RT Article
T1 Contextualization and the "Death and Resurrection" Pattern
JF Mission studies
VO 39
IS 1
SP 70
OP 94
A1 Kramer, E. J. David 1977-
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1793884579
AB Grasping contextualization through the New Testament pattern of ‘death and resurrection’, invigorates the conversation between missiology and systematic theology and affords numerous conceptual benefits. By employing N.T. Wright’s rendition of the Apostle Paul’s life-transformation as ‘dying and rising with Christ’, a pattern suggests itself that accounts for both continuity and discontinuity between Paul’s former life and his life ‘in Christ’. When this pattern informs theological reflection on contextualization, its shape and significance can be better appreciated and named. This is demonstrated with reference to three systematic loci. First, Christology: the widespread incarnational model for understanding contextualization is expanded to include Christ’s death and resurrection. Second, soteriology: the death and resurrection pattern llumines conversion as both a point and a process. Third, eschatology: this same pattern sheds light on contextualization’s final significance for humanity’s life in the new creation.
K1 N.T. Wright
K1 conversion eschatology
K1 Christology
K1 Transformation
K1 Death
K1 Resurrection
K1 Contextualization
DO 10.1163/15733831-12341830