Toward A Theology Of Inculturation

Author : Aylward Shorter
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781597525473

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Toward a Theology of Inculturation by Aylward Shorter Pdf

'Inculturation' is a word come only recently into theological language, having its origin and impetus in a revolution in the perception of Christian mission--even of Christian identity. 'Toward a Theology of Inculturation' is the first book to bring together the many strands of current and historical Catholic thought on what might be called a theology of a multicultural church. Inculturation, Shorter argues, is the recognition that faith must in effect become culture to be fully received and lived. In the course of a wide-ranging discussion, the author explores the intimate relationship between inculturation and theology, focusing in particular on scripture, the history of Òmissions (especially in Africa), and contemporary Catholic thought. Shorter concludes with an exploration of the future of the church--a multicultural church. 'Toward a Theology of Inculturation' offers a substantive explication of what inculturation is, what it is not, how and when it occurs, and what its limits are or should be.

Author : Catherine Cornille,Valeer Neckebrouck
Publisher : Peeters Publishers
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9068314297

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A Universal Faith? Peoples, Cultures, Religions, and the Christ by Catherine Cornille,Valeer Neckebrouck Pdf

This volume of essays is dedicated to Frank De Graeve, s.j., Professor Emeritus of Missiology and the Comparative Study of Religions at the K.U. Leuven. Throughout a long teaching career in the United States and Belgium, his two main concerns have been the inculturation of Christianity in the Various continents and particular contexts, and the theological reflection on religious pluralism. The contributions to this collection are therefore centered around these two topics. Valeer Neckebrouck and Catherine Cornille are Frank De Graeve's successors in the fields of Missiology and the Comparative Study of Religions, respectively. Valeer Neckebrouck is the author of "La Tierce Eglise devant le probleme de la culture" among numerous other works, and Catherine Cornille's "The Guru in Indian Catholicism" has already appeared in this series.

Author : Gerald A. Arbuckle
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780814657324

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Culture, Inculturation, and Theologians by Gerald A. Arbuckle Pdf

The split between the Gospel and culture is without doubt the drama of our time," wrote Paul VI in 1975. Since that time there has been an increasingly urgent awareness that inculturation is an indispensable task of the church. But inculturation, the dialogue between church and cultures, demands first of all that we who would enter into the dialogue understand what "culture" itself means and what dialogue entails. To that end, cultural anthropologist Father Gerald Arbuckle gives us this important volume. He traces the history of the development of the concept of culture, and the too-often negative, rarely positive effects of encounters between church and culture. He explores how Jesus Christ approached the cultures of his time, and outlines the current treatment of culture and inculturation in church documents and in Catholic theology. He shows that modest progress in understanding has recently staled, and there are even forces working to turn that progress into regress. He concludes with a description of inculturation as it needs to happen 'and a sharp critique of those who resist. With a sense of prophetic hope, Arbuckle seeks to help us bridge the lamentable split between Gospel and culture, the drama that continues to unfold in our time.

Author : G. Cruz
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1349486205

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Toward a Theology of Migration by G. Cruz Pdf

Offering a theology of migration, Cruz reflects on the Christian vision of 'one bread, one body, one people' in view of the gifts and challenges of contemporary migration to Christian spirituality, mission, and inculturation and the need for reform of migration policies based on the experience of refugees, migrant women, and others.

Author : Anscar J. Chupungco
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0814661203

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Liturgical Inculturation by Anscar J. Chupungco Pdf

Perhaps nothing is as important to the future of the Church as continuing to make the liturgy meaningful to those who celebrate it. Inculturation, the dynamic translation of the typical editions into the cultures of local Churches, is the key. Inculturation as a branch of liturgical study has a dauntingly wide scope. It covers the areas of history and theology, liturgical and cultural principles, process and methods, sacraments and sacramentals, Liturgy of the Hours, liturgical year, liturgical music, liturgical arts and furnishings, and such related topics as popular religiosity and catechesis. So where does the average pastor, liturgist, or student begin? With this volume the reader is introduced to the different technical terms expressing the relationship between liturgy and culture (indigenization, incarnation, contextualization, adaptation, acculturation ... ). The subsequent discussion on the question of sacramentals, popular religiosity, and liturgical catechesis explains how these disparate topics share the same basic concern of inculturation. Throughout the book the focus is on method. Method encompasses both how one may remain true to the liturgy while also considering what culture offers the liturgy or requires of it. The question of how creativity relates to inculturation is also answered. For the serious student of the liturgy, whether or not you serve a culturally diverse community, this work provides foundations, principles, and methods for creating a liturgy of the people and for the people.

