- Title : Doing Theology as If People Mattered
- Imprint : Herder & Herder
- Table of Content : Acknowledgments
Foreword
Introduction
PART I: FOUNDATIONS
1. Reconciled Diversity: Theology and Spirituality in the
Ecumenical Journe
2. From First-Century Mediterranea to Twenty-First-
Century North America: A Long Tradition of
Contextual Distance Education
3. Why Read the Church Fathers? Teaching Nicaea as
Contextual Theology
4. The Theopoetic Constitution of the Church:
Christian Ecumenism as a Theological Context
5. Sacramental and Liturgical Theology from the Inside
Out: How Diverse Socio-Cultural Realities Change
the Questions and Shape the Pedagogy of a Shared
Tradition
6. Evaluating the Effectiveness of Culturally
Contextualized Theology
PART II: INTO THE FIELD
7. Mapping the Spiritual Exercises Along the Camino
Ignaciano
8. Field Education at a Shared Parish: Navigating
Contextual and Pastoral Opportunitie
9. Becoming a Contextual Theologian: Doing Ethics
from Below
10. Meeting Others on Holy Ground: The Intercultural
Context of Interreligious Education
11. Women, Wisdom, Action: Contextual Theology in the
Key of Memory and Narrative
12. Imprisoned Theology: The Nightmare Deaths of John
and Lori Rainwater
13. From Berkeley to Jerusalem: An Experiment in
Contextual Education
14. Pope Francis as a Contextual Theologian
Afterword
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David Pocta (Author)
David Pocta is a Christian Spirituality Scholar, ministry builder, and educator. After nearly three decades of pastoral work, he returned to school for his PhD in Christian Contemporary Spirituality. His work blends his experience in pastoral ministry with spirituality scholarship. His research interests include the spiritual journey, spiritual wilderness, contemporary evangelical church culture, and Christian mysticism. His dissertation addressed how the spiritual journey of Christians, when in their own wilderness, exposes the need for a reimagined church culture in Protestant evangelicalism. David is a collaborator and builder. He enjoys creating spaces for honest dialogue and authentic learning. He lives with his wife of more than thirty years in San Antonio and treasures having his daughters, son-in-law, and grandchildren nearby.
David Pocta (Author)
David Pocta is a Christian Spirituality Scholar, ministry builder, and educator. After nearly three decades of pastoral work, he returned to school for his PhD in Christian Contemporary Spirituality. His work blends his experience in pastoral ministry with spirituality scholarship. His research interests include the spiritual journey, spiritual wilderness, contemporary evangelical church culture, and Christian mysticism. His dissertation addressed how the spiritual journey of Christians, when in their own wilderness, exposes the need for a reimagined church culture in Protestant evangelicalism. David is a collaborator and builder. He enjoys creating spaces for honest dialogue and authentic learning. He lives with his wife of more than thirty years in San Antonio and treasures having his daughters, son-in-law, and grandchildren nearby.
This book narrates a reflexive account of the "doing" of contextual theology at the Jesuit School of Theology (JST) of Santa Clara University. The collection explores practicing contextual theology in the classroom and beyond, in service, international immersions, interreligious dialogue, and mission. This collection narrates the story of contextual theology at JST: how the School came to select this theological method and how it guides the vision and mission of the School; how contextual theology shapes pedagogy and work in the classroom; how contextual theology and education flourish in ministerial praxis in the local intercultural San Francisco Bay Area; and more.
