CSCA Christianity in Southeast Asia Series
Series editor: Michael Nai-Chiu Poon
(Published by Armour Publishing and Trinity Theological College, Singapore)
The CSCA Christianity in Southeast Asia Series consists of commissioned studies on present-day Christianity in Southeast Asia; specifically in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia. Contributors to this Series are mainly drawn from those in senior Christian leadership in the region. The papers presented here have often benefited from discussion in the regional conferences organised by the Centre for the Study of Christianity in Asia.
This Series aims to encourage much-needed theological reflections by local Christian practitioners on their own mission experiences. The past few decades has witnessed two significant shifts that have impacted how world Christianity is interpreted. First, social sciences now provide the fundamental categories for understanding religious worlds. Philosophical and theological disciplines are often dismissed as ideologically motivated and so no longer occupy the central role they once assumed. Secondly, world Christianity is now studied by academics who may have little first-hand cross-cultural and missionary experience; and even with no Christian conviction. This represents a significant change from the time when career missionaries were the chief exponents of world Christianity. Stephen Neill, John V. Taylor, Max Warren and Andrew Walls were perhaps among the last missionaries in the post World War II era from the old school. Missiological studies so runs the risk of becoming increasingly theoretical and academic, with little understanding of ground realities. World Christianity is often described and explained in concepts that may be alien to the Christian community. To be sure, these newer forms of scholarship have enriched and challenged our understanding of present-day Christianity. However, Christians cannot abdicate their own theological task in striving for an account of their own faith and mission tasks in Christian terms. This we owe to the faithful and to the wider communities we serve.
This Series hopes to introduce what Southeast Asian Christians think to the wider audience, in the hope that this would contribute towards a more rigorous account of world Christianity.
Published:
- No. 1 Daniel Koh and Kiem-Kiok Kwa, eds. Issues of Law and Justice in Singapore: Some Christian reflections (SGD 30)
- No. 2 Michael Poon, ed. Christian Movements in Southeast Asia: A theological exploration (SGD 20)
