Ian Nell

Postcolonial Homiletics?

Preaching & Worship

“Wessel Wessels is a young and promising practical theologian born and bred in the heart of postcolonial South Africa. For him, homiletics is the ongoing endeavor to struggle with contemporary challenges preachers are facing in our African context. In his text he starts by locating himself in culture and wrestles with Black Theology of Liberation. He enriches our postcolonial understanding of homiletics through reimagining, reframing, and reconfiguring preaching in exploring consciousness and the preacher’s identity.”

Postfoundationalist Reflections in Practical Theology

Theology

“In a fast-changing world the description of the field of practical theology as continuously 'under construction' rings true to many scholars in the field. Macallan finds in a postfoundationalist approach to the field of practical theology the vocabulary to take the context very seriously. In grappling with the epistemology of the field he develops a grammar for practical theology in conversation with many voices. In engaging with these voices he shows us how to participate in a constructive way in our postmodern era towards the praxis of a living faith.”