Author : Phan, Peter C.
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608335152

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Asian Christianities by Phan, Peter C. Pdf

Author : Heejun Yang
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666791099

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Trinitarian Responses to Worldliness by Heejun Yang Pdf

Are you a seminarian/scholar who wants to go further from your school’s Barthian tradition? The purpose of this book is to connect cutting-edge post-Barthian trinitarian theological movements all around the world: postliberal theology (Yale school) in the US, radical orthodoxy (Cambridge school) in the UK, German radical hermeneutic theology (Zürich school in the German-speaking world), and the theology of inculturation (Korean Methodist school) in Asia. Although each theological movement had a tremendous impact on the entire area of theology, there has been no work done to connect those twenty-first-century theological trends. The strength of this book is that it connects different theological movements with the author’s own unique view as a Korean theologian. Comparing different Trinitarian theological movements, the author argues for the necessity of a God-focused theology to embrace different human understandings in a world where Christianity is not dominant. The book claims that Christians can pursue a genuine dialectics of differentiation and interdependence when they understand the global phenomenon of Christianity’s inculturation as the work of the Trinity who relates Godself to different worldly cultures.

Author : Cyril Orji
Publisher : James Clarke & Company
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780227906354

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Semiotic Approach to the Theology of Inculturation by Cyril Orji Pdf

A Semiotic Approach to the Theology of Inculturation argues that though it is a difficult and delicate task, inculturation is still a requisite demand of a World Church and that without it the Church is unrecognisable and unsustainable. The book also suggests that the past failures of inculturation experiments in Africa can be overcome only by critically applying the science of semiotics, which can serve as an antidote to the nature of human knowing and reductionism that characterised earlier attempts to make Christianity African to the African. Drawing from the semiotic works of C.S. Peirce, Clifford Geertz, and Bernard Lonergan, Cyril Orji shows why semiotics is best suited to an African theology of inculturation and offers ten pinpointed precepts, identified as 'Habits', which underline the attentiveness, reasonableness, and responsibility required in a semiotic approach to a theology of inculturation. The 'Habits' are also akin to the imperatives inherent in the notion of catholicity - that catholicity is not identified with uniformity but with reconciled diversity, and also that catholicity demands different forms in different places, times, and cultural settings.

Author : Lamin Sanneh,Michael McClymond
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 782 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781405153768

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The Wiley Blackwell Companion to World Christianity by Lamin Sanneh,Michael McClymond Pdf

The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to World Christianity presents a collection of essays that explore a range of topics relating to the rise, spread, and influence of Christianity throughout the world. Features contributions from renowned scholars of history and religion from around the world Addresses the origins and global expansion of Christianity over the course of two millennia Covers a wide range of themes relating to Christianity, including women, worship, sacraments, music, visual arts, architecture, and many more Explores the development of Christian traditions over the past two centuries across several continents and the rise in secularization

Author : KK Yeo
Publisher : James Clarke & Company
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2008-05-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780227903308

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Musing with Confucius and Paul by KK Yeo Pdf

A scholarly analysis of Chinese Christianity explaining how it is possible to embrace the Christian faith while maintaining the Chinese identity and culture. Being a Chinese Christian means to adopt a very distinctive and unique identity that feeds both traditions. In this book, Khiok-khng Yeo explores the Analects of Confucius and Paul's Letter to the Galatians, and shows how together they provide the resources for the construction of a Chinese Christian theology. The author explains the common elementsbetween St Paul and Confucius, and how both ideologies complement each other or extend the areas where the other is not so thorough. The Christ of God as found in Paul's letter to the Galatians brings Confucian ethics to its fulfilment, while Confucius' philosophy amplifies many aspects of Christianity that are underplayed in the western churches. Bringing the best of the Confucian tradition into the Christian story, Professor Yeo offers an approach to help revivify global Christianity.

