Thomas Grenham

The Unknown God

Religious and Theological Interculturation

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the idea of religious and theological interculturation from a Christian perspective as an approach to evangelisation. It explores aspects of culture and pluralism as these have been interpreted in post-Vatican II approaches to mission and evaluates interculturation from a number of perspectives, including language, symbol and metaphor. It draws insight from two New Testament encounters of Jesus with women, in Samaria (John) and in Tyre (Matthew and Mark), and goes on to explore some historical sources of interculturation in the missionary endeavours of the Jesuit Matteo Ricci. A particular case study is made of the contemporary experience of an African people (the Turkana of Kenya).

Produktdetails

• Religions and Discourse 25
• Verlag: Peter Lang
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 10261
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 17mm x 150mm x 220mm
• Gewicht: 470g
• ISBN-13: 9783039102617
• ISBN-10: 3039102613
• Artikelnr.: 24533050

Autorenporträt

The Author: Thomas Grenham received his interdisciplinary Ph.D. in religion and education from Boston College, Massachusetts in 2002 and a Masters from the same university in Pastoral Ministry (1997). He lectures in mission theology and pastoral ministry at the Milltown Institute of Theology and Philosophy in Dublin, Ireland and is a member of St. Patrick's Missionary Society. Drawing in his many missionary experiences on the African continent, Europe and North America, he has published in several theological and mission journals, including Pacifica: Australasian Theological Studies and Missiology: An International Review.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Christian Mission in History - Religious and Theological Interculturation - Biblical and Theological Supports for a Liberative Interculturation - Historical Seeds of Interculturation - The Cultural and Religious Context of the Turkana - The Pedagogical Methodology of Interculturation - Imagining a New Global Intercultural Religious Consciousness.

Rezensionen

"This is a book which all missiologists should read." (Larry Nemer, Pacifica)