Contextual Theology

Author : Angie Pears
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781134115679

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Doing Contextual Theology by Angie Pears Pdf

Christian theology, like all forms of knowledge, thinking and practice, arises from and is influenced by the context in which it is done. In Doing Contextual Theology, Angie Pears demonstrates the radically contextual nature of Christian theology by focusing on five forms of liberation theology: Latin American Liberation Theologies; Black Theologies; Feminist Informed Theologies; Sexual Theologies; Body Theologies. Pears analyses how each of these asserts a clear and persistent link to the Christian tradition through The Bible and Christology and discusses the implications of contextual and local theologies for understanding Christianity as a religion. Moreover, she considers whether fears are justified that a radically contextual reading of Christian theologies leads to a relativist understanding of the religion, or whether these theologies share some form of common identity both despite and because of their contextual nature. Doing Contextual Theology offers students a clear and up-to-date survey of the field of contemporary liberation theology and provides them with a sound understanding of how contextual theology works in practice.

Author : Steve Bevans
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004363083

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Essays in Contextual Theology by Steve Bevans Pdf

A collection of essays on the nature of contextual theology, criteria for orthodoxy, prophetic dialogue, conversion, culture and other relevant topics as Christian faith and particular contexts encounter one another.

Author : Sigurd Bergmann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781351932806

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God in Context by Sigurd Bergmann Pdf

In the 1970s theologians in Asia and Africa showed an interest in the way different cultural contexts influenced the interpretation of Christian belief. Manifestations of contextual theologies have since appeared in many parts of the world; animated international discussion about expressions, methods and theories for contextual theology have continued with the spread of contextual theology from the South to the North.. The object of these theologies is to shed new light on the concept of incarnation. How does the incarnated God act in a liberating way? Contextual theology explores awareness of the interrelatedness of God and culture. This book surveys important concepts, positions and problems of contextual theology, dealing with different criteria for the interpretation of 'context' and providing explanations of different theoretical models for contextual theology. Particular topics discussed include: the importance of place for the experience of God; a dynamic, correlative and communicative view of tradition; the approach to knowledge in contextualism and the greater right of the poor to aesthetic knowledge; human ecological formation of theology, and the contributions of pictorial art and architecture to contextual theology. Clearly explaining the importance of contextual theology for all theology, this book offers an invaluable text for students and others exploring theology in context.

Author : Stephen B. Bevans
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608330263

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Models of Contextual Theology by Stephen B. Bevans Pdf

Stephen B Bevans's Models of Contextual Theology has become a staple in courses on theological method and as a handbook used by missioners and other Christians concerned with the Christian tradition's understanding of itself in relation to culture. First published in 1992 and now in its seventh printing in English, with translations underway into Spanish, Korean, and Indonesian, Bevans's book is a judicious examination of what the terms "contextual theology" and "to contextualize" mean. In the revised and expanded edition, Bevans adds a "counter-cultural" model to the five presented in the first edition -- the translation, the anthropological, the praxis, the synthetic, and the transcendental model. This means that readers will be introduced to the way in which figures such as Stanley Hauerwas, John Milbank, Lesslie Newbigin, "and (occasionally) Pope John Paul II" need to be taken into account. The author's revisions also incorporate suggestions made by reviewers to enhance the clarity of the original three chapters on the nature of contextual theology and the five models.

Author : Sigurd Bergmann,Mika Vähäkangas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000217421

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Contextual Theology by Sigurd Bergmann,Mika Vähäkangas Pdf

This book advances that history by exploring stories, images and discourses across a worldwide range of geographical, cultural and confessional contexts. Its twelve authors not only enrich our understanding of the significance of the contextual method, but also produce a new range of original ways of doing theology in contemporary situations. The authors discuss some prioritised thematic perspectives with an emphasis on liberating paths, and expand the ongoing discussion on the methodology of theology into new areas. Themes such as interreligious plurality, global capitalism, ecumenical liberation theology, eco-anxiety and the anthropocene, postcolonialism, gender, neo-pentecostalism, world theology, and reconciliation are examined in situated depth. Additionally, voices from Indigenous lands, Latin America, Asia, Africa, Australia, and Europe and North America enter into a dialogue on what it means to contextualise theology in an increasingly globalised and ever-changing world. Such a comprehensive discussion of new ways of thinking about and doing contextual theology will be of great use to scholars in Theology, Religious Studies, Cultural Studies, Political Science, Gender Studies, Environmental Humanities, and Global Studies.

Author : Paul Duane Matheny
Publisher : James Clarke & Company
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780227901045

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Contextual Theology by Paul Duane Matheny Pdf

For centuries, the global understanding of Church has been shaped by Western theological imperatives. Yet today, the decline of institutional religion in the West, and the extraordinary growth of the Church of the global South mean that a radical movement beyond such theologies is required. Paul Matheny argues that the Church would benefit by becoming more contextualized and less Western. Contextual Theology is an attempt to address that issue and to examine how a reassessment of the relationship of the Gospel to cultural context can advance this critical and necessary development. Through an accessible and critical approach, Matheny considers the historical background to contextual theology. In the same way, he aims to show how to use contextual methodsto think theologically and act missiologically in different cultural contexts.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781134115686

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Doing Contextual Theology by Anonim Pdf

Author : Victor I. Ezigbo
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725259287

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The Art of Contextual Theology by Victor I. Ezigbo Pdf

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).