Author : Mariasusai Dhavamony
Publisher : Gregorian & Biblical Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8876527389

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Christian Theology of Inculturation by Mariasusai Dhavamony Pdf

Inculturationis not just a means of evangelization but belongs to the heart of the church's evangelizing mission. it is not just a way of witnessing to Christ but of accomplishing and fulfilling his work of redemption. It is the continuation in time and space of the dialogue of salvation realized by God in Christ through the Holy Spirit. The incarnational economy of salvation means that the self-communication of God, definitively given to us in the incarnatio of his Son, is the paradigm of the saving presence and action of God in history. The inculturation of the Christian faith and life in the local Church is the historical actualization of Christ's salvation in the midst of every people. Evangelization will lose much of its power and efficacy, if it does not make use of people's language, their signs and symbols; i.e. if it does not reach and influence their way of life. After a brief introduction on the idea of culture, enculturation and acculturation in social anthropology, a theology of culture, symbol and language is treated in order to lead to the central subject-matter of the Christian theology of inculturation, which is articulated in themes such as revelation and culture, redemptive incarnation as an exemplary model of inculturation, Lay people and inculturation, missionary spirituality and inculturation. The final chapters deal with inculturation in the Indian Church, the meeting of the Gospel with Asian religions, cultures and aspirations for full humanity, and AsianChristian theology

Author : Peter Schineller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015032505359

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A Handbook on Inculturation by Peter Schineller Pdf

This handbook surveys the history of inculturation and describes its essential methods and attitudes. Discusses the impact of inculturation in four areas of theology--revelation, grace, Christology and exxlesiology, presenting Africa and liberation theology in Latin America as two case studies.

Author : Groody, Daniel G.
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608339495

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A Theology of Migration by Groody, Daniel G. Pdf

"A systematic look at migration that seeks to reimagine the operative political, social, and cultural narratives of immigration through a Eucharistic theology"--

Author : Diego Irarrazaval
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781556358319

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Inculturation by Diego Irarrazaval Pdf

This compelling account of how Andean Christians have inculturated the Gospel and the challenges that confront them provides a real-world view of the urgent process of inculturation. In the context of pluri-cultural development of the church, this process is one that affirms that both culture and history are transformed by the Spirit of God. Inculturation surveys Andean culture and religious traditions, drawing from day-to-day experience in the transformation of education and social action, personal and communal life, spirituality, and the whole of Christian mission in today's world. It also discusses current evangelization trends worldwide, examining negative as well as positive examples of inculturation, and offers guidelines for future efforts.

Author : Jean-Georges Gantenbein
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781793633828

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Can the West Be Converted? by Jean-Georges Gantenbein Pdf

Rather than reconsidering contemporary culture in light of secularization, much of the western church operates with a degree of nostalgia. She has yet to fully embrace prospective, innovative models for what form her task might take in some of Christianity’s historic heartlands. Amidst rapidly declining church membership, contextualizing the Gospel for the contemporary West is an urgent task for churches and Christians living in this context. This book seeks an interdisciplinary, international, and ecumenical response to this challenge, uniting historical, sociological, theological, and missiological perspectives. Benefiting from recent studies in sociology of religion, Dr. Gantenbein offers several detailed contextual case studies before establishing correlations between western cultural-religious characteristics and corresponding theological affirmations. This study includes several unexpected dimensions, including the development of a theological aesthetic in tension with the typically Word-alone tradition of Protestantism; a constructive reading of the book of Revelation as a source for contemporary aesthetic missiology; reflections on a soteriology for the postmodern era; and a proposal for an anonymous ecclesiology within a European context where churches are viewed with growing suspicion. With rare perspicacity, Gantenbein’s study creatively calls churches to apply renewed intellectual rigor in faithfulness to their common purpose.