Developing a New Christology for a Postmodern Culture

Knowing Christ Today

Donald D. Phillips (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

230 Seiten

2024
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic (Verlag)
978-1-9787-1608-7 (ISBN)

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In an increasingly secular, contemporary (postmodern) culture, many people have no understanding of Christianity or the importance and relevance of Jesus Christ. As a result, the Church’s traditional liturgical texts, as well as the church-oriented language often used by Christians to explain the Gospel, are not helpful or accessible to those outside the Church. To respond to this challenge, the author uses a semiotic method, based on the work of Robert Schreiter, to engage and describe the nature of contemporary postmodern culture. Using a narrative approach to the Gospels based on the work of the 20th century historical theologian, Hans Frei, the author derives a more modest, open-ended Christology which will ‘converse’ with its cultural context and continue to be interpreted within contemporary Christian communities. Using social values analysis from a particular contemporary culture, the author then forms biblical statements about the person of Jesus Christ that are congruent with those values, and uses them to construct a new Eucharistic Prayer. The result is a liturgical prayer that is accessible and enables members of that local culture to be embraced by, and to embrace, the identity of Jesus Christ.

Bishop Donald D. Phillips, PhD, is honorary fellow of St. John's College, University of Manitoba.

Chapter 1The Challenge

Chapter 2Understanding Local Culture(s)

Chapter 3Local (Contextual) Theology

Chapter 4“What about the impact of the Gospel in a local culture?”

Chapter 5Developing a Contextual Christology in a Postmodern Culture

Chapter 6Transformative Potential of Inculturated Texts in the Liturgy

Chapter 7Examining the Christology of Canadian Anglican Contemporary Eucharistic Prayers for Cultural Reflexivity

Chapter 8Bringing Together Culture and Christology in Proposed Eucharistic Prayer Texts

Chapter 9The Way Forward

Erscheinungsdatum	29.10.2024
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Gebete / Lieder / Meditationen
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Moraltheologie / Sozialethik
ISBN-10	1-9787-1608-7 / 1978716087
ISBN-13	978-1-9787-1608-7 / 9781978716087
Zustand	Neuware