Loading…

Theology in the Context of World Christianity: How the Global Church Is Influencing the Way We Think about and Discuss Theology is unavailable, but you can change that!

It’s no secret that the center of Christianity has shifted from the West to the global South and East. While the truths of the Christian faith are universal, new contexts bring new questions, new understandings, and new expressions. What does this mean for theology? Is the Christian faith not only culturally translatable, but also theologically translatable? Timothy Tennent answers this question...

theologically. The question is, ‘Do you know us theologically? Would you like to know us theologically?’ ”40 The answer up to now is that we really haven’t wanted to know much about the theological reflections of Majority World Christians. Mbiti went on to stress how “utterly scandalous” it is for students of Western theology to know more about the theology of heretics long dead than they do about the living theology of hundreds of millions of living Africans today.41 Clearly, the borders of theological
Page 16