{"product_id":"humble-confidence-a-model-for-interfaith-apologetics-9780830852949","title":"Humble Confidence: A Model for Interfaith Apologetics","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eChristianity Today\u003c\/i\u003e Award of Merit\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eToday's cosmopolitan, multicultural, and multifaith environments call for new approaches to apologetics.\u003c\/b\u003e The world still needs the good news of Jesus Christ, but to relate the transcultural gospel to diverse and ever-changing contexts, we must free Christian apologetics from dominant Western habits of mind ill-suited to interreligious dialogue. We must listen and speak with both humility and confidence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBenno van den Toren and Kang-San Tan provide a global, intercultural introduction to Christian apologetics. They present a model of apologetics as crosscultural dialogue and accountable witness, then explore how it plays out in relation to specific contexts and the major world religions--including primal religions, Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, secularism, and late-modern spiritualities. Building on recent developments in apologetics and missiology, as well as their experience teaching internationally in Europe, Asia, and Africa, Van den Toren and Tan offer an approach that is conversational, patient, holistic, and embodied.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFilled with examples from Scripture and real-world experiences, \u003ci\u003eHumble Confidence\u003c\/i\u003e gives readers a travel guide to help find the most effective avenues for true dialogue in their own settings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eKang-San Tan (PhD, Aberdeen University) is general director of BMS World Mission. He is also chair of the Commission on Mission and provides leadership for the Global Baptist Mission Network of the Baptist World Alliance, and he has previously served as head of mission studies at Redcliffe College and executive director of AsiaCMS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBenno van den Toren (PhD, Theological University in Kampen) is professor of intercultural theology at the Protestant Theological University in Groningen, the Netherlands. He has taught in French-speaking Africa and at Wycliffe Hall at Oxford University, and his books include \u003ci\u003eChristian Apologetics as Cross-Cultural Dialogue\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eReasons for My Hope: Responding to Non-Christian Friends\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"IVP Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50648300716306,"sku":"9780830852949","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d3e47d41-9be4-41e3-b616-f81948bb081d.jpg?v=1733238946","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/humble-confidence-a-model-for-interfaith-apologetics-9780830852949","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}