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This book focuses on the question of theological paradox, exploring
what it means and its place in theological method from a Christian
perspective. Just as paradoxes are unavoidable in logic and
mathematics, paradoxes are inevitable in religious and theological
discourses. The chapters in this volume examine a number of cases,
including the 'Red Heifer paradox', the 'liar paradox', and the
'paradox of omnipotence', and attention is given to Christian
doctrines such as the Trinity and the Incarnation. Arguing for a
renewed understanding and appreciation of the role of paradox, this
study will be of interest to scholars of theology and the
philosophy of religion.
A Semiotic Approach to the Theology of Inculturation argues that
though it is a difficult and delicate task, inculturation is still
a requisite demand of a World Church and that without it the Church
is unrecognisable and unsustainable. The book also suggests that
the past failures of inculturation experiments in Africa can be
overcome only by critically applying the science of semiotics,
which can serve as an antidote to the nature of human knowing and
reductionism that characterised earlier attempts to make
Christianity African to the African. Drawing from the semiotic
works of C.S. Peirce, Clifford Geertz, and Bernard Lonergan, Cyril
Orji shows why semiotics is best suited to an African theology of
inculturation and offers ten pinpointed precepts, identified as
'Habits', which underline the attentiveness, reasonableness, and
responsibility required in a semiotic approach to a theology of
inculturation. The 'Habits' are also akin to the imperatives
inherent in the notion of catholicity - that catholicity is not
identified with uniformity but with reconciled diversity, and also
that catholicity demands different forms in different places,
times, and cultural settings.
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