Contextual Theology: Skills and Practices of Liberating Faith

ISBN-13: 9780367365301 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 242 str.

Sigurd Bergmann; Mika Vähäkangas

Opis

This book advances that history by exploring stories, images and discourses across a worldwide range of geographical, cultural and confessional contexts. Its twelve authors enrich our understanding of the significance of the contextual method and produce a new range of original ways of doing theology in contemporary situations.

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List of contributors; Foreword-Robert J. Schreiter; Acknowledgements; Doing Situated Theology,Introductory Remarks about the History, Method and Diversity of Contextual Theology-Sigurd Bergmann & Mika Vähäkangas; Can Contextual Theology Bridge the Divide?; South Africa’s Politics of Forgiveness as an Example of a Contextual Public Theology-Dion Forster; Contextual Theology on Trial; African Pentecostalism, Sacred Authority, and Sexual and Gender Based Violence-Chammah Kaunda; Gender, Ethnicity and Lived Religion: Challenges to Contextual and Liberation Theologies-Elina Vuola; Ecumenical Liberation Theology:How I Experienced its Arrival in Germany and Europe after 1968-Ulrich Duchrow; Economy, Greed and Liberation Theology:A Critique from a Border Location in India-Atola Longkumer;The DissemiNation of Vikings: Postcolonial Contexts and Economic Meltdown-Sigríður Guðmarsdóttir;Reclaiming Tradition as Critique of Oppression-Teresa Callewaert;Speaking from Experience: Comparing Mahdawi-Pentecostal Approaches to Equipment for Mission and its Theological Justification-David Emmanuel Singh; Theology in the Anthropocene – and Beyond?-Sigurd Bergmann; Theology of "Eco-Anxiety" as Liberating Contextual Theology-Panu Pihkala; Contextualization through the Arts-Volker Küster; World Christianity as Post-Colonializing of Theology-Mika Vähäkangas