The Art of Contextual Theology: Doing Theology in the Era of World Christianity

Christianity has an inherent capability to assume as its novel mode of expression the local idioms customs and thought forms of a new cultural frontier that it encounters. As a result Christianity has become multicultural and multilingual. What is the role of theology in the imagination and articulation of Christianitys inherent multiculturalism and multi-vernacularity? Victor Ezigbo examines this question by exploring the nature and practice of contextual theology. To accomplish this task this book engages the main genres of contextual theology explores echoes of contextual theological thinking in some of Jesuss sayings and discusses insights into contextual theology that can be discerned in the discourses on theology and caste relations (Dalit theology) theology and primal cultures (African theology) and theology and poverty (Latin American liberation theology).