Postcolonial Public Theology is a tour de force: a study in theological reflection in conversation with the most compelling intellectual discourses of our time, offering prophetic challenge to the hegemony of economic globalisation. While evolutionary science searches for an ethically responsible practice of rationality, and inter-religious engagement forces Christians to grapple with the realities of cultural hybridity, Postcolonial Public Theology makes the case for public theology to turn toward postcolonial imagination, demonstrating a fresh rethinking of the public and global issues that continue to emerge in the aftermath of colonialism. Paul S. Chung provides students and scholars with a fascinating framework for imagining a polycentric Christianity as well as for discussing the continuing importance of Christian theology in the public arena.

Foreword by Lois Malcolm
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations

Introduction

Part I: Confession, Contextual Interpretation, and Public Issues
1. Martin Luther: Contextualization and Public Witness
2. Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Postcolonial Reading and Contextualization
3. Karl Barth: Analogical Hermeneutics, Divine Action, and Public Witness

Part II: Public Theology and Scientific Rationality
4. Postcolonial Imagination, Postmodernity, and Recognition of the Other
5. Faith, Scientific Rationality, and Evolution
6. Ted Peters: Prolepsis, Divine Action, and Grace

Part III: Public Theology, Prophetic Dialogue, and Justice
7. Ernst Troeltsch: Public Theology, Historical-Critical Inquiry, and Hermeneutical Reorientation
8. Public Religious Theology: Christians and Buddhists
9. Public Theology and World Economy: Prophetic Diakonia and Economic Justice

Afterword: Public Theology, Ecology, and Confucianism

Bibliography
Index

• Foreword by Lois Malcolm (PDF, 66 KB)
• Introduction (PDF, 117 KB)
• Chapter 4: Postcolonial Imagination, Postmodernity, and Recognition of the Other (PDF, 110 KB)

Paul S. Chung is visiting professor at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. He is the author of Church and Ethical Responsibility in the Midst of World Economy (James Clarke, 2014), as well as The Hermeneutical Self and an Ethical Difference (James Clarke, 2012).