Deeply challenging the theological status quo, this important work searches for a new theological and ministerial paradigm in our time of massive social, economic, and geopolitical change. Guided by liberation theology and even more by his remarkable experience with south African indigenous groups and popular religion, Cochrane believes that theology's future role will be to listen to the "local wisdom" of religious people at society's margins, to widen the circle to encompass its public relevance, and to leverage the insights at the margin to displace the center.
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"Cochrane brings to this task all the skills he has accumulated as an academic theologian and a political activist over many years. What is most remarkable about Circles of Dignity is Cochrane's ability to bring together in creative interaction the key loci of Christian tradition, contemporary hermeneutical debates, and the 'incipient theology' of his reference community as it reads the Bible in relation to eking out an existence on the peripheries of society. Lively and challenging." -- ---John W. de Gruchy
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James R. Cochrane is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. He is author or editor of six prior volumes on practical theology and social transformation.
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incipient theology, incipient theologies, public transcript, interpretative activity, trained reader, ill relation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
South Africa, Circles of Dignity, Jesus Christ, Salt Stops Ghosts, Widening the Circle, Golden Rule, Karl Barth, Karl Marx New!
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- Southern Africa (Studies in Historical Geography) by A. J. Christopher in Back Matter
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