Open AccessA.B. Simpson’s Fourfold Gospel in the Evangelical Church of Vietnam: A Study of Selective Theological Assimilation
Author(s) -
Nguyen Vinh Duy
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
asia journal of theology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 0218-0812
DOI - 10.54424/ajt.v35i2.10
Subject(s) - gospel , theology , vietnamese , context (archaeology) , religious studies , assimilation (phonology) , alliance , sociology , philosophy , history , linguistics , archaeology
The officially distinctive mark of the Evangelical Church of Vietnam (ECVN) is the Fourfold Gospel emblem. It is inherited from A.B. Simpson, the founder of the Christian and Missionary Alliance (C&MA), through the teaching of C&MA missionaries in Vietnam. However, ECVN adapted some of the teachings and reinterpreted the symbols in the Vietnamese context. The reason is that the assimilation of the Fourfold Gospel to the ECVN’s theology has been selected through a fundamentalistic perspective and a serious uneasiness about Pentecostalism, and hence, it has become disconnected from its original theological foundation.