Hendrik Kraemer's Christian Message in a Non-Christian World: A Magnum Opus after Seventy-Five Years

Transforming Mission is a mission book that deals with developments inside Christianity, but Christian Message deals with all religions and all worldviews of the time. [...]Christian Message played a singular role in ending the optimism of the missionary movement of the nineteenth century and early...

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Published in:International bulletin of mission research 2013-10, Vol.37 (4), p.203-206
Main Author: Jongeneel, Jan A. B.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Analysis
Bible
Christianity
Kraemer, Hendrik
Religion
Religious missions
Shinto
Studies
Theology
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Summary:Transforming Mission is a mission book that deals with developments inside Christianity, but Christian Message deals with all religions and all worldviews of the time. [...]Christian Message played a singular role in ending the optimism of the missionary movement of the nineteenth century and early twentieth century that one day the whole human community would embrace Jesus as its Master and Messiah, and the entire world would become Christian. Christian Message is a great plea to replace the anthropocentrism then ruling Christian theology and Christian missions and to enthrone theocentrism and christocentrism. [...]Christian Message emphasizes that the Bible does not view God in an impersonal way-as the first cause of the universe or absolute mind-but as a holy person with whom we can communicate in personal and communal prayers and hymns.
ISSN:0272-6122
2396-9393
2396-9407
DOI:10.1177/239693931303700404