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Book SynopsisChristian Theology after Christendom: Engaging the Thought of Douglas John Hall brings together contemporary thinkers to engage and build upon Douglas John Hall’s work—and to take up his challenge to reclaim a contextual and de-colonizing theology of the cross as a means to speak of the realities of life and faith today. With a focus on contemporary issues, this collection of essays critically analyzes and deconstructs the centuries-old colonial triumphalism of Christian theology and the church in the West. This edited collection seeks to frame present day crises in ways that honor a deeply rooted theologia crucis that does not colonize the “other.” It explores constructive decolonizing possibilities for Christian theology at the end of Christendom.
Table of ContentsForeword
Walter Brueggemann
Introduction and Acknowledgments
Patricia G. Kirkpatrick and Pamela R. McCarroll
- The Art of Theology: Five Approaches to Curating the Work and Thought of Douglas John Hall
David Lott
- Illusion and Hope
Michael Bourgeois
- Faith and Fragilization: Douglas John Hall and Charles Taylor in Dialogue
Andrew Root
- Contextual Theology in Canada: Between Covenant and Treaty
Allen G. Jorgenson
- Indian Residential Schools and the Churches: An Exercise in the Theology of the Cross
Brian Thorpe
- Hall’s Eco-Theology of the Cross in a Climate-Changed World
Harold Wells
- What Are People For? Re-Imaging Theo-anthropology in the Anthropocene
Pamela R. McCarroll
- God and the Church after Christendom: Rethinking “Power” through Douglas Hall’s Theologia Crucis
Harris Athanasiadis
- The Relevance of the Theology of Douglas Hall for the Cuban Context
Adolfo Ham
- ReWilding the Gospel: Douglas John Hall and Post-Christendom Religious Dialogue
Gary A. Gaudin
- The Memory of Divine Pathos: Heschel, Hall, and the Hebrew Bible
Patricia G. Kirkpatrick
- The Gospel of Irresolution: Thinking along with Douglas John Hall about Cross Theology, Illness, and Not Yet Resurrection
Deanna A. Thompson
Afterword. Christian Theology after Christendom: Three Essentials
Douglas John Hall
Bibliography
About the Contributors
