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[Missionswissenschaft]; especially valuable today for his appraisal of missionary thought and motivation from the Reformation through the founding of the Protestant missionary societies. Zwemer, Samuel M. "Calvinism and the Missionary Enterprise," in Theology
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Men. London: Edinburgh House Press, 1959. Paperback.
Beginning with the great doctrines of the Christian faith, the author tries to interpret Jesus Christ as good news to men of other faiths. Ashby, Philip H. The Conflict of Religions. New York: Charles Scribner's
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A challenging appeal for a united witness of the major religions in meeting the problems of mankind. The Authority of the Faith. Vol. I in The Tambaram-Maadras Series. 7 vols.
~ London: Oxford University Press, 1939.
This important symposium continued the Tambaram debate concerning "discontinuity" and "Biblical realism," with essays by Hendrik Kraemer, Walter Marshall Horton, Karl Hartenstein, David G. Moses, H. H. Farmer, and others. Baillie, John. The Idea of Revelation in Recent Thought. New York: Columbia University Press, 1956.
. The Interpretation of Religion. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928.
, and Martin, Hugh (eds.). Revelation. London: Faber and Faber, 1937. A symposium, now out of print, with essays by Gustaf Aulen, Karl Barth, Sergium Bulgakoff, M. C. D'Arcy, T. S. Eliot, Walter M. Horton, and William Temple. Bavinck, John H. The Impact of Christianity on the Non-Christian World.
Grand Rapids, Michigan: W. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1948.
A scholarly study by a conservative Dutch missionary theologian. Bennett, John C. Christianity and Communism Today. New York: Associa-
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A penetrating Christian analysis by the Dean of Union Theological Seminary in New York. Bouquet, A. C. The Christian Faith and Non-Christian Religions. London:
James Nisbet and Co.; New York: Harper and Brothers, 1958.
The author has a preference for the larger view of revelation "supported by Séderblom and William Temple, as against the opinions of Witte and Kraemer."
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Brunner, Emil. Die Christusbotschaft im Kampf mit den Religionen. Stutt-
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The struggle of the Christian message with the religions. The Christian Life and Message in Relation to Non-Christian Systems of
Thought and Life. Vol. I of The Jerusalem Meeting of the International Missionary Council, March 24-A pril 8, 1928. 8 vols. London: Oxford University Press, 1928.
A symposium of essays and reports that are important for an understanding of the evolution of mission theology among Protestants in the twentieth century. Cragg, Kenneth. The Call of the Minaret. New York: Oxford University
Press, 1956.
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Both these books, by an Anglican missionary scholar, are concerned with the Christian understanding of Islam in the modern world and the Christian response to it. Devanandan, Paul D. The Gospel and Renascent Hinduism. London: SCM
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This English scholar reminds Christians not to exclude the possibility that God may also have truly spoken to men through other channels.
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King's Crown Press, 1948.
A scholarly survey of the Christian relationship to the Children of Israel and a suggested theological basis for a Christian approach to the Jewish question. Extensive bibliographical references. Eliade, Mircea and Kitagawa, Joseph M. (eds.). The History of Religions: _— Essays in Methodology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1959. — Essays by Benz, Daniélou, W. C. Smith, Heiler, and others, that point out the new significance and relevance of studies in the history of religions for the theology of mission. a Farmer, Herbert H. Revelation and Religion. Studies in the T. heological
Interpretation of Religious Types. London: James Nisbet and Co., 1954. Farquhar, John N. The Crown of Hinduism. London: Oxford University ——
Press, 1913.
The thesis of this controversial study was that Christ can create a substitute which would preserve and "crown" all that is good in Hinduism. Forman, Charles W. A Christian's Handbook on Communism. Rev. ed. New | = York: Committee on World Literacy and Christian Literature, National 3 Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., 1955. Paperback.
A concise treatment with suggested reading list.
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"Phidnomenologie der Religion" von Gerardus van der Leeuw. Miinchen: Chr. Kaiser Verlag, 1960. (Beitrage zur evangelischen Theologie, Band 30.) Paperback. The author's doctoral dissertation; a study in Gerardus van der Leeuw's concept of "The Phenomenology of Religion." Hocking, William Ernest. Living Religions and a World Faith. London:
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An outstanding study, first published in 1924, issued now in a new edition, revised by Charles S. Braden.
Jones, E. Stanley. The Christ of the Indian Road. New York: Abingdon
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A thoughtful presentation of the Christian mission, especially as related to the challenge in India, by the noted American Methodist missionary evangelist.
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Human and Creative Relationships with the World's Cultures and Faiths. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1952. Kraemer, Hendrik. The Christian Message in a Non-Christian World. Published for the International Missionary Council in London: Edinburgh House Press; New York: Harper & Brothers, 1938.
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TMG meeting at Madras in 1938 and emphasized "Biblical realism" and "discontinuity."
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The approach and material are new, the author's exegetical study of the Biblical data is especially valuable, but his position is basically unchanged from that in his earlier book.
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Studies which assess the Christian mission in Asia. See especially the chapter by J. Russell Chandran, "The Christian Approach to nonChristian Religions," pp. 185-209. Moses, David G. Religious Truth and the Relation between Religions.
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A challenging study by an Indian scholar who maintains that the criterion of religious truth must be sought in the essential nature of religion itself, in terms of the fundamental needs which it satisfies, in the conservation, creation, and practical realization in life of values. Bibliography included. Niles, Daniel T. The Preacher's Task andthe Stone = Stumbling. New
York: Harper & Brothers, 1958. (The Lyman Beecher Lectures for 1957.)
An ecumenical leader from Ceylon deals with the question "What is the nature of the existence of the Christian message in a nonChristian world?" Ohm, Thomas, O.S.B. Die Liebe zu Gott in den nichtchristlichen Religionen.
Die Tatsachen der Religionsgeschichte und die christliche T. neces Krailling vor Minchen: Erich Wewel Verlag, 1950. aes The noted Catholic missiologist in Minster presents in this massive volume, rich in bibliographical references, a masterful study on the love of God in non-Christian religions. Perry, Edmund. The Gospel in Dispute. The Relation of Christian Faith to —
Other Missionary Religions. Garden City, New Yous Doubleday and Co., 1958. Ke The author is an American Methodist who says that all poacher > faiths "not only are unable to bring men to God, they actually lead — men away from God and hold them captive from God." Phillips, Godfrey Edward. The Transmission of the Faith. London: Lu
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The philosophy of religion treated from the comparative point of view by a non-Christian who is Vice-President of India and former Professor of Eastern Religions at Oxford University.
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. Recovery of Faith. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1955. The author seeks a transcendent unity of religions. Rosenkranz, Gerhard. Evangelische Religionskunde. Einfiihrung in eine theologische Schau der Religionen. Tiibingen: J. C. B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1951.
An effort toward understanding the living religions in light of the
Christian truth; includes seven pages of bibliography. Ross, Floyd H. Addressed to Christians: Isolationism vs. World Community.
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all peoples of the world. Schuon, Frithjof. The Transcendent Unity of Religions. London: Faber and
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by Johanna Powers, with a Foreword by Nathaniel Micklem. New York: Henry Holt, 1939; The Macmillan Co., 1951. Original title: Das Christentum und die Weltreligionen. 2nd ed. Miinchen: C. H. Beck, 1925. Smith, Wilfred Cantwell. "Christianity's Third Great Challenge," in Chris-
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An American Quaker view. Toynbee, Arnold. Christianity Among the Religions of the World. New
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An analysis of the present world situation, of the threat to Chris-
tianity from the revival of other religions, and a call for a spiritual revival within Christianity to meet the challenge.