Marion Grau is Professor of Systematic Theology, Ecumenism and Missiology at MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society, Norway.Jason Wyman is Adjunct Professor at Manhattan College, USA.

• Introduction, Marion Grau (MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society, Norway) and Jason Wyman (Manhattan College, USA)Part I: Reflecting on the History, Genre and Theory 1. Constructive Theology: History, Movement, Method, Jason Wyman (Manhattan College, USA)2. Constructive Theology as Theopoetics: Theological Construction as Divine-Human Creativity, John Thatamanil (Union Theological Seminary, USA)3. Mapping Methods in Constructive Theology, Marion Grau (MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society, Norway)Part II: Body, Text, Interdisciplinarity, and Practice4. Embodied Knowing: Body, Epistemology, Context, and Hermeneutics, Heike Peckruhn (Daemen College, USA)5. Constructive Biblical Hermeneutics: History and its Afterlife, Shelly Rambo (Boston University School of Theology, USA)6. Snakes in the Basket: The Blessed Risks of Constructive Comparative Theology, Holly Hillgardner (Independent Scholar, USA)7. Constructive Black Theology in Britain: Participative-Methodological Praxis, Anthony Reddie (University of South Africa, South Africa)Part III: Postcolonial Reconstructions 8. Starting with the Land Under Our Feet: Settler Colonialism as a source for Political Theology in America, Laurie Cassidy (Creighton University, USA)9. Ransomed by Money? Towards an African Constructive Theology, Lawrence Nwankwo (Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Nigeria)10. Cross and Resurrection as Post/colonial Trauma: Rewriting History, Reimagining Soteriology, Judith Gruber (Catholic University Leuven, Belgium)Index

This volume offers an accurate picture of the current state of constructive theology, including its strengths and weaknesses. The contributions are all thought-provoking and ably refer to relevant literatures ... We can be grateful to the editors and authors for helping us to answer the question posed in the title, while pressing toward renewed modes of theological construction that respond to our moment.