Doing Theology in Plural Contexts

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Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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Catholic education is in crisis. In many contexts, it is simply no longer possible to provide the same education in faith as envisaged in the past. Faced with the widespread and radical forgetting of Christian tradition, this work models a fresh theological practice for teachers: recontextualisation. This is process opens up the meaning of texts by engaging it within a new context, as in line with Pope Francis’ repeated calls for a dialogical theology.Horner and Brown bring this practice, most familiarly used in literary studies, sharply into the study of Christian theology. In doing so, they highlight how recontextualisation enabled beliefs, symbols and practices to speak anew to successive generations.Engaging with seven challenging biblical accounts, the book shows how these texts can open onto significant issues in contemporary culture and the Church. It begins with an analysis of recontextualisation and the conceptual issues it provokes for understanding revelation and tradition. The authors then set out a process for undertaking theological recontextualisation: listening to and praying with a biblical text; engaging in critical dialogue; asking how the text is speaking to individuals and communities today and, finally, recording the recontextualisation and evaluating the process and results.Engaging with seven challenging biblical accounts, the book shows how these texts can open onto significant issues in contemporary culture and the Church. It begins with an analysis of recontextualisation and the conceptual issues it provokes for understanding revelation and tradition. The authors then set out a process for undertaking theological recontextualisation: listening to and praying with a biblical text; engaging in critical dialogue; asking how the text is speaking to individuals and communities today and, finally, recording the recontextualisation and evaluating the process and results.This is an essential read for leaders and teachers in Catholic education schools and systems.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-09-17
Mått156 x 234 x 25 mm
Vikt454 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor224
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9780567727183

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AcknowledgementsPreface: Who Needs to Read this Book?1. Introduction2. Jesus and the Woman Caught in Adultery—The Experience of Shame3. Jesus and the Woman with the Haemorrhage—The Experience of Abjection4. Jesus Stills a Storm—The Experience of Hell5. Jesus and the Death of Lazarus—The Experiences of Grief and Compassion6. Jesus Turns the Tables—The Experience of Anger7. Jesus on the Road to Emmaus—The Experience of God with U8. The Spirit of God Pours Out into the World—The Experience of DifferenceConclusionSelect BiliographyAppendix 1: Four Steps to Recontextualisation

This is a fascinating and highly readable book. The theological background, namely that Christian tradition develops through recontextualisation and that we are therefore also called upon today to recontextualise that tradition ourselves, is introduced by the authors in a very understandable way. The choice of biblical texts in combination with the thematic organisation of the chapters is highly original and challenges us to reflect on bodiliness and shame, anger at injustice, mental well-being, sexual and power abuse and disaffiliation from the church.