Teaching Christian Ethics Beyond Europe and North America: From a Postgraduate Research Seminar to a Theology of Listening

This article explores the process of teaching Christian theological ethics beyond the common focus on European and North American sources. In conversation with moves to decolonise university curricula, the article proposes a theology of listening, an example of a research seminar for master’s and do...

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Main Author: Heimburger, Robert W. 1979- (Author)
Contributors: Murillo Torres, Samuel Efraín ; Sam, James Wesly
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: 2024
In: Studies in Christian ethics
Year: 2024, Volume: 37, Issue: 1, Pages: 93-110
IxTheo Classification:FA Theology
FB Theological education
FD Contextual theology
NCA Ethics
Further subjects:B Theology
B Education
B Listening
B Dietrich Bonhoeffer
B decolonising the curriculum
B Moral Theology
B Christian Ethics
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Summary:This article explores the process of teaching Christian theological ethics beyond the common focus on European and North American sources. In conversation with moves to decolonise university curricula, the article proposes a theology of listening, an example of a research seminar for master’s and doctoral students at the University of Aberdeen on Christian ethics beyond Europe and North America, and an exploration of broader challenges for the formation of the theologian. The article asks, what can we learn when we give up power and control when teaching and learning theology? How can we shift our methods of knowing and practising theology? We write as theologians from India, Mexico, and the United States living in the United Kingdom. We reflect on forms of exclusion in theological method and formation that arise from colonising, systemic violence, and inequalities. The article considers intercultural challenges when encountering different methods of reflection on the Christian experience. In a search for a more profoundly theological approach, we propose listening to the other as integral to doing theology. In an intercultural move, we draw on Dietrich Bonhoeffer's theology of listening, proposing that theology must be an advent of voices from beyond our usual places and methods.
ISSN:0953-9468
Contains:Enthalten in: Studies in Christian ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/09539468231215305