"No other name!" The Contribution of Byang H. Kato to the Salvation Debate
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Wouter Theodoor van Veelen
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Leiden
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Brill
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This article attempts to investigate the contribution of the African evangelical theologian and church leader Byang H. Kato (1936-1975) to the salvation debate in the early 1970s. Due to his radical standpoint and at times uncompromising tone, Kato's soteriological proposals have been characterized as a reproduction of western theology. This article aims to demonstrate that, rather than reiterating a specific American or western concept of theology, Kato's soteriology should be read as a contextual evangelical response to the ongoing theological debates of his time. This article attempts to investigate the contribution of the African evangelical theologian and church leader Byang H. Kato (1936-1975) to the salvation debate in the early 1970s. Due to his radical standpoint and at times uncompromising tone, Kato's soteriological proposals have been characterized as a reproduction of western theology. This article aims to demonstrate that, rather than reiterating a specific American or western concept of theology, Kato's soteriology should be read as a contextual evangelical response to the ongoing theological debates of his time.