The Art of Contextual Theology
Doing Theology in the Era of World Christianity
- Theology
- Publisher: Cascade Books (Wipf and Stock)
- Published: 2021
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Publisher's Description
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).
Endorsements (3)
“Ezigbo’s fascinating book disrupts Western theology’s fondness for navel-gazing by turning our attention to the body of Christians scattered across the world. Working from embodied communities in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, this resourceful book reconfigures theological method, expands theological capital, and reimagines theology to matter both contextually and globally. I want this in the hands of theological teachers and students in the United States and Europe.”
“The study of theology is greatly enriched by this new work from Victor Ezigbo that asks what it means for community context to be a fundamental—and equally-weighted—constituent of theology alongside Scripture, reason, and tradition. From ancestor Christology to Dalit anthropology, Ezigbo’s case studies illuminate with breadth and precision how context so understood challenges all theologians, as it relocates the form and practice of Christian theology to local communities across the globe.”
“Victor Ezigbo makes a convincing case in this book for a paradigm shift from an explanatory approach to a constitutive model of contextual theology. I highly recommend this book as an indispensable text to theologians, church ministers, faith-based Christian NGOs, and theology students. All those who are looking for a methodological road map for doing contextual and practical theology or mission studies anywhere in the world today will find a good guide in this book, which promises to be the most important scholarly contribution to World Christianity so far from this great African mind.”
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