarkable book both in its scope and impressive engagement with how to minister the gospel of the Lord Jesus in a postcolonial world.
Robert L. Gallagher, Wheaton College Graduate School, Chicago
Introducing Intercultural Theology and Ethics empowers fresh, faithful, and dialogical witness to Jesus in the power of the Spirit for the twenty-first century world.
Amos Yong, Professor of Theology & Mission, Fuller Seminary
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