Theology As Threshold

Jione Havea; Emily Colgan; Nasili Vaka‘uta

doi:10.5771/9781978714809

Summary

What thresholds of theology would we cross if we engage the aches and despairs, wisdoms, and hopes in and of Aotearoa New Zealand and the neighboring sea of islands? What thresholds need to be jarred or moved (threshold as opening), probed and raised (threshold as limit)? This book engages these questions in two parts: “(re)Locating Theological Studies” contains essays that interrogate the purposes of theological studies (locally and globally), identify gaps due to the Western heritage and blind spots of “traditional theology,” and provide examples of how those gaps may be bridged when local concerns are engaged; “Nativizing Theological Studies” contains essays that present and engage the heritage and wisdom of tangata whenua (indigenous, native people) of Aotearoa and Pasifika. These essays reaffirm the “native” rhetoric with pride. This collection of essays affirms that theological studies have a future, and that there is a role for theologians in and from Aotearoa New Zealand and Pasifika to play in navigating (into) that future.

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Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-9787-1479-3
ISBN-Online: 978-1-9787-1480-9
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 258
Product type: Edited Book

1. Dedication No access
2. Contents No access
3. 1. Glossary No access
  2. Notes No access
4. Preface No access
1. Haere mai No access
2. Talanoa No access
3. So What? No access
4. Notes No access
1. 1. Theological Education Has Become Irrelevant No access
  2. Theological Education Must Be Transformed No access
  3. Theological Education Must Be Grounded No access
  4. Theological Education Must Empower No access
  5. Notes No access
2. 1. Connections: A Worldwide Network “throughout the world” No access
  2. Conclusions No access
  3. Notes No access
3. 1. Theological Education of the Concrete Church No access
  2. Gift Exchange in Pacific Contexts No access
  3. A Dominant Presbyterian Story No access
  4. An Indigenous Presbyterian Story No access
  5. Across the pae: Denominational Comparisons No access
  6. Future of Theological Education No access
  7. Primary sources No access
  8. Notes No access
4. 1. Around a Kitchen Table No access
  2. Framework for Reading the Vine and the Branches No access
  3. The Threshold of the Oikoumenē No access
  4. John 15:1–15 No access
  5. Conclusion No access
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5. 1. Creating Safe Spaces for Students No access
  2. Interrogating Biblical Texts of Terror No access
  3. Notes No access
6. 1. Asking the Right Questions No access
  2. Asking the Right Questions to See Sexual Abuse in Matthew 27:26–31 No access
  3. Responses to the Naming of Sexual Abuse No access
  4. Conclusion No access
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7. 1. Listening to the Silenced Voices No access
  2. Theological Educators as Midwives No access
  3. Thresholds of Theological Education: Birthing Alternatives No access
  4. Conclusion No access
  5. Notes No access
8. 1. Signature Pedagogies and Theology No access
  2. Connecting Signature Pedagogies and Digital Technology No access
  3. Critical Engagement with the Internet as an Element of Teaching Religion No access
  4. Blended Learning No access
  5. Conclusion No access
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1. 1. Māori Traditions, History No access
  2. Indigenous Theology No access
  3. Māori Theology—Indigenous Realities No access
  4. Karakia Māori19 No access
  5. Te Tiriti o Waitangi No access
  6. Conclusion No access
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2. 1. History No access
  2. Indigenous Decision-Making No access
  3. Bicultural Democracy No access
  4. Conclusion No access
  5. Glossary No access
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3. 1. (Ngai Tuteāuru, Ngā Puhi) No access
  2. He whakautu: Confronting a Colonized Theology No access
  3. A Colonized Jesus No access
  4. A Token Jesus No access
  5. A Native Jesus No access
  6. He Kaupapa Kōrero: Further Discussion No access
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4. 1. Oral Narrative No access
  2. A Tangata Whenua Worldview No access
  3. Conclusion No access
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5. 1. Wheiao No access
  2. The Bible and wheiao No access
  3. Exploring wheiao No access
  4. Lessons from wheiao for Crossing Thresholds in Theological Education No access
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6. 1. The Ocean in Ecclesiastes No access
  2. Reclaiming Moana: Resurf(ac)ing the Sea in the Hebrew Bible No access
  3. The Changing Ocean-Face of Moana No access
  4. Moana: Reconfiguring מקום No access
  5. Moana: Futility in Diaspora? No access
  6. Conclusion No access
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7. 1. Invitation No access
  2. Meke No access
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Bibliography No access Pages 231 - 248
Index No access Pages 249 - 252
Contributors No access Pages 253 - 258