Towards a Christian World-View:Theological Explorations

In this article the author briefly discusses some of the theological views he holds. He has been engaged in learn­- ing and teaching theology for about fifty years. During the course of these years he has gained some theological insights and acquired certain theological convictions. It is these that he tries to articulate here. What is said here is necessarily tentative and incomplete. Then carefully and cautiously, he summarizes his theologi­- cal position on the following topics: God; The Human Person; The World: Jesus Christ; The Church as a Divine-Human Reality; and The Mission of the Church. Essentially these reflections are liberative, life-affirming, future-oriented an hope-based. His focus has been to evolve a vision of Church’s understand­- ing of mission as comprehensive, service-oriented and reso­- nating with the Kingdom of God. It is possible t h a t all our ministries - be they frontier mission, pastoral work, educa­- tion, health services or social involvement - be directed to the fulfilment of this mission. This may, however, call for a radical reorientation of our ministries