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In The Gospel in the Western Context, Gert-Jan Roest focuses on discerning a Western contextual gospel, an endeavour that is very relevant to the current state of Christianity in the postmodern and post-Christendom West. After giving an in-depth analysis and synthesis of how Hendrikus Berkhof and Colin Gunton read the Western context and contextualize their Christology, he develops a gospel-centred model for reading the context. Meanwhile, he makes a creative and much-needed attempt to connect the two disciplines of systematic theology and missiology and convincingly shows that both disciplines cannot only enrich one another but also can give church practitioners insight and wisdom for their tasks.
Price: $90.00
Pages: 426
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Studies in Reformed Theology
Publication Date:
25 October 2018
ISBN: 9789004386471
Format: Paperback
"Roest’s approach is thoroughly based on theological reflection of Berkhof’s and Gunton’s legacies, combined with much praxis-informed analysis. The results are quite intriguing, for the gospel-centred model for reading the context – with the help of keen specialists like Lesslie Newbigin, Chris Wright, James Dunn et alia – turns out to be a promising avenue, because the hermeneutical key to the proposed model is provided by the gospel story." Revd Prof. Dr Henk Bakker, in: Journal of European Baptist Studies Volume 19.1 (2019)
Gert-Jan Roest, Ph.D. (2016), Free University Amsterdam, is part-time teacher of missiology at the Theological University Kampen, The Netherlands. For fifteen years he worked as a church-planter and evangelist in Amsterdam.