Foreword
Peter C. Phan
Introduction
Patrick Oden and Peter Goodwin Heltzel
Part One. Exploring Kärkkäinen’s Project: Response to Method
1.Kärkkäinen’s Christ and Reconciliation: An Appreciative Response
John C. Peckham
2.Affirmation and Critique: An Evangelical Appraisal of Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen’s Trinity and Revelation
Sung Wook Chung
3. Constructive Theology with an Eye to Creation and Humanity: Engaging Kärkkäinen’s Third Volume of A Constructive Theology for the Pluralistic World
Daniel Castelo
4.The Many Tongues of the Spirit? Interpreting Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen’s A Constructive Christian Theology for [a] Pluralistic World
Amos Yong
5.Where in the World is the Kingdom? An Antiracist Critique of Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen’s Hope and Community
Peter Goodwin Heltzel and Christian T. Collins Winn
Part Two. Global Responses
6.Engaging the Constructive Theology of Veli-Matti Kӓrkkӓinen: On Christ, the Spirit, and “spirits” in African Reformed Perspective
Esther E. Acolatse
7.Liberationist Theology in Latin American/Caribbean History
Samuel Cruz
8.Is the Church a Missional or a Sacramental Community? Exploring the Ecclesiological and Ecumenical Message of Kärkkäinen’s Magnum Opus from a European Roman Catholic Perspective
Peter De Mey
9.The Global Theology of Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen: A Free Church View from Down Under
Myk Habets
10.Jesus the Eagle in North American Indigenous Theology
Randy S. Woodley
11.The Commensurability between Kärkkäinen and Chinese Confucianism on the Topic of Natural Theology
Zhiqiu Xu
Part Three. Interreligious and Interdisciplinary Perspectives
12.A Theology for the Anthropocene
Dorothy Boorse
13.The Shortcomings of Law: Reflections on the Role of Biblical Law in Kärkkäinen and the Law in Contemporary Society
John C. Fleming
14.Zen Eye on Triune Mystery: Buddhist Light on Christian Life and Faith
Ruben L. F. Habito
15.Christian Diversity, Religious Plurality, and Kärkkäinen’s Constructive Theology
Todd M. Johnson
16.Hospitality, Mutual Immanence and Creativity: A Process Engagement with Kärkkäinen’s Hospitality and Religious Dialogue
Rafael Reyes III
17.Everything is Everything: Reevaluating Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen’s ‘Theology of Everything’ and Social Location
Jason S. Sexton
18.The Role of Social Justice in a Theology of Reconciliation: Bringing Together King and Kärkkäinen
Patrick T. Smith
Response: The (Im)Possibility of Doing Constructive Theology for the Ruptured World
Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen