Circles of Dignity
Community Wisdom and Theological Reflection
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Circles of Dignity: Community Wisdom and Theological Reflection
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.
- Publisher Fortress Press
- Format Paperback
- ISBN 9780800631826
- Dimensions 6 x 9
- Pages 240
- Publication Date October 1, 1999
Endorsements
"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 refernce 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
— John W. de Gruchy
Table of Contents
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Foreword by John W. deGruchy
- Salt Stops Ghosts: Context and Scope of Local Wisdom
- Incipient Theologies: Marginal Reflections on Faith
- Tradition and Domination
- Asymmetries of Power
- Voices of the Other
- Widening the Circle: The Personal and the Public
- Center and Boundary: The Geography of Faith
Mapping the Territory
Preface
Introduction: A Journey within Boundaries
Context of Reading: The Community at Amawoti
The Interpretative World of Amawoti
Conclusion
Who Is Jesus Christ?
Redeeming the Broken Body
Conclusion
The Coherence of Context and Tradition
Truth in Tradition and Life
Power and the Reproduction of Meaning
Commitment and Collaboration
The Self and the Other
The Social Intelligibility of Local Knowledge
"Starting in Galilee": Incipient Theology from the Margins
"Dealing with Herod/Pilate": The Public Task of the Church
A Gestalt of Theology
Displacing the Center
Claiming Space: Embodied in a Story
Configuring the Boundary
From Boundary to Center: Refashioning the Geography of Faith
Notes
Bibliography
Index