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Asian Christian Ethics provides an introduction for students to a range of key topics related to Christian ethics in Asia. Fifteen Christian scholars from across Asia and from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds demonstrate how to think theologically and contextually about key ethical issues, as well as describe best practices in Christian moral formation. Ideal for use as a companion textbook in Asian seminaries and institutions as well as the wider Asian diaspora, readers will be introduced to a wide range of topics all while upholding the authority of the Bible, the centrality of Christ, and the transforming power of the Holy Spirit.

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Religion

Christianisme

Philosophie et théologie

Christian Theology

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Publié par	Langham Creative Projects
Date de parution	26 septembre 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781839737404
Langue	English

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Asian Christian Ethics: Evangelical Perspectives allows you to enter an energizing contemporary conversation in evangelical Christian ethics. The authors engage both personal and social ethics shaped by the particularities of their contexts. For them, “Asian” is not simply a colonial generalization but is produced through multiple specific histories and cultures. Embedded in the histories are ongoing dialogues between Christian and non-Christian religions, between those with power and those without, and between Christians who may deeply disagree. The resulting dialogue reshapes some of the dominant “Western” methods in Christian ethics and enriches ethical conversations in their home countries, their continent, and in the wider Christian world.
Elizabeth M. Bounds, PhD
Associate Professor of Christian Ethics,
Candler School of Theology, Emory University, Atlanta, USA
Asia, the largest continent on earth, is marked by the similarity of its nations and yet its stark diversity. This collection of articles written by eminent scholars and thinkers makes an important contribution on the most crucial theme of ethics from the Christian perspective. Its comprehensive treatment of the topics from both personal morality and corporate ethical questions, makes it a must for the students of Asia and other continents. It provides a wide range of thinking at the cutting edge of challenges that face followers of Christ in these times. May I appeal to theological colleges and those interested in this vital theme to have this volume as a learning resource to be more impactful in the present turmoil of our nations.
Ashish Chrispal, PhD
Senior Advisor,
Overseas Council, United World Mission, South Asia
This collection of essays is a valuable work that demonstrates how Asian Christian ethicists are engaging their contexts seriously and discerning how to live faithful, integrated lives as disciples of Christ. It enriches our understanding of the gospel and inspires our imagination of what faithful discipleship can look like through diverse cultural lenses. The diverse expressions of faithful discipleship within global churches are a powerful witness to the catholicity of the gospel, for the gospel is for all nations and people in all cultures.
David Doong, PhD
General Secretary,
Chinese Coordination Centre of World Evangelism, Kowloon, Hong Kong
This book contains a treasure of Asian Christian ethical reflections from senior theologians and ethicists to younger thinkers and emerging leaders across Asia. The various essays show confidence in articulating Asian perspectives yet at the same time are critically self-aware of one’s situatedness within a globally interconnected world. The essays do not shy away from engaging controversial social issues such as caste, homosexuality, poverty, political engagement, and religious violence, as well as the care of creation. In the midst of reading the analysis and proposals offered by the contributors, readers will be further challenged to avoid replacing an uncritical adoption of Western Christian ethical thinking with a romanticized version of Asian Christian ethics. This book is an important contribution that is not only relevant to the Asian context, but also to trans-contextual conversations concerning doing Christian ethics in a world full of unending conflicts and entangled complex causes that cannot be resolved with simplistic answers.
Rev. Sivin Kit, PhD
Program Executive for Public Theology and Interreligious relations,
The Lutheran World Federation, Switzerland
Given that Asia is the largest continent in the world and will have the fastest growth rate of Christians in the twenty-first century, we have good reason to do theology for ethical issues in this part of the world. Moreover, though there are many books on Christian ethics, Asian contextual theology, Asian evangelicalism, and evangelical ethics, there is a dearth of books on ethics from an Asian as well as evangelical standpoint. This book is thus unique among Christian publications. It deals with personal and social ethical issues arising in Asia’s pluralistic context, which is a symbiosis of diverse cultural, religious, and racial identities. Its multidisciplinary and integrative approach recognizes the complexities of the ethical issues faced in Asia and deals with the subject matter head-on by grounding itself in biblical truth and a godly life in this fallen world.
