There are far too many keen insights and penetrating critiques in Simon Chan’s Grassroots Asian Theology to be contained in a few topics or a few quotes but here are a few that stuck out to me. On changing the world “In spite of a lack of theology of engagement, […]
Late last year, Mike Bird called Simon Chan’s Grassroots Asian Theology ‘one of the best books of the year’ in 2013. So, what is grassroots Asian theology? Here are some quotes, emphases mine. On Theology “Postmodern theologians, having quite rightly done away with positivistic view of doctrines as universal timeless […]
You hear stories from time to time of missionaries who become pluralists relativists. I can see how it happens. It might be that you go into another culture with the idea that you’re bringing something unique, only to discover that it’s already there. Red Twin tells me that it’s a […]
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