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What is Constructive Theology?
Histories, Methodologies, and Perspectives
What is Constructive Theology?
Histories, Methodologies, and Perspectives
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This essential introduction to contemporary constructive theology charts the most important disciplinary trends of the moment. It gives a historical overview of the field and discusses key hermeneutical and methodological concerns. The contributors apply a constructive perspective to a wide range of approaches, ranging from biblical hermeneutics and postcolonial studies to comparative, political, and black theology.
What is Constructive Theology? shows how diverse and interdisciplinary constructive theology can be by exploring key themes in the field. The contributors explore the porous boundaries between Christianity and other religions, reflect on contextual, liberation and constructive theologies from Africa and from Black British perspectives, explore the connection between embodiment, epistemology and hermeneutics, and take a constructive approach to the dangerous memories and theologies of colonial histories in Belgium and Native Americans in the United States. This sampler of the field will help you rethink theologies and find constructive alternatives.
Table of Contents
Part I: Reflecting on the History, Genre and Theory
1. Constructive Theology: History, Movement, Method, Jason Wyman (Manhattan College, USA)
2. Constructive Theology as Theopoetics: Theological Construction as Divine-Human Creativity, John Thatamanil (Union Theological Seminary, USA)
3. Mapping Methods in Constructive Theology, Marion Grau (MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society, Norway)
Part II: Body, Text, Interdisciplinarity, and Practice
4. Embodied Knowing: Body, Epistemology, Context, and Hermeneutics, Heike Peckruhn (Daemen College, USA)
5. Constructive Biblical Hermeneutics: History and its Afterlife, Shelly Rambo (Boston University School of Theology, USA)
6. Snakes in the Basket: The Blessed Risks of Constructive Comparative Theology, Holly Hillgardner (Independent Scholar, USA)
7. Constructive Black Theology in Britain: Participative-Methodological Praxis, Anthony Reddie (University of South Africa, South Africa)
Part III: Postcolonial Reconstructions
8. Starting with the Land Under Our Feet: Settler Colonialism as a source for Political Theology in America, Laurie Cassidy (Creighton University, USA)
9. Ransomed by Money? Towards an African Constructive Theology, Lawrence Nwankwo (Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Nigeria)
10. Cross and Resurrection as Post/colonial Trauma: Rewriting History, Reimagining Soteriology, Judith Gruber (Catholic University Leuven, Belgium)
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Product details
| Published | 29 Oct 2020 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 248 |
| ISBN | 9780567695185 |
| Imprint | T&T Clark |
| Series | Rethinking Theologies: Constructing Alternatives in History and Doctrine |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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