The Art of Contextual Theology : Doing Theology in the Era of World Christianity
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Christianity has an inherent capability to assume, as its novel mode of expression, the local idioms, customs, and thought forms of a new cultural frontier that it encounters. As a result, Christianity has become multicultural and multilingual. What is the role of theology in the imagination and articulation of Christianity's inherent multiculturalism and multi-vernacularity? Victor Ezigbo examines this question by exploring the nature and practice of contextual theology. To accomplish this task, this book engages the main genres of contextual theology, explores echoes of contextual theological thinking in some of Jesus's sayings, and discusses insights into contextual theology that can be discerned in the discourses on theology and caste relations (Dalit theology), theology and primal cultures (African theology), and theology and poverty (Latin American liberation theology)
Department(s)
Biblical and Theological Studies
ISBN
9781725259287
Publication Date
2021
Publisher
Cascade Books
City
Eugene, OR
Disciplines
Christianity | International and Area Studies | Religious Thought, Theology and Philosophy of Religion
Recommended Citation
Ezigbo, Victor I., "The Art of Contextual Theology : Doing Theology in the Era of World Christianity" (2021). Faculty Books. 9.
https://spark.bethel.edu/faculty-books/9