Accommodation and Acceptance

"With his trademark scholarly rigor and intellectual honesty Ambrose Mong explores one of the most challenging issues facing Christianity in Asia today. For him, accommodation and acceptance of Asian religious pluralism is not an option for Christianity but an imperative for its mission. Ambrose masterfully shows the way how Christian faith needs to be reconceptualized in its encounter with Asian religions, from Christology to ecclesiology to Trinitarian theology. This book is a must-read not only for Asian Christians but also, and one may argue, especially, for Western Christians." Professor Peter C. Phan, Ellacuria Chair of Catholic Social Thought, Georgetown University "A welcome addition to the existing corpus of scholoarly work on interfaith relations, as [Mong] has not only surveyed in depth various scholars and theologians who have written about the relations between different world religions. ... [H]e has also insightfully engaged in comparative analysis of their ideas which can strike chords with the contemporary religious adherents looking for philosophical frameworks and theological lenses to understand religious differences that have become an unescapable reality in our globalised world." James Ponniah, Exchange, 46, 2017 "In short, this is a very worthy and interesting book that adds a further solid volume to these discussions. In particular, I would recommend it to Western theologians and scholars who may not have given due thought to the Asian context which is so vital for thinking these issues. Scholars in Asia will also no doubt welcome the particular case studies that help us think about specific thinkers in the theology of religions again." Paul Michael Hedges, Christian Study Center on Chinese Religion and Culture Ching Feng