Developing a New Christology for a Postmodern Culture
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Developing a New Christology for a Postmodern Culture

Knowing Christ Today

  1. 215 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Developing a New Christology for a Postmodern Culture

Knowing Christ Today

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Chapter 1: The Challenge
  9. Chapter 2: Understanding Local Culture(s)
  10. Chapter 3: Local (Contextual) Theology
  11. Chapter 4: “What about the impact of the Gospel in a local culture?”
  12. Chapter 5: Developing a Contextual Christology in a Postmodern Culture
  13. Chapter 6: Transformative Potential of Inculturated Texts in the Liturgy
  14. Chapter 7: Examining the Christology of Canadian Anglican Contemporary Eucharistic Prayers for Cultural Reflexivity
  15. Chapter 8: Bringing Together Culture and Christology in Proposed Eucharistic Prayer Texts
  16. Chapter 9: The Way Forward
  17. Appendix
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index
  20. About the Author