Developing a New Christology for a Postmodern Culture
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Author_Donald D. Phillips
Canadian culture and Christianity
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Christology
Contemporary christologies
Contemporary Eucharistic Prayer
Contextual theology
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inculturation
Liturgical theology
Liturgy
Local theology
Narrative theology
Postmodern culture
religion
religious studies
Sacramental theology
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- ISBN 9781978716087
- Weight: 494g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 07 Nov 2024
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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In an increasingly secular, contemporary (postmodern) culture, many people have no understanding of Christianity or the importance and relevance of Jesus Christ. As a result, the Church’s traditional liturgical texts, as well as the church-oriented language often used by Christians to explain the Gospel, are not helpful or accessible to those outside the Church. To respond to this challenge, the author uses a semiotic method, based on the work of Robert Schreiter, to engage and describe the nature of contemporary postmodern culture. Using a narrative approach to the Gospels based on the work of the 20th century historical theologian, Hans Frei, the author derives a more modest, open-ended Christology which will ‘converse’ with its cultural context and continue to be interpreted within contemporary Christian communities. Using social values analysis from a particular contemporary culture, the author then forms biblical statements about the person of Jesus Christ that are congruent with those values, and uses them to construct a new Eucharistic Prayer. The result is a liturgical prayer that is accessible and enables members of that local culture to be embraced by, and to embrace, the identity of Jesus Christ.
Bishop Donald D. Phillips, PhD, is honorary fellow of St. John's College, University of Manitoba.
