Christ and Context : The Confrontation Between Gospel and Culture.

Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Preface -- Contents -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Future of Theology in a Complex World -- On Being Theologically Responsible -- The Problem of Complexity and Culture -- Context, Culture and God's Presence -- Cultures and the Agenda for Theology -- Precedents for Such Concerns -- The Failings of Theology -- Moving Beyond Our Bad Habits -- Approaching the Task of Theology -- Theology as Poesis -- The New Form of Wisdom -- The Needs of a Creative Poesis -- 3. The Truth Looks Different from Here -- Responses by Jurgen Moltmann and Sue Patterson -- Reply by Janet Martin Soskice -- 4. Joy in the Midst of Suffering -- Introduction -- 1. Doing Theology -- 2. Poverty -- 3. Job -- Conclusion -- Responses by John de Gruchy and Stephen May -- Reply by Gustavo Gutierrez -- 5. Christ in Feminist Context -- I. Can a Male Saviour Save Women? -- II. Relationship and its Consequences -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- III. Traces of a Feminist Christology -- Responses by Janet Martin Soskice -- Response by Veronica Brady -- 6. Christian Witness and the Transformation of Culture Society in Transition -- Discerning the Kairos in a Period of Political Transition -- The Church in South Africa as the Mirror Image of Cultural Division and Conflict -- Christian Witness to the Promise and Hope of the Transformation of Culture -- The Role of the Church as Bearer of Christian Witness in this Period of Transition -- A Witness to Humanizing Values in the Building of a New Nation -- Identification with the Victims of Oppression and Representative of the Guilty -- Responses by Daniel Hardy and Douglas Campbell -- Reply by John de Gruchy -- 7. Christ in Cosmic Context -- 1. Christ After Chernobyl -- 2. An Outline for a Differentiated Cosmic Christology -- 3. Christ - Evolution's Driving Force or its Victim?.

Responses by Alan Torrance and Gustavo Gutierrez -- Reply by Jurgen Moltmann -- 8. The 'One World': A Challenge to Western Christianity -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- Responses by Neil Darragh -- 1. The Challenge -- 2. My Task in Response -- 3. The experience of being Pakeha -- 4. The Other as Partner -- Response by Elisabeth Moltmann-Wendel -- 9. The Spirit of God in Creation and Reconciliation -- Introduction: Contextuality and the Trinitarian God -- On Poesis, Theory and Truth-Telling -- The Modes and Operation of Contextuality -- The Dynamics of Contextuality -- A long rumour of wisdom... fierce vigil of contingency, love's congruence...' -- The Contextual Loss of God -- Reconciliation in Contextuality -- Conclusion -- Notes on contributors -- Index, author -- Index, subject -- List of sponsors.

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