Author : Carlton Turner
Publisher : SCM Press
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780334063391

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Caribbean Contextual Theology by Carlton Turner Pdf

Caribbean Contextual Theology introduces readers to the robust theological conversations taking place in the Caribbean region since the early 1970s, and the region’s key theologians and texts. Attempting to bring a contextual theological gaze to what is a fascinating and often understated context, it offers readers an introduction to the unique and important contribution that a Caribbean theological lens can bring to the broader theological landscape.

Author : Stipe Odak,Zoran Grozdanov
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000624045

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Balkan Contextual Theology by Stipe Odak,Zoran Grozdanov Pdf

This book opens a new research field in Balkan contextual theology. By embracing culturally rich traditions of the Western Balkans as its starting point, it explores their existential and theological bearings. Placed at the crossroads of civilisations and religions, this region has witnessed some of the worst atrocities of the 20th century. At the same time, it has produced unique textures of inter-cultural life. The volume addresses some of the most poignant phenomena endemic to the region, such as sevdalinka music, intimate forms of neighborhood, archetypes of ‘sacred warriors,’ the experience of democratic jet lag, collective melancholy, and intergenerational trauma. As the first book of this nature, it aims to encourage further development of contextual theological thinking in the region and promote its international reception.

Author : Stephen B Bevans,Katalina Tahaafe-Williams
Publisher : James Clarke & Company
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780227900956

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Contextual Theology for the Twenty-First Century by Stephen B Bevans,Katalina Tahaafe-Williams Pdf

In this compact collection of essays on contextual theology, the reader is offered fresh voices from the United States, Latin America and Oceania. The inclusion of diverse cultural voices is one of the book's strengths: these voices emphasize the significance of contextual theology for our twenty-first century. The proposal of the book is to address new ways of doing theology, opening up new and fresh topics for our theological agenda.

Author : Sharon E. Heaney
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008-07-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781606080160

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Contextual Theology for Latin America by Sharon E. Heaney Pdf

In the context of Latin America, the theology of liberation is both dominant and world renowned. However, this context and the pursuit of theological relevance belong also to other voices. Orlando E. Costas, Samuel Escobar, J. Andrew Kirk, Emilio A. Nunez and C. Rene Padilla are thinkers who have sought to bring an evangelical understanding of liberation to the people of Latin America. Despite their influence on national and international theology and despite their transformative contribution to the praxis of churches ministering in contexts of poverty, their thought has not been systematized to dates. This work deals with this lacuna presenting the vitality of Latin American evangelical theology which seeks to be biblical, relevant and missiologically effective, thus offering a liberation which is holistic and grounded in the kingdom of God.

Author : Irvin, Dale T.,Phan, Peter C.
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608337651

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Christian Mission, Contextual Theology, Prophetic Dialogue by Irvin, Dale T.,Phan, Peter C. Pdf

"While the intent of the editors is to honor Steve Bevans, SVD, a towering figure in the field of missiology and a longtime author of Orbis books on missiology, this book will be designed less as a festschrift than as a textbook for classroom use. Designed around the three main foci of Bevans' theology (mission, contextual theologies, and dialogical theory), it will appeal to teachers of courses in Christian mission, theological method, contextual theologies, and contemporary Third World theologies. The contributors are a who's who of contemporary mission studies in a global context, including representatives from various Christian traditions and from throughout the global church"--

Author : Victor I. Ezigbo
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725259300

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The Art of Contextual Theology by Victor I. Ezigbo Pdf

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).

Author : Sigurd Bergmann,Mika Vähäkangas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000217261

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Contextual Theology by Sigurd Bergmann,Mika Vähäkangas Pdf

This book advances that history by exploring stories, images and discourses across a worldwide range of geographical, cultural and confessional contexts. Its twelve authors not only enrich our understanding of the significance of the contextual method, but also produce a new range of original ways of doing theology in contemporary situations. The authors discuss some prioritised thematic perspectives with an emphasis on liberating paths, and expand the ongoing discussion on the methodology of theology into new areas. Themes such as interreligious plurality, global capitalism, ecumenical liberation theology, eco-anxiety and the anthropocene, postcolonialism, gender, neo-pentecostalism, world theology, and reconciliation are examined in situated depth. Additionally, voices from Indigenous lands, Latin America, Asia, Africa, Australia, and Europe and North America enter into a dialogue on what it means to contextualise theology in an increasingly globalised and ever-changing world. Such a comprehensive discussion of new ways of thinking about and doing contextual theology will be of great use to scholars in Theology, Religious Studies, Cultural Studies, Political Science, Gender Studies, Environmental Humanities, and Global Studies.