Doing Theology in Plural Contexts
Autor Robyn Horner, Dr Teresa Brownen Limba Engleză Paperback – 17 sep 2026
Horner and Brown bring this practice, most familiarly used in literary studies, sharply into the study of Christian theology. In doing so, they highlight how recontextualisation enabled beliefs, symbols and practices to speak anew to successive generations.
Engaging with seven challenging biblical accounts, the book shows how these texts can open onto significant issues in contemporary culture and the Church. It begins with an analysis of recontextualisation and the conceptual issues it provokes for understanding revelation and tradition. The authors then set out a process for undertaking theological recontextualisation: listening to and praying with a biblical text; engaging in critical dialogue; asking how the text is speaking to individuals and communities today and, finally, recording the recontextualisation and evaluating the process and results.
Engaging with seven challenging biblical accounts, the book shows how these texts can open onto significant issues in contemporary culture and the Church. It begins with an analysis of recontextualisation and the conceptual issues it provokes for understanding revelation and tradition. The authors then set out a process for undertaking theological recontextualisation: listening to and praying with a biblical text; engaging in critical dialogue; asking how the text is speaking to individuals and communities today and, finally, recording the recontextualisation and evaluating the process and results.
This is an essential read for leaders and teachers in Catholic education schools and systems.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780567727176
ISBN-10: 0567727173
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția T&T Clark
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0567727173
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția T&T Clark
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Cuprins
Acknowledgements
Preface: Who Needs to Read this Book?
1. Introduction
2. Jesus and the Woman Caught in Adultery-The Experience of Shame
3. Jesus and the Woman with the Haemorrhage-The Experience of Abjection
4. Jesus Stills a Storm-The Experience of Hell
5. Jesus and the Death of Lazarus-The Experiences of Grief and Compassion
6. Jesus Turns the Tables-The Experience of Anger
7. Jesus on the Road to Emmaus-The Experience of God with U
8. The Spirit of God Pours Out into the World-The Experience of Difference
Conclusion
Select Biliography
Appendix 1: Four Steps to Recontextualisation
Preface: Who Needs to Read this Book?
1. Introduction
2. Jesus and the Woman Caught in Adultery-The Experience of Shame
3. Jesus and the Woman with the Haemorrhage-The Experience of Abjection
4. Jesus Stills a Storm-The Experience of Hell
5. Jesus and the Death of Lazarus-The Experiences of Grief and Compassion
6. Jesus Turns the Tables-The Experience of Anger
7. Jesus on the Road to Emmaus-The Experience of God with U
8. The Spirit of God Pours Out into the World-The Experience of Difference
Conclusion
Select Biliography
Appendix 1: Four Steps to Recontextualisation
Recenzii
This is a fascinating and highly readable book. The theological background, namely that Christian tradition develops through recontextualisation and that we are therefore also called upon today to recontextualise that tradition ourselves, is introduced by the authors in a very understandable way. The choice of biblical texts in combination with the thematic organisation of the chapters is highly original and challenges us to reflect on bodiliness and shame, anger at injustice, mental well-being, sexual and power abuse and disaffiliation from the church.
This is a timely and deeply humane contribution to contemporary Catholic theology. Drawing on long experience in theological education and formation, Horner and Brown offer a vision of theology that is rigorously faithful to tradition while attentively responsive to plural, secular, and searching contexts. Shaped by the synodal vision animating contemporary Catholic theology, the book models a way of doing theology that listens carefully, enters dialogue generously, and allows faith to be rearticulated through lived human experience. Scripture and tradition are engaged not as static inheritances but as living sources, capable of interruption, renewal, and transformative meaning. Combining theological expertise with pedagogical experience, this volume presents theology as both an intellectual discipline and a formative practice. This is an invaluable resource for theologians, educators, and practitioners seeking a theology able to hold faith, experience, and difference in creative and life-giving relation.
Horner and Brown have produced a work of enduring significance for theologians, theological educators, pastors, and all those interested in developing a recontextualized approach to reading sacred scripture hermeneutically for our time and contexts today. Their 'four steps' framework successfully makes complex theological dimensions accessible and achievable. They demonstrate the rich and provocative results of a layered hermeneutical approach, weaving phenomenological reading, biblical criticism, post-biblical tradition, and lived contemporary context into a unified and theologically rich reflection. Experts in the field and those with limited background will both find empowerment in this work.
Readers will be especially appreciative of their choice to wrestle with 'challenging' scriptural narratives and sensitive contemporary experiences. Through this choice, they demonstrate the hermeneutical capacity of the theological tradition to speak to, from, and with the realities and questions of life today.
A best-in-class resource for both scholarship and practice.
This is a timely and deeply humane contribution to contemporary Catholic theology. Drawing on long experience in theological education and formation, Horner and Brown offer a vision of theology that is rigorously faithful to tradition while attentively responsive to plural, secular, and searching contexts. Shaped by the synodal vision animating contemporary Catholic theology, the book models a way of doing theology that listens carefully, enters dialogue generously, and allows faith to be rearticulated through lived human experience. Scripture and tradition are engaged not as static inheritances but as living sources, capable of interruption, renewal, and transformative meaning. Combining theological expertise with pedagogical experience, this volume presents theology as both an intellectual discipline and a formative practice. This is an invaluable resource for theologians, educators, and practitioners seeking a theology able to hold faith, experience, and difference in creative and life-giving relation.
Horner and Brown have produced a work of enduring significance for theologians, theological educators, pastors, and all those interested in developing a recontextualized approach to reading sacred scripture hermeneutically for our time and contexts today. Their 'four steps' framework successfully makes complex theological dimensions accessible and achievable. They demonstrate the rich and provocative results of a layered hermeneutical approach, weaving phenomenological reading, biblical criticism, post-biblical tradition, and lived contemporary context into a unified and theologically rich reflection. Experts in the field and those with limited background will both find empowerment in this work.
Readers will be especially appreciative of their choice to wrestle with 'challenging' scriptural narratives and sensitive contemporary experiences. Through this choice, they demonstrate the hermeneutical capacity of the theological tradition to speak to, from, and with the realities and questions of life today.
A best-in-class resource for both scholarship and practice.