“I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me (Jn 14:6).” Fundamental postfoundational evangelism in a post- modern plural society.
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https://doi.org/10.17570/ngtt.2007.v48n3.a09Keywords:
Deconstruction, Evangelism, Locally Contextual, Postfoundational Theology, Postmodernity, Social Construction,Abstract
This article is an attempt to respond to the need for responsible evangelism in a post- modern plural society. This is a tremendous challenge for evangelism to be responsible both to the Christian tradition and the social context. The article interprets the context as a text - an infinite text with continuous différantial referring – and therefore this context obliges one to reread the texts of tradition with an acute awareness of différance. This awareness of différance opens a space not for strong truths of presence and absolutes, but for a messianic expectation or a messianic hope. This messianic hope creates space that is pregnant with expectation for justice and democracy to come through radical hospitality. The messianic way is a way of life that creates space for the other and in that way it is a way of being an evangelistic community.
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2007-12-31
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Meylahn, J. (2007). “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me (Jn 14:6).” Fundamental postfoundational evangelism in a post- modern plural society. NGTT | Nederduitse Gereformeerde Teologiese Tydskrif, 48(3&4). https://doi.org/10.17570/ngtt.2007.v48n3.a09
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