What is Constructive Theology?: Histories, Methodologies, and Perspectives
This essential introduction to contemporary constructive theology charts the most important disciplinary trends of the moment. It gives a historical overview of the field and discusses key hermeneutical and methodological concerns. The contributors apply a constructive perspective to a wide range of approaches, ranging from biblical hermeneutics and postcolonial studies to comparative, political, and black theology.

What is Constructive Theology? shows how diverse and interdisciplinary constructive theology can be by exploring key themes in the field. The contributors explore the porous boundaries between Christianity and other religions, reflect on contextual, liberation and constructive theologies from Africa and from Black British perspectives, explore the connection between embodiment, epistemology and hermeneutics, and take a constructive approach to the dangerous memories and theologies of colonial histories in Belgium and Native Americans in the United States. This sampler of the field will help you rethink theologies and find constructive alternatives.

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What is Constructive Theology?: Histories, Methodologies, and Perspectives
This essential introduction to contemporary constructive theology charts the most important disciplinary trends of the moment. It gives a historical overview of the field and discusses key hermeneutical and methodological concerns. The contributors apply a constructive perspective to a wide range of approaches, ranging from biblical hermeneutics and postcolonial studies to comparative, political, and black theology.

What is Constructive Theology? shows how diverse and interdisciplinary constructive theology can be by exploring key themes in the field. The contributors explore the porous boundaries between Christianity and other religions, reflect on contextual, liberation and constructive theologies from Africa and from Black British perspectives, explore the connection between embodiment, epistemology and hermeneutics, and take a constructive approach to the dangerous memories and theologies of colonial histories in Belgium and Native Americans in the United States. This sampler of the field will help you rethink theologies and find constructive alternatives.

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What is Constructive Theology?: Histories, Methodologies, and Perspectives

What is Constructive Theology?: Histories, Methodologies, and Perspectives

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This essential introduction to contemporary constructive theology charts the most important disciplinary trends of the moment. It gives a historical overview of the field and discusses key hermeneutical and methodological concerns. The contributors apply a constructive perspective to a wide range of approaches, ranging from biblical hermeneutics and postcolonial studies to comparative, political, and black theology.

What is Constructive Theology? shows how diverse and interdisciplinary constructive theology can be by exploring key themes in the field. The contributors explore the porous boundaries between Christianity and other religions, reflect on contextual, liberation and constructive theologies from Africa and from Black British perspectives, explore the connection between embodiment, epistemology and hermeneutics, and take a constructive approach to the dangerous memories and theologies of colonial histories in Belgium and Native Americans in the United States. This sampler of the field will help you rethink theologies and find constructive alternatives.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780567696540
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 04/21/2022
Series: Rethinking Theologies: Constructing Alternatives in History and Doctrine
Pages: 248
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.53(d)

About the Author

Marion Grau is Professor of Systematic Theology, Ecumenism and Missiology at MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society, Norway.

Marion Grau is Professor of Systematic Theology, Ecumenism and Missiology at MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society, Norway.

Jason Wyman is Adjunct Professor at Manhattan College, USA.

Steed Davidson received his Ph.D. from Union Theological Seminary, New York. He is an Assistant Professor of Old Testament at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, Berkeley California. His teaching centers on prophetic books, paying attention to ancient empires and responses to empires in the formation of texts.


Steed Vernyl Davidson is Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible at McCormick Theological Seminary, USA.



Susannah Cornwall is Advanced Research Fellow in Theology and Religion at the University of Exeter, UK.

Table of Contents

Introduction, Marion Grau (MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society, Norway) and Jason Wyman (Manhattan College, USA)

Part I: Reflecting on the History, Genre and Theory
1. Constructive Theology: History, Movement, Method, Jason Wyman (Manhattan College, USA)
2. Constructive Theology as Theopoetics: Theological Construction as Divine-Human Creativity, John Thatamanil (Union Theological Seminary, USA)
3. Mapping Methods in Constructive Theology, Marion Grau (MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society, Norway)

Part II: Body, Text, Interdisciplinarity, and Practice

4. Embodied Knowing: Body, Epistemology, Context, and Hermeneutics, Heike Peckruhn (Daemen College, USA)
5. Constructive Biblical Hermeneutics: History and its Afterlife, Shelly Rambo (Boston University School of Theology, USA)
6. Snakes in the Basket: The Blessed Risks of Constructive Comparative Theology, Holly Hillgardner (Independent Scholar, USA)
7. Constructive Black Theology in Britain: Participative-Methodological Praxis, Anthony Reddie (University of South Africa, South Africa)

Part III: Postcolonial Reconstructions
8. Starting with the Land Under Our Feet: Settler Colonialism as a source for Political Theology in America, Laurie Cassidy (Creighton University, USA)
9. Ransomed by Money? Towards an African Constructive Theology, Lawrence Nwankwo (Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Nigeria)
10. Cross and Resurrection as Post/colonial Trauma: Rewriting History, Reimagining Soteriology, Judith Gruber (Catholic University Leuven, Belgium)

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