God is Samoan: dialogues between culture and theology in the Pacific
Writing Back at the Bible -- Weavers, Servants, and Prophets -- Coconut Theology and the Cultivation of a Pacific Way -- Sea and Earth
| Published in: | Pacific Islands monograph series |
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| Main Author: | |
| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Published: |
Honolulu
University of Hawaiʿi Press
2020
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| In: |
Pacific Islands monograph series (29)
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| Series/Journal: | Pacific Islands monograph series
29 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Christianity
/ Oceania
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| IxTheo Classification: | FD Contextual theology |
| Further subjects: | B
Theology (Oceania)
B Pacific Islanders Religion B Christianity (Oceania) B Christianity and culture (Oceania) |
| Summary: | Writing Back at the Bible -- Weavers, Servants, and Prophets -- Coconut Theology and the Cultivation of a Pacific Way -- Sea and Earth "Christian theologians in the Pacific Islands pay close attention to culture, seeing it as the grounds on which one understands God and engages in dialogue with others. In this pathbreaking book, Matt Tomlinson engages in an anthropological dialogue with the work of these theologians, asking how the combination of culture and Christian theology opens up new conversations while limiting others. The kinds of dialogues that Pacific theologians engage in, Tomlinson writes, range from radical critiques of biblical stories as inappropriate for Pacific audiences to celebrations of traditional gods such as Tagaloa as essentially Christian figures. This book presents a symphony of voices-engaged, critical, prophetic-from the contemporary Pacific's leading religious thinkers, and suggests how their work articulates with broad social transformations in the region"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 0824880978 |