Contextualizing Theology in the South Pacific: The Shape of Theology in Oral Cultures

This book engages with a widespread contemporary dilemma--how do we do theology in a context where the cultures of the people are oral and not literate?

The nations of the South Pacific, from their missionary beginnings, inherited an approach to theology that was dominated by Western cultural categories. The global movement of contextualization began to impact upon Pacific churches in the 1960s, and challenged this inherited approach. Significant changes have resulted, but the dilemma has re...