I sometimes like calling myself a "contextual theologian." Whether I have the knowledge and competence to call myself a "theologian" is debatable. But if I can so designate myself, then certainly my sub-specialty would be in contextualization of theology. The problem is that "contextual theology" gets a bit of a bad rap. Often people connect …
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Theology and Anthropology, Part 3
I think of this part as a bit more straightforward. Cultural Anthropology is important in contextual theology. Consider the above image. The Bible comes to us as divine revelation that is embedded in certain source cultures (Ancient Jewish and Hellenstic-Roman particularly). If we accept that the canon of Scripture is closed, and identify that the …