Contemporizing Christian Theological Trends in Pakistan An Analytical Critique of Christian Discourses Since 1970
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2020
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When Christianity came out from European peninsula and it was promulgated in Africa and Asia by the Christian missionaries under the patronage of colonial powers, Christian missionaries and theologians faced several problems in order to relate Christian message and faith because of the cultural diversity in their mission fields. In the beginning, they did not pay heed to their host cultures, religions and philosophical traditions however latter they realized that in order to relate Christian message with the lives of the new converts, there is an immense need to contemporize/contextualize Christian message in the indigenous cultures. So, they argued that that no theology is absolute and all the theologies, especially the western Christian theology,
developed in the western environment is contextual and to incarnate Christian teachings and faith, they had to develop a theology relevant to the live of new converts. This study investigates the aspects of Christian theology developed in the particular context of Pakistan by using the methods of content analysis and semi-structured interviews.