Doing Theology in Plural Contexts

Robyn Horner is Professor of Theology at Australian Catholic University, AustraliaTeresa Brown is a Senior Lectuer in Theology at Australian Catholic University, Australia.

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.

• AcknowledgementsPreface: Who Needs to Read this Book?1. Introduction2. Jesus and the Woman Caught in Adultery—The Experience of Shame3. Jesus and the Woman with the Haemorrhage—The Experience of Abjection4. Jesus Stills a Storm—The Experience of Hell5. Jesus and the Death of Lazarus—The Experiences of Grief and Compassion6. Jesus Turns the Tables—The Experience of Anger7. Jesus on the Road to Emmaus—The Experience of God with U8. The Spirit of God Pours Out into the World—The Experience of DifferenceConclusionSelect BiliographyAppendix: Four Steps to Recontextualisation