Gruber / Heimbrock / Wyller Intercultural Theology

Exploring World Christianity after the Cultural Turn
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-647-60459-6
Verlag: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 25, 195 Seiten

Reihe: Research in Contemporary Religion (RCR)

Recent years have seen a paradigm shift in Christian self-understanding. In place of the eurocentric model of ‘Christendom’, a new understanding is emerging of Christianity as a world movement with considerable cultural variety. Concomitant with this changing self-perception, a new theological discipline begins to take shape which analyzes the inter- and transcultural character and performance of global Christianity: Intercultural Theology.Judith Gruber discusses this nascent theological approach in two parts. She first gives a critical analysis of its historical development – in the first part of the book, two theological sub-disciplines of particular relevance are analysed: (1) missiology and its reflection on the encounter of Western Christianity with other cultures in the context of colonialism; (2) contextual theologies which focus on the particularity and dignity of the diverse cultural contexts of theological practice, but fail to sufficiently integrate the universal dimension of Christianity into their theological reflections.Secondly, this study offers a constructive theological approach to intercultural theology. It does that by bringing systematic theology into conversation with cultural studies. This interdisciplinary approach adds significant complexity to existing reflections on Intercultural Theology: Re-reading the theological history of Christianity within the critical framework of cultural theories exposes a host of disparate and conflictive Christianities underneath its dominant master narrative, and, moreover, it no longer allows a recourse to essentialist concepts of Christian identity, with which previous approaches to Intercultural Theology have mitigated this unsettling cultural plurality of Christianity: After the ‘Cultural Turn’, which has made a metaphysical epistemology untenable, new ways for thinking the unity and universality of Christianity have to be paved. The book draws on Paul Ricoeur’s and Michel Foucault’s concept of the event and on Michel deCerteau’s proposal of a ‘Weak Christianity’ in order to develop such a post-metaphysical framework, which allows to conceive of the unity and universality of Christianity without concealing its cultural plurality and contingency.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gruber, Judith

Heimbrock, Hans-Günter

Wyller, Trygve

Knauss, Stefanie

Sander, Hans-Joachim

Pezzoli-Olgiati, Daria

Kreinath, Jens

Weitere Mitwirkende

Heimbrock, Hans-Günter

Wyller, Trygve

Knauss, Stefanie

Sander, Hans-Joachim

Pezzoli-Olgiati, Daria

Kreinath, Jens

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Title Page;4
2;Copyright;5
3;Table of Contents;6
4;Body;8
5;Acknowledgements;8
6;1. Introduction;10
7;2. Intercultural Theology in Historical Perspective;15
7.1;2.1 Missiology;15
7.2;2.2 Contextual Theologies;26
7.3;2.3 Intercultural Theology;37
7.3.1;2.3.1 The Adverbial Syntax of Intercultural Theology;40
7.3.2;2.3.2 The Other as Hermeneutical Factor: The Approach of Difference Hermeneutics in Intercultural Theology;41
7.3.3;2.3.3 Ecclesiological Location;42
7.3.4;2.3.4 The Threefold Task of Intercultural Theology: Cultural Analysis, Intercultural Hermeneutics, Theological Criteriology;43
7.3.5;2.3.5 Criteriological Considerations;45
7.3.6;2.3.6 The Dynamics of Cultural Studies;47
7.3.7;2.3.7 The Basic Metaphor: Interculturation;48
8;3. Interculturality as a Theological Resource;50
8.1;3.1 Christian Identity: After the Cultural Turn;50
8.1.1;3.1.1 Turning Cultural;50
8.1.2;3.1.2 Postcolonial Studies;58
8.1.2.1;3.1.2.1 What is Postcolonial Theory?;58
8.1.2.2;3.1.2.2 Identity Construction in the In-Between;62
8.1.3;3.1.3 The Cultural Turn in Cultural Anthropology;64
8.1.3.1;3.1.3.1 Culture as Text;64
8.1.3.2;3.1.3.2 Writing Culture;66
8.1.3.3;3.1.3.3 Culture as Translation;69
8.1.4;3.1.4 Inter/Culturality after the Cultural Turn;71
8.2;3.2 Intercultural Rereadings of Tradition: The Hybrid Identities of Christianity;73
8.2.1;3.2.1 Syncretism as a Descriptive Category;74
8.2.2;3.2.2 An Example: Christian Identity – Neither Jew nor Greek?;76
8.3;3.3 Christian Identity: A Radical Hermeneutics;81
8.3.1;3.3.1 Theology: Testimony to a Particular Event;81
8.3.1.1;3.3.1.1 Paul Ricoeur: The Interpretation of the Absolute in the Event;83
8.3.1.2;3.3.1.2 Michel Foucault: The Radical Interpretativity of Eventualization;87
8.3.2;3.3.2 Testimony to a particular Event – Theological Ramifications;89
8.3.3;3.3.3 Michel de Certeau: Speaking of God in the Mode of Contingency;98
8.3.3.1;3.3.3.1 A Theological Crisis of Representation;98
8.3.3.2;3.3.3.2 The Christian Condition – Homelessness and Speechlessness;103
8.3.3.3;3.3.3.3 Theology: A Movement of Perpetual Departure;109
8.3.3.4;3.3.3.4 The Church: A Sacrament of Effacement;114
9;4. Theology after the Cultural Turn: Intercultural Theology;117
9.1;4.1 Theology in the Mode of Silencing Interculturality;119
9.2;4.2 Theology in the Mode of Unsilencing Interculturality;123
9.2.1;4.2.1 The Normativity of Contingency;124
9.2.2;4.2.2 Interculturality as a Locus of Theology;125
9.3;4.3 Intercultural Theology as Radically Hermeneutical Theology;128
10;5. The Canon as an Act of Intercultural Theology;134
10.1;5.1 A Theology of the Canon: Icon for Stability and Sacrament of God's Abundant Presence;134
10.2;5.2 The Canon after the Cultural Turn: Icon for De/stabilization;141
10.3;5.3 A Theology of Canon after the Cultural Turn: Sacrament of Loss;151
10.4;5.4 Conclusions;163
11;Bibliography;166
12;Index of Names and Subjects;194

Über Autor(innen)

Sander, Hans-Joachim
Dr. Hans-Joachim Sander ist Professor für Dogmatik an der Universität Salzburg.

Wyller, Trygve
Dr. theol. Trygve Wyller ist Professor für Praktische Theologie/Religionspädagogik an der Universität Oslo.

Pezzoli-Olgiati, Daria
Prof. Dr. Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati leitet das Zentrum für Religion, Wirtschaft und Politik (ZRWP) der Universitäten Basel, Lausanne, Luzern und Zürich.

Knauss, Stefanie
Dr. Stefanie Knauss ist zur Zeit Assistant Professor für Theologie an der Villanova University (USA).

Heimbrock, Hans-Günter
Dr. päd. Hans-Günter Heimbrock ist Professor für Praktische Theologie am Fachbereich Evangelische Theologie der J. W. Goethe Universität Frankfurt a. M.

Gruber, Judith
Dr. Judith Gruber ist Dozentin für Systematische Theologie an der Katholischen Universität Leuven, Belgien.