The image is the offical 2022 National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee (NAIDOC) poster for NAIDOC Week. From the website: “National NAIDOC Week celebrations are held across Australia in the first week of July each year (Sunday to Sunday), to celebrate and recognise the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander… Indigenous Theologies
Eroding the hard category or “religion,” such as accomplished by Wilfred Cantwell Smith, Jonathan Z. Smith, Talal Asad, and Timothy Fitzgerald, enables a coordinate eroding of its apposite: secularity. Not only, or even as of first concern, is this an issue of Christian “decline” in the lands of Corpus Christianum. Rather, as the binary of… Internationalising (and Decolonising) Secularisation
The central figure in the Christian faith is the person Jesus Christ. An obvious statement perhaps, but it establishes a question of how a person who lived over 2000 years ago might be a present and living reality in communities situated within a multitude of diverse cultures. This issue of Jesus Christ’s present embodiment leads… The Diverse, Rich, and Critical Imaging of Jesus Christ
Intercultural theology came into existence with the very origins of the faith. Much of the New Testament record is an account of intercultural negotiation and the formation of communities of difference and resulted in significant theological developments, such as the doctrine of justification. Intercultural theology, in other words, is long traditioned way of doing theology.… Context and Intercultural Theology
It is a difficult but important task to express complex ideas in simple ways. Images often betray a lack of conceptual complexity. Take for example the idea of “multiculturalism.” Google this and you will find thousands of images of hands: hands of different hue, hands in the air, hands creating different shapes, but always hands.… The Imagery/imaginary of Intercultural Theology
The image is Heinrich Bünting, Die gantze Welt in einem Kleberblat / Welches ist der Stadt Hannover meines lieben Vaterlandes Wapen (“The entire world in the shape of a clover-leaf, which is the emblem of the city of Hannover, my beloved homeland”), 1581, woodcut print. The idea of “world Christianity” is a development—but it is… The Conceptual Maps of World Christianity