Doing theology as if people mattered : encounters in contextual theology / edited by Deborah Ross and Eduardo C. Fernández with Stephen B. Bevans.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ross, Deborah, editor.

Fernández, Eduardo C., editor.

Bevans, Stephen B., 1944- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theology.

Theology--Methodology.

Christianity and culture.

Physical Description:

xxi, 291 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : The Crossroad Publishing Company, [2019]

Summary:

"This book presents contextual theology as expressed and lived at the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University in Berkeley, California, a member school of the Graduate Theological Union. All theology is contextual (Stephen Bevans) and the Jesuit School of Theology (JST) has operated out of this paradigm for many years. Implicit in the book is the faculty's conversion to doing contextual theology in the educational context of the classroom and beyond. This collection narrates the story of contextual theology at JST: how the School came to select this theological method and how it guides the vision and mission of the School; how contextual theology shapes pedagogy and work in the classroom; how contextual theology and education flourish in ministerial praxis in the local intercultural San Francisco Bay Area, and in international contexts, as the School engages in immersions, pilgrimage, and interreligious dialogue; how JST welcomes students from many continents, and prepares students to go back to those contexts; and how JST lives out the maxim of a 'faith that does justice'."--Back cover

Contents:

Foreword / Robert J. Schreiter, CPPS

Introduction / Deborah Ross and Eduardo C. Fernández, SJ

PART I: FOUNDATIONS. Reconciled diversity: theology and spirituality in the ecumenical journey / Sandra M. Schneiders, IHM

From first-century Mediterranea to twenty-first century North America: A long tradition of contextual distance education / Jean-François Racine

Why read the church fathers? Teaching Nicaea as contextual theology / Thomas Cattoi

The theopoetic constitution of the Church: Christian ecumenism as a theological context / Christopher M. Hadley, SJ

Sacramental and liturgical theology from the inside out: how diverse socio-cultural realities change the questions and shape the pedagogy of a shared tradition / Paul A. Janowiak, SJ

Evaluating the efffectiveness of culturally contextualized theology / Alison M. Benders.

PART II: INTO THE FIELD. Mapping the spiritual exercises along the Camino Ignaciano / Hung Trung Pham, SJ, and Kathryn R. Barush

Field education at a shared parish: navigating contextual and pastoral opportunities / Deborah Ross

Becoming a contextual theologian: doing ethics from below / William O'Neill, SJ

Meeting others on holy ground: the intercultural context of interreligious education / Anh Q. Tran, SJ

Women, wisdom, action: contextual theology in the key of memory and narrative / Julia D. E. Prinz, VDM]

Imprisoned theology / George T. Williams, SJ

From Berkeley to Jerusalem: An experiment in contextual education / Gina Hens-Piazza

Pope Francis as a contextual theologian / Kevin O'Brien, SJ

Afterword / Stephen B. Bevans, SVD.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

"A Herder and Herder book."

ISBN:

0824599950

9780824599959

0824599969

9780824599966

OCLC:

1089200391