Abstract
All theology is rooted in context. European-North Atlantic theology has long dominated the mediation of theological discourse, and imposed implicit controls on the agent, locus and methodology of theology. The churches of the “periphery” are now seeking to establish the importance of their own context in doing theology, and are evaluating the validity of the hegemony of the theology of the “centre”. Liberation theology, in particular, regarded as a “neoorthodoxy”, is developing what could be called a contextualised orthodoxy. What is the role, status and function of contextualised orthodoxy?
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