Faith

I thought long and hard about this article: I have thought for a while, “What do you write in the Messenger (church mag) that will continue to be distributed after you have left?” My problem is that I haven’t really come up with an answer. There are several options that face me: Do I write about some of the good things that have happened... [Read more of this review]

Bevans approach to contextualisation is that all theology is a contextualised to some degree or another (Bevans 2002:3). He offers six models of contextual theology: Translation By the translation model, we do not mean a mere word-for word correspondence of, say, doctrinal language of one culture into doctrinal language of another. Rather we are concerned... [Read more of this review]

Schriter talks about “local theologies” and offers three models: Translation, Adaption and Contextual. He justifies the use of a model as the means by which one may engage with theological reflection with some specific principles to help the individual approach the subject. Although he avoids using the terms contextual until the final model,... [Read more of this review]