Robinson / Inderst What Does Theology Do, Actually?

Vol. 1: Observing Theology and the Transcultural
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ISBN: 978-3-374-07030-5
Verlag: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt
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E-Book, Englisch, 328 Seiten

»What Does Theology Do, Actually? Observing Theology and the Transcultural« is to be the first in a series of 5 books, each presented under the same question – »What Does Theology Do, Actually?«, with vols. 2–5 focusing on one of the theological subdisciplines. This first volume proceeds from the observation of a need for a highly inflected »trans-cultural«, and not simply »inter-cultural«, set of perspectives in theological work and training.
The revolution brought about across the humanities disciplines through globalization and the recognition of »multiple modernities« has introduced a diversity of overlapping cultural content and multiple cultural and religious belongings not only into academic work in the humanities and social sciences, but into the Christian churches as well.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Robinson, Matthew Ryan

Inderst, Inja

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Acknowledgements ................................................................................... 13

Foreword .................................................................................................... 15
Grace Davie (Exeter, UK)

Introduction .............................................................................................. 19
“What Does Theology Do?” as a Transcultural Research Perspective: A “Model of” a “Model for” Theological Research
Matthew Ryan Robinson (Bonn, Germany)

Part 1 What Difference does a Difference Make?

What does theology do, actually? ......................................................... 45
(Un)Doing Filipino Theologies
Hadje Cresencio Sadje (Leuven, Belgium; Philippines)

Transformations of African Christianity ........................................... 59
From the First- to the Second-Generation of African Churches in Germany
Elorm Nick Ahialey-Mawusi (Hamburg, Germany; Togo)

Going Westward to Do Theology ............................................................ 69
The “Crisis of Care” and Theological Practice
Sara Abdella-Kedir (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)

Umbrella Movement 2014 ......................................................................... 77
Theology in the Street Searching for Identity
Chan Che-wai (Hong Kong, China)

Part 2 Which Cultures? Whose Contextuality? Determining Theological Locations

Theology, in-between Texts ..................................................................... 87
An Essay on Context and Intertextuality
Martín Grassi (Buenos Ares, Argentina)

On Theological Reflexivity .................................................................... 101
and the Ambiguities of Transcultural Communication
Evan Kuehn (Chicago, USA)

What Systematic Theology Does ........................................................... 117
Reflecting on the Christian Faith in its Polyvalent Situatedness
Cornelia Richter (Bonn, Germany)

Part 3 Theology as a Social Artifact

Viewing and Dancing Nature ................................................................. 135
Environmental Conceptions and the Politics of Belonging of the danzantes prehispánicos
Eva Youkhana (Bonn, Germany)

Claiming the Nation ............................................................................... 149
Theological Nationalism in the Philippines
Jayeel Cornelio (Manila, Philippines)

Religious Communications in Transcultural Contexts .......................... 165
Theological Developments in Changing Societies
Eberhard Hauschildt (Bonn, Germany)

Part 4 How Public is Theology? How is Theology Public?

What Does Theological Ethics Do? ...................................................... 175
Toward an Account of Theological Ethics as Tropology
Esther D. Reed (Exeter, UK)

On Doing Public Theology ..................................................................... 193
Reflections Towards a More Public Praxis
Florian Höhne (Berlin, Germany)

Public Theology in Ethiopia .................................................................. 209
State, Church, and Neighbour-Love
Andrew DeCort (Chicago, USA; Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)

In Need of Differentiation .................................................................... 225
The “Public Sphere” as a Challenge for Theology
Constantin Plaul (Halle, Germany)

Part 5 What will Theology Do? From the Present to Possible Futures

What Does Biblical “Exegethics” Do? .................................................. 241
Method, Trajectories, and Reflections from an African Context
Dogara Ishaya Manomi (Jos, Nigeria)

As Many Theories as Phenomena .......................................................... 257
Practical Theology as Theory of Theology
Inja Inderst (Bonn, Germany)

Church History ....................................................................................... 271
Past, Present, and Context
Gianna Zipp (Mainz, Germany)

Contemplating Christ and/in His People ............................................ 283
The Practice of a Socially Transformative-Oriented Christology in Africa
Chukwuemeka Anthony Atansi (Leuven, Belgium / Nigeria)

Afterword ................................................................................................ 307
Wanderings in Pedagogy and “Model-of” Transcultural Theological Research
Matthew Ryan Robinson (Bonn, Germany)

Contributors ........................................................................................... 323

Über Autor(innen)

Robinson, Matthew Ryan
Dr. Matthew Ryan Robinson, Ph.D. is Research Associate in the Protestant Theological Faculty at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University of Bonn. His is the author of Redeeming Relationship, Relationships that Redeem: Free Sociability and the Completion of Humanity in the Thought of Friedrich Schleiermacher (Mohr Siebeck 2018) and, with Evan F. Kuehn, Theology Compromised: Schleiermacher, Troeltsch, and the Possibility of a Sociological Theology (Lexington Books / Fortress Academic 2019).

Inderst, Inja
Inja Inderst is Research Associate in the Protestant Theological Faculty at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University of Bonn.