"This volume is both a manifesto and a research program, critically evaluating the last forty years of Christian treatments of religious others and proposing a comprehensive direction for the future. It addresses issues relating to the religions in both systematic theology and missiology, taking up long-debated questions such as contextualization, salvation, revelation, the relationship between culture and religion, conversion, social action, and ecumenism. It concludes with responses from four leading thinkers of African, Asian, and European backgrounds: Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen, Vinoth Ramachandra, Lamin Sanneh, and Christine Schirrmacher"--Page 4 of cover.

Part One. Central Issues -- Theology of religions and evangelicals -- The triune God -- Revelation and the religions -- Salvation and conversion -- The Christian life -- Religion(s) and culture(s) -- Christian witness in a multireligious world -- Part Two. Responses -- 1. Lamin Sanneh -- 2. Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen -- 3. Vinoth Ramachandra -- 4. Christine Schirrmacher -- Continuing the conversation: a few last words.