Intercultural Epiphanies: Reconciling Grace in the Global South

Name: Intercultural Epiphanies: Reconciling Grace in the Global South
Brand: Orbis Books
SKU: 978-1-62698-686-2
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Intercultural Epiphanies: Reconciling Grace in the Global South

Author:Antonio D. Sison

Binding: Paperback

ISBN: 9781626986862

Page Count: 256

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⭐Advance Praise and Reviews⭐

“In this beautiful, inspiring book, Antonio D. Sison probes beneath colonial iconography and architecture in Asia and Latin America and discovers astonishing understandings of faith articulated by simple Christians right under the noses of their colonial masters and taskmasters. His artist’s eye helps us to see God’s revelation and reconciliation in unlikely places and among unlikely peoples, leading us to intercultural epiphanies.”—Stephen B. Bevans, Louis J. Luzbetak, SVD Professor Emeritus of Mission and Culture, Catholic Theological Union

“Antonio D. Sison unquestionably establishes himself as one of the foremost authorities on the encounter between Christianity and cultures. Combining vast theological scholarship with deep insights on art and architecture, Sison offers a rare tour de force on interculturation in the Global South, including the Philippines, Vietnam, and Mexico. I strongly recommend the book for all those interested in how the Gospel is accepted and celebrated in the Global South.”—Peter C. Phan, inaugural holder of the Ellacuría Chair of Catholic Social Thought, Georgetown University

“Antonio D. Sison shows how the peoples of the Global South turned inculturation into an act of reconciliation—reclaiming their dignity even within the faith of those who colonized them. Read alongside Pope Leo XIV's reckoning in Magnifica Humanitas with the Church's own complicity in slavery—that ‘wound in Christian memory’—Sison's book becomes the grace-filled truth-telling the whole Church now needs to hear.” —Enzo del Brocco, CP, president, Catholic Theological Union

“Antonio D. Sison shows how inculturation can become a locus theologicus—a pathway to reconciliation, in which God and the Christian Gospel manifest through the aesthetic and poetic sensibility of the Global South. Liberation and inculturation become intertwined as an epiphany in the serendipity of mutual creation.”—Angel F. Méndez Montoya, professor, theology and the philosophy of religion, Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City

This fascinating exploration of how Catholics around the world integrate the practices of faith with their distinctive cultures shows how such practices both enrich and reconcile.

In this sequel to his The Art of Indigenous Theology, which offered an historical look at how the faith has been expressed in different cultures, author Antonio Sison explores three contemporary “case studies “of living inculturation of the Christian faith in the Global South.

Professors and advanced students of theology, world Christianity, and missiology, as well as senior staff at mission agencies will find this book both helpful and enlightening.

Contents

1. Islands of Inculturation: A Filipino Miracle of Multiplication

2. The Re-Homing of Our Lady of La Vang: Refuge, Reconciliation, and the Vietnamese Virgin Mary

3. Climbing Cholula’s Pyramid of Paradox: Inculturation and a Pilgrimage of Truth-Telling

Antonio D. Sison, CPPS, is Professor of Systematic Theology and Culture, and the Vatican II Chair of Theology at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. His previous Orbis books are The Art of Indigenous Inculturation and Deep Inculturation (as editor and contributor).

Cover design: Diane Mastrogiulio

Cover photograph: Miagao Church by Jose Ma. Lorenzo Tan, used with permission.