Tending the Seedbeds. Educational Perspectives on Theological Education in Asia. ed. Allan Harkness, Asia Theological Association, Quezon City, Philippines, 2010. 306 pages.
This volume is a series of various papers published to recognise the 40th anniversary of the Asian Theological Association.
Allan Harkness has done a fine job of commissioning these papers and then sequencing and introducing them as a coherent whole.
The publication of the papers is a symbol of two things. First, the emerging sophistication and strength of the church in the Asian part of the two-thirds world. Secondly, the ongoing western impact on the Asian scene. As Harkness notes, six of the 12 contributors (including this reviewer) are western males.
The papers in this book are all written within a broadly Asian perspective and to an Asian audience. However, there are universals here and these give the book a currency beyond its immediate context.
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