Doing Theology as if People Mattered

Encounters in Contextual Theology
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-0-8245-9995-9
Verlag: The Crossroad Publishing Company

Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Doing Theology as if People Mattered narrates a reflexive account of the “doing” of contextual theology at the Jesuit School of Theology (JST) of Santa Clara University. The collection explores practicing contextual theology in the classroom and beyond, in service, international immersions, interreligious dialogue, and mission. The book presents the concept of contextual theology as expressed and lived at the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University in Berkeley, California, a member school of the Graduate Theological Union. All theology is contextual (Stephen Bevans) and the Jesuit School of Theology has operated out of this paradigm for many years. Implicit in the book is the faculty’s conversion to doing contextual theology in the educational context of the classroom and beyond. This collection narrates the story of contextual theology at JST: how the School came to select this theological method and how it guides the vision and mission of the School; how contextual theology shapes pedagogy and work in the classroom; how contextual theology and education flourish in ministerial praxis in the local intercultural San Francisco Bay Area, and in international contexts, as the School engages in immersions, pilgrimage, and interreligious dialogue; how JST welcomes students from many continents, and prepares students to go back to those contexts; and how JST lives out the maxim of a “faith that does justice”.

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Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Praktische Theologie Religionspädagogik, Christlicher Katechismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein

Über Autor(innen)

Other than teaching classes in missiology and Latino theology and ministry at the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University at Berkeley and the Graduate Theological Union, Professor Eduardo Fernández publishes, gives workshops and retreats, and assists at local parishes. He has also worked in university campus ministry. A native of El Paso, Texas, he earned a Masters in Latin American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin and a doctorate in missiology at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. His two latest books are Mexican American Catholics (Paulist Press, 2007), awarded a 2008 Catholic Press Association Book Award in the category of pastoral ministry, and Culture-Sensitive Ministry: Helpful Strategies for Pastoral Ministers (Paulist Press, 2010) with Kenneth McGuire, CSP and Anne Hansen.

Deborah Ross is Lecturer and Director of Ministerial Formation at the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University in Berkeley. She received her MTh in pastoral theology, and PhD in theology, from Heythrop College, University of London. Dr. Ross’ PhD research focused upon the RCIA faith-formation process. Her undergraduate studies were in theology and religious studies with English at St. Mary’s University, Twickenham, UK. She is co-author of Talking About God in Practice: Theological Action Research and Practical Theology (SCM Press, 2010) and authored the Introduction to Image and Pilgrimage in Christian Culture by Victor and Edith Turner (Columbia University Press, 2011).