Constructing a Theology of Relational Life Through the Themes of Creation, Incarnation, and Re-Creation as an Alternative to Current Categories of Religions

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ID5805257
AuthorsAndrew Tompkins (0000-0002-6044-2316, Andrews University, corresponding author)
Year2019
Publication date2019-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeTHESIS
PublisherJames White Library (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.32597/dissertations/1672
OpenAlexW4214847942
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited19

This dissertation argues that current categories of religions are overly reliant on Western Enlightenment-based presuppositions and academic thinking that creates barriers in understanding God's desire for all people to have abundant life. Many theologians and missiologists utilize these inherited categories without first subjecting them to the biblical canon. As a result, the theological and missiological discourse on religions is often grounded in extra-biblical presuppositions rooted primarily in an overly high view of human reason that do not accurately portray a biblical approach to relational life. These presuppositions do not accurately portray a biblical approach to relational life. I, therefore, compared and contrasted categories of religions as they have been developed with the description of relational life found in the biblical passages of Genesis 1-3, John 1:1-18, and Revelation 20-22, which I argue are theologically central to the biblical canon

Incarnation · Presupposition · Revelation · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Christian Theology and Mission · Pentecostalism and Christianity Studies

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