The Art of Contextual Theology

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: Victor I. Ezigbo
Publisher: Cascade Books
Published: 05/28/2021
Pages: 246
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d
ISBN13: 9781725259287
ISBN10: 1725259281
BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Christian Theology | Liberation

About the Author
Victor Ezigbo is Professor of Theology and World Christianity at Bethel University, St. Paul, Minnesota. His other books are Re-imagining African Christologies and Introducing Christian Theologies (2 vols).