Contextual Theology for the Twenty-first Century

by Bevans, Stephen B.; Tahaafe-williams, Katalina

• ISBN13: 9781608999606
• ISBN10: 1608999602
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-10-01
• Publisher: Pickwick Pubns

Summary

Scholars from the United States, Latin America, and Oceania reflect in this volume on the importance of contextual theology for our twenty-first century. Contextual theology offers fresh voices from every culture, and not just from the West. It calls for new ways of doing theology that embrace cultural values, but at the same time challenges them to the core. And it opens up new and fresh topics out of which and about which people can theologize. If the church is to be faithful to its mission, it needs to provide a feast at which all can be nourished. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Stephen Bevans is Louis J. Luzbetak, SVD, Professor of Mission and Culture at Catholic Theological Union, Chicago, USA. He is the author of Models of Contextual Theology (2002) and An Introduction to Theology in Global Perspective (2009). Katauna Tahaafe-Williams is the Director of Communitas, a program of contextual and public theology at United Theological College, Paramatta, NSW, Australia. She is a coauthor of The Multicultural Toolkit (2005) and Mission and Ministry in Multicultural Contexts (2009).

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Contextual Theology and the Twenty-First Century Church
What Has Contextual Theology to Offer the Church of the Twenty-First Century?	p. 3
The Centrality of Contextual Theology for Christian Existence Today	p. 18
The Cons of Contextuality... Kontextuality / Jione Havea	p. 38
Theology in Particular Contexts
The Necessity of a Second Peoples' Theology in Australia	p. 55
Context, Controversy, and Contradiction in Contemporary Theological Education: Who Bene "Fits" and Who Just Simply Doesn't Fit?	p. 69
A Future for Latin American Liberation Theology?	p. 87
Contextual Theology and the Mission of the Church
A Theology of Mission for the Church of the Twenty-First Century: Mission as Prophetic Dialogue	p. 99
Mission as an Invitation to the Feast of Life: Revisioning the Ecumenical Understanding and Practice of Mission in the Twenty-First Century	p. 109
Concluding Reflections	p. 126
Bibliography	p. 129
Notes on the Contributors	p. 137
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