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Among the many factors that separate churches in the West from
those of the global South-worship styles, approaches to Scripture,
demographic trends of growth or decline-there may be no greater
difference than their respective attitudes toward super-natural
"powers and principalities." In this groundbreaking follow-up to
her book For Freedom or Bondage? African theologian Esther Acolatse
attempts to bridge this enormous hermeneutical gap-one that exists
not only between the West and global Christianity but also between
the West and its own biblical-theological heritage. Interacting
with the work of Kwesi Dickson, Rudolph Bultmann, Walter Wink, Karl
Barth, and others, Acolatse facilitates an intercultural,
contextualized approach to hermeneutics that is at once global,
creedal, and faithful to the biblical witness.
In Ghana today, many people who suffer from a variety of human ills
wander from one pastor to another in search of a spiritual cure.
Because of the way cultural beliefs about the spiritual world have
interwoven with their Christian faith, many Ghanaian Christians
live in bondage to their fears of evil spiritual powers, seeing
Jesus as a superior power to use against these malevolent spiritual
forces. In For Freedom or Bondage? Esther Acolatse argues that
Christian pastoral practices in many African churches include too
much influence from African traditional religions. She examines
Ghana Independent Charismatic churches as a case study, offering
theological and psychological analysis of current pastoral care
practices through the lenses of Barth and Jung. Facilitating a
three-strand conversation between African traditional religion,
Barthian theology, and Jungian analytical psychology, Acolatse
interrogates problematic cultural narratives and offers a more
nuanced approach to pastoral care
In this book, established scholars from different religions,
regions, and disciplines continue the dialogue that Veli-Matti
Karkkainen began in his A Constructive Christian Theology for the
Pluralistic World series and respond to his work in light of their
diverse expertise and context. Each of the three parts focuses on a
key area of Karkkainen's engaging work: 1) highlighting how his
method shaped each volume, 2) highlighting his commitment to global
perspectives, and 3) highlighting his interreligious and
interdisciplinary dialogue partners. Together, these essays seek to
deepen and extend the impact of Karkkainen's work, taking it
seriously as a substantive model for contemporary systematic
theology in listening and engaging with this world.
The study of lived religion is an enterprise which attempts to
elucidate how 'ordinary' men and women in all times and places draw
on religious behavior, media, and meanings to make sense of
themselves and their world. Through the influence of liberation
theology and postmodernism, pastoral theologians_like other
scholars of religion_have begun more closely to examine the
particularity of religious practice that is reflected through the
rubric of lived religion. Pastoral Bearings offers up ten studies
that exemplify the usefulness of the lived religion paradigm to the
field of pastoral theology. The volume presents detailed
qualitative research focused on the everyday beliefs and practices
of individuals and groups and explores the implications of lived
religion for interdisciplinary conversation, intercultural and
gender analysis, and congregational studies. Reflecting upon the
utility of this approach for pastoral theological research,
education, and pastoral care, the studies collected in Pastoral
Bearings demonstrate the importance of the study of lived religion.
The study of lived religion is an enterprise which attempts to
elucidate how "ordinary" men and women in all times and places draw
on religious behavior, media, and meanings to make sense of
themselves and their world. Through the influence of liberation
theology and postmodernism, pastoral theologians like other
scholars of religion have begun more closely to examine the
particularity of religious practice that is reflected through the
rubric of lived religion. Pastoral Bearings offers up ten studies
that exemplify the usefulness of the lived religion paradigm to the
field of pastoral theology. The volume presents detailed
qualitative research focused on the everyday beliefs and practices
of individuals and groups and explores the implications of lived
religion for interdisciplinary conversation, intercultural and
gender analysis, and congregational studies. Reflecting upon the
utility of this approach for pastoral theological research,
education, and pastoral care, the studies collected in Pastoral
Bearings demonstrate the importance of the study of lived religion.
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