Postcolonial Public Theology

Paul S. Chung is visiting professor at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. He is the author of Church and Ethical Responsibility in the Midst of World Economy (James Clarke, 2014), as well as The Hermeneutical Self and an Ethical Difference (James Clarke, 2012).

• Foreword by Lois MalcolmAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroductionPart I: Confession, Contextual Interpretation, and Public Issues1 Martin Luther: Contextualization and Public Witness2 Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Postcolonial Reading and Contextualization3 Karl Barth: Analogical Hermeneutics, Divine Action, and Public WitnessPart II: Public Theology and Scientific Rationality4 Postcolonial Imagination, Postmodernity, and Recognition of the Other5 Faith, Scientific Rationality, and Evolution6 Ted Peters: Prolepsis, Divine Action, and GracePart III: Public Theology, Prophetic Dialogue, and Justice7 Ernst Troeltsch: Public Theology, Historical-Critical Inquiry, and Hermeneutical Reorientation8 Public Religious Theology: Christians and Buddhists9 Public Theology and World Economy: Prophetic Diakonia and Economic JusticeAfterword: Public Theology, Ecology, and ConfucianismBibliographyIndex

It's time for a book on postcolonial public theology by an author who knows two cultures: both the coloniser and the colonised. The Christian gospel is universal in the abstract, yet contextual in the concrete; and Chung vividly and thoughtfully concretises our theological agenda.