This article addresses the relationship between eschatological and present issues in Christian soteriological debates of the mid-twentieth century, particularly in post- colonial India. It focuses on the writings of Dhanjibhai Fakirbhai. As mystical views of Christian salvation can be criticized for their irrelevancy to secular society, Dhanjibhai presents a contrast to this in a type of mystical soteriology that breaks such critiques and complicates the usual categories of South Asian understandings. According to Dhanjibhai, “salvation” means to be in union with Jesus Christ, a spiritual faith-based relationship that extends into eternity but is also practically experienced in the world today. This article proceeds according to four key features of Dhanjibhai’s writings that demonstrate the holistic effects of union with Christ in his soteriology. I argue that Dhanjibhai alleviates the perceived problems of mystical approaches by presenting a soteriology that envelopes personal, social, and even ecological ramifications of salvation within a contextual evangelical framework.

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Dhanjibhai Fakirbhai 的救赎论中与基督神秘结合的整体效果

本文探讨了二十世纪中叶基督教救世论辩论中末世论与当前问题之间的关系，特别是在后殖民印度。它重点关注 Dhanjibhai Fakirbhai 的著作。由于基督教救赎的神秘观点可能因与世俗社会无关而受到批评，丹吉拜以一种神秘的救赎论与此形成鲜明对比，打破了这种批评并使南亚理解的通常范畴变得复杂化。根据丹吉巴伊的说法，“救赎”意味着与耶稣基督结合，这是一种基于精神信仰的关系，这种关系延伸到永恒，但在当今世界也能实际体验到。本文根据丹吉巴伊著作的四个关键特征展开，这些特征证明了在他的救赎论中与基督联合的整体效果。我认为，丹吉巴伊通过提出一种救赎论来缓解神秘方法的感知问题，该救赎论将救赎的个人、社会甚至生态影响纳入一个背景福音派框架内。