Caribbean Theology: Second Printing

ISBN-13: 9780820467092 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 234 str.

Erskine, Noel Leo

Opis

Five full years before the momentous meeting of EATWOT in Dar-es-Salaam in 1976, Caribbean thinkers had met in Trinidad to register the region's need of a contextual theology. Caribbean Theology scrutinizes the gradual but crucial development of theology within the context of the Caribbean since 1971. It examines the charge that the gradualness of the process is due to the insidiousness of missionary theology from which Caribbean theology seeks disengagement. The book further assesses the viability of this indigenization by drawing its many seminal and abridged offerings for interpretation and serious reflection into a systematic whole.

Recenzje

"Without being insular, 'Caribbean Theology' takes a serious look at the process of contextualization for the 'whole' Caribbean region. This work, without a doubt, is a valuable reader not only for students of theology in the Caribbean but for anyone interested in methodology in contextual theology, because this interpretation of contextualization emerges from Lewin Williams' clear insights into issues of a global nature." (Ashley Smith, United Theological College of the West Indies)
"Professor Lewin Williams has placed us in his debt in giving us this excellent treatment of 'Caribbean Theology'. Because there are some seven hundred Islands bathed by the Caribbean Sea representing many cultures and languages, few persons have undertaken this large task of relating theology to this region. The decade of the eighties is in some regard a lost decade as the church and its theologians in the Caribbean have been very quiet. But Dr. Williams has broken the silence and has sought to allow us to listen in on the conversation among these various cultures in the region as they relate God-talk to their own situation. Williams helps us make the connection between the divine and the worldly, faith and life, Jesus and the times..." (Noel Leo Erskine, Emory University)

O autorze

The Author: Dr. Lewin Williams is a native of the Caribbean island of Jamaica. He was educated at the United Theological College of the West Indies, at Howard University, Washington D.C., and he holds a Ph.D. from Union Theological Seminary in New York. Dr. Williams is currently the Deputy President of the United Theological College of the West Indies, where he lectures in Contemporary Trends in Theology.