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Author:

Chung, Paul S.

Title:

Hermeneutical theology and the imperative of public ethics : Confessing Christ in post-colonial world Christianity / Paul S. Chung; foreword by Craig L. Nessan.

Publisher:

Pickwick Publications,

Copyright Date:

c2013

Description:

xxxviii, 388 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Missions--Theory.
Christianity and culture.
Postcolonialism.

Other Authors:

Nessan, Craig L.

Notes:

Includes bibliographic references (p. 369-384) and index.

Contents:

Part One: Reformation theology, public ethics, and God's mission -- Martin Luther: Public ethics and the discipleship of God's mission -- John Calvin: Mission and evangelism -- Hermeneutics of the Word-Event in the Jewish-Christian context -- Georg F. Vicedom and God's mission in a larger framework -- Part Two: God's mission, public ethics, and Israel: Karl Barth revisited -- Theology of reconciliation: God's mission and missional church -- Hermeneutics of God's mission and prophetic diakonia -- Theological-political ethics and the discipleship of God's mission -- God's mission and Israel in the Jewish-Christian context -- Part Three: Public ethical theology and a transformative construal of the world -- Public theology and the discipleship of God's mission -- Christian social ethics and public theology -- Ethical hermeneutics, discourse ethics, moral plurality -- Moral deliberation, sociocultural embeddeness, and emancipation -- Part Four: Theological ethics and missional implication -- Ethics in integrative framework: Duty and virtue -- Theocentric ethics, theonomy, and method of correlation -- Narrative theology and a community of character -- Biblical realism and a global public theology -- Part Five: Postcolonial public theology and world Christianity -- Postcolonial public theology: Hermeneutical reorientation and comparative ethics -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer and comparative religious ethics: Minjung and Confucian ethics -- Karl Barth: Religion, pluralism, and world Christianity -- Excursus: A dialogue with Karl Barth and beyond -- Eschatology, political ethics, and liberation -- Epilogue.

Summary:

This book makes a groundbreaking attempt to propose public ethical theology within a linguistic-creational-emancipatory framework by conceptualizing a theological discourse of God, humanity, and the world for comparative religious ethics in the face of the postcolonial challenge and voice of world Christianity. --back cover

Series:

Missional church, public theology, world Christianity 2

ISBN:

1610975022
9781610975025

OCLC:

(OCoLC)867854883

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)