Rev. Clement Mook-Soo Chia, PhD
Principal,
Singapore Bible College
Reading this book has challenged and corrected this Western evangelical ethicist in many ways! The rich collection of reflections by gifted Asian scholars in this volume is a gift to all of us who care about how obedience to the gospel can take shape in a diversity of Asian contexts.
Richard Mouw, PhD
President Emeritus,
Fuller Theological Seminary, California, USA
This book explores various ethical issues that Asians encounter in their daily lives. The voices we hear through this book come from different Asian contexts, rooted in the biblical tradition. Whether one comes from an evangelical background or otherwise, the book is a good read for students in Christian ethics, church leaders, and the people on the pew. The questions at the end of each chapter stimulate one to discern how to approach these moral issues in the private and public spheres.
Muriel Orevillo-Montenegro, PhD
Professor of Theology and Social Ethics,
Divinity School, Silliman University, Philippines
Asian Christian Ethics, edited by Aldrin M. Peñamora and Bernard K. Wong, is an outstanding reflection on Christian ethics in the Asian continent. Several works on ethics have come out in recent decades but the Christian evangelical perspectives this work has decisively given are a fresh contribution.
Three things attracted my attention. First is the definitive option to be holistic in its method. Eschewing unitary methodology and Western secularist view of ethics, it incorporates not only the Bible – which is characteristic of all evangelical reflection – but also input from other Asian religions (e.g. Confucianism, Buddhist, Gandhian, Dalits), and ethical wisdom from other indigenous religions. Some reflections are decisively personal but they are also social and cosmic. As the axiom goes: “the most personal is the most social.”
Second, these ethical reflections start from everyday life relevant to Asia, and end with their relevance to the same: family, marriage, and sexuality; business and the market, corruption and politics; the sick, elderly, and people with disabilities; the question of suffering and the good life; and issues of peace and reconciliation in our violent and conflict-ridden world.
Third, these reflections have taken the option of the marginalized and the excluded by looking at their suffering, resistance, and wisdom through an ethics of care, embrace, and embodiedness prophetically proclaiming the suffering and risen Jesus as the ultimate imago Dei .
This book is a must-read for all Christian and non-Christian ethicists, theologians, religious thinkers, and practitioners in Asia and beyond.
Daniel Franklin E. Pilario, PhD
Dean,
St. Vincent School of Theology, Adamson University, Manila
Context, context, context. Context means everything for ethics. Goodness finds expression in how individuals and communities flesh out their vision of the moral life in particular contexts. Especially so for Christianity, for whom Christ’s incarnation fleshes out God’s goodness in the context of creation in all of its complexity and possibility. This wonderful collection of essays does all that for Asia, and takes the intimidatingly large category of “Asian Christian ethics” and beautifully brings it home in contexts that give new life to Christian moral reflection. I love this book, the very idea of it, the very possibility (and impossibility) of it, and certainly the actual expression of it.
Jonathan Tran, PhD
Associate Professor of Philosophical Theology,
George W. Baines Chair of Religion,
Baylor University, Texas, USA
True to the evangelical tradition, this work is Bible-centered while at the same time deeply conscious of, and sensitive to, the cultural and contextual situation of Asian societies. Here is a volume that broaches not only issues of personal transformation but also many momentous social, political, economic, and environmental questions of contemporary times. The authors and editors have attempted to chart a new Asian ethical course and navigate, in the light of God’s word, many grey areas and complex moral issues. The contours of an Asian approach to ethics, different from the classical Western one, stand out in bold relief, especially by invoking Asian experiences of suffering, poverty, and marginalization. For all these reasons and its clarity and comprehensive presentation, this volume deserves to be an excellent textbook for Asian Christian ethics.
Felix Wilfred, PhD
Professor Emeritus, School of Philosophy and Religious Thought,
State University of Madras, India

The Foundations in Asian Christian Thought series offers accessible and innovative introductions to key topics that are biblically rooted, contextually engaged and theologically rich. In each volume, a mixture of seasoned and rising scholars from all over Asia with a shared commitment to genuinely contextual reflection and the primary authority of Scripture introduce readers to major issues, identifying the key contributions of Asian Christians to the global theological conversation. In addition to introducing readers to the dynamic landscape of Asian Christian thought, each book also includes constructive proposals regarding how Christians can wisely advance the development of Asian biblical and theological reflection.
Titles in the Series
Asian Christian Theology
2019 | 9781783686438
Asian Christian Ethics
2022 | 9781839730740
Exploring the Old Testament in Asia
2022 | 97818397