Description
Book SynopsisThis book presents theological, cultural, ecclesial and hermeneutical explorations from a specific context—Australia—and invites reimagining of theology and hermeneutics. The horizons of contextuality explored in this book include indigeneity and sovereignty, contingencies of context, feminist theology, multiculturalism and intercultural theologies, sexual abuse and ecclesial coverups, suicide and worship, tradition(ing)s and betrayal, art and popular culture, climate effect and climate justice, disability theories, Islamic insights, migration and the images of home, and heaps of contextual matters in between. The chapters are organized into three sections: (1) Roots presents some of the starting points for contextual thinking in Australia and yonder; (2) Wounds attends to the demands of “bodies on the line” upon theological, biblical and ecclesial engagements; (3) Shifts pokes at thinkers and critics.
Table of ContentsList of Figures
Preface
Acknowledgment
1Bloody (con)Texts
Jione Havea
Part 1: Roots
2.Postcolonial Colonialism and its Multiple Contexts of Solidarity
Mark G. Brett
3.A Kaleidoscopic Vessel Sailing a Kyriarchal Ocean: The Third Wave Feminist Theologies of Women-Church (1987–2007)
Anita J. Monro
4.The Reason We Do Not Hear: Theology Struggling with its Colonial Location
Chris Budden
5.Multiculturalism as Theology and Policy: The Challenges and Possibilities
John G. Flett
Part 2: Wounds
6.Grace and Disgraced: Child Sexual Abuse and the Holy Roman Catholic Australian Church
Cristina Lledo Gomez
7.When Easter Dawns and All is Not Well: A Pastoral Encounter with Disappointment
Cathryn McKinney
8.Faithfulness or Betrayal? Tradition in “Geriatric Assemblies”
Stephen Burns
Part 3: Shifts
9.Images of Jesus and Masculinity in the Work of the Artist Reg Mombassa
Rod Pattenden
10.Climate as Context
Anne Elvey
11.Reframing the Way We Read the Glorified (Veiled) Moses at Sinai and Corinth
Emmanuel Nathan
12.Who is the “Us”? Shifting the Audience for Christ’s Sake
Clive Pearson
13.Reimagining Home: Migration and Identity in a Changing Climate
Seforosa Carroll
Bibliography
Index
About the Contributors
