Living Dialogical Conversation: Reading John 4:1–42 through the Lens of Post-colonial Indonesian Christianity

This article is an analytical description that aims to scrutinize John 4:1-42 to understand how the Gospel of John describes a theological perspective within a certain socio-political context and, conversely, how the socio-political context determines the theological meaning through John’s storytell...

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Authors: Gaspersz, Steve Gerardo Christoffel (Author) ; Souisa, Nancy Novitra (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: School 2022
In: Toronto journal of theology
Year: 2022, Volume: 38, Issue: 2, Pages: 178-189
IxTheo Classification:CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations
CH Christianity and Society
FD Contextual theology
KBM Asia
Further subjects:B multicultural society
B Religious Identity
B New Testament
B Biblical Interpretation
B post-colonial imagination
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Summary:This article is an analytical description that aims to scrutinize John 4:1-42 to understand how the Gospel of John describes a theological perspective within a certain socio-political context and, conversely, how the socio-political context determines the theological meaning through John’s storytelling model. By using post-colonial imagination as its framework for text analysis, this article aims to construct a dialogue bridge between the text and the context of multicultural Indonesian society. The imaginary bridge as such functions to provide a critical biblical interpretation such as this text, which is often read as the representation of conflictual socio-cultural and religious identities such as in Indonesian society. This article is a biblical-based theological contribution to interpretive biblical studies in countries such as Indonesia with a majority Muslim population, which exposes the construction of socio-religious identity vis-à-vis othering tendencies based on different representations of identity.
ISSN:1918-6371
Contains:Enthalten in: Toronto journal of theology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.3138/tjt-2022-0002