Description
Book SynopsisIn Indigenous and Christian Perspectives in Dialogue, Allen G. Jorgenson asks what Christian theologians might learn from Indigenous spiritualties and worldviews. Jorgenson argues that theology in North America has been captive to colonial conceits and has lost sight of key resources in a post-Christendom context. The volume is especially concerned with the loss of a sense of place, evident in theologies written without attention to context. Using a comparative theology methodology, wherein more than one faith tradition is engaged in dialogical exploration, Jorgenson uses insights from Indigenous understandings of place to illumine forgotten or obstructed themes in Christianity. In this constructive theological project, “kairotic” places are named as those that are kenotic, harmonic, poetic and especially enlightening at the margins, where we meet the religious other.
Table of ContentsTable of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: Indigenous Insights
Chapter Two: Luther And Kenotic Space
Chapter Three: Schleiermacher and Harmonic Place
Chapter Four: The Poetic Potency of Place
Chapter Five: Place at the Margins, Hope, and Living Interfaithfully
Bibliography
Index
