Between Englishness and Ethiopianism: Making A Space for Intercultural Theology
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2012-12
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Ghana Journal of Religion and Theology (GJRT)
Abstract
Originally an address delivered to open the 2010-11
academic year at Princeton Theological Seminary, the essay
grounds itself in the Ephesians vision of a New Humanity and
articulates a theological orientation that discourages
trivialization of cultural particularities. It then opens a
conversation on the necessity of intercultural theology. As
theological curricula are usually overcrowded, a case is argued
that to make space, someone (a discipline, etc.) will have to
yield space. To envision the possibility, I use a Ghanaian novel,
Ethiopia Unbound (1911), as evidence of the creative power
unleashed, theologically, when the practice of having cross-cultural
interlocutors is fostered in students.
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Englishness, Ethiopianism, Intercultural Theology