Contextual Theology

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.

Sigurd Bergmann is Emeritus Professor of Religious Studies at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Visiting Researcher at the Faculty of Theology, Uppsala University, and Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center at Munich University. His research covers religion and the environment, and religion, arts and architecture, and among his multiple books and articles are Weather, Religion and Climate Change (2020), Religion, Space and the Environment (2014), In the Beginning Is the Icon (2009), and God in Context (2003). Mika Vähäkangas is Professor of Mission Studies and Ecumenics at Lund University, Sweden. His research covers Christianity in Africa, intercultural and interreligious relations in World Christianity, and bridging empirical studies with systematic theology. He is the author of multiple publications in Theology and Religious Studies including Context, Plurality, and Truth (2020), and Between Ghambageu and Jesus (2008).

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