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Young, Woke and Christian brings together young church leaders and theologians who argue that the church needs to become increasingly awake to injustices in British society.

Editorial 7 Part One: General Approaches to Asian Theology Asian Christian Theologies: Present Tasks and Future Orientations 11 PETER C. PHAN Theologies in Asia and Asian Theologies. A Radical Paradigm Shift of Doing Theologies from Contexts 22 HUANG PO HO Asian Theology and the Particularity of Christianity 33 CATHERINE CORNILLE Part 2. Inculturation of Christianity in Particular Asian Contexts Paying Attention to Indian Tantric Buddhism 47 THIERRY-MARIE COURAU A Metaphysical Approach to Theology in Taiwan: Dialogues between Catholicism and Daoist Teachings of Laozi and Zhuangzi 58 KATIA LENEHAN Productive Imagination in the Story Theology of Choan-Seng Song 67 YA-TANG CHUANG Asian Liberation Theologies in Times of Populism 76 DANIEL F. PILARIO Vietnamese Theology in the Making 87 TRAN VAN DOAN Biblical Interpretation in India from Subaltern Perspectives 96 ANTONY JOHN BAPTIST Part 3. Asian Questions and Approaches to Christian Ethics Catholic Theological Ethics in Asia: From Conflict to Conversation 107 MARIA JOHN P. SELVAMANI Women Decolonizing Theologies of, for and by Southeast Asians 117 SHARON A. BONG Part 4. Theological forum Catholicity as a Principle for a Dissenting Church 129 WILIBALDUS GAUT Johann Baptist Metz (1926-2019). A Personal and Critical Tribute 135 ERIK BORGMAN

Editorial 7 Part One: The Global Issue Amazonia 4.0: An Innovative Socio-Bio-Economy 14 for a Standing Forest CARLOS A. NOBRE, ISMAEL NOBRE, MARITTA KOCH-WESER The Ecological Crisis and Tropical Forest Ecosystems: 24 Cases from Africa, Asia, and Melanesia NICOLE BERNEX Extractivism: A Perspective of Social Ethics 36 GERHARD KRUIP Part Two: Analysis of the Issue The Politics of Forest Conservation: Ethical Dilemmas 49 and Impact on Peacebuilding LÉOCADIE LUSHOMBO Amazonia Gift: to Right the Wrongs 61 CEDRIC PRAKASH Supporting Indigenous Peoples to Defend Amazonia 73 BIRGIT WEILER Part Three: Reflection on the Issue A New Look at Creation Theology from Amazonia 85 FERNANDO ROCA ALCÁZAR Gift and Task: From Differentiation to Solidarity 95 CRISTINO ROBLES PINE Ecclesial Unity and Diversity from the Amazon Synod 105 VÍCTOR CODINA Part Four: Response to the Issue Incarnation, Territoriality, and New Pastoral Paths: 119 the Itinerary of REPAM and the Amazon Synod MAURICIO LÓPEZ OROPEZAR Social and Environmental Pastoral Theology in the Church 130 in Africa: the Case of the Congo Basin Ecclesial Network RIGOBERT MINANI BIHUZO Theological Forum Canonical Observations on the Instruction 143 The Pastoral Conversion of the Parish Community MARTIN REHAK A Contextual Reading of the Instruction 148 The Pastoral Conversion of the Parish Community in the Service of the Evangelizing Mission of the Church CAROLINA BACHER MARTÍNEZ

What are the ecclesiological challenges and opportunities raised by technology? How have developments related to the COVID-19 global health crisis impacted churches, forcing a swift move to mediated and online worship? And how will this change the shape churches of theological and programmatic choices for years to come? Drawing together a diverse group of theologians and media scholars, this volume considers the key theological question churches and religious leaders need to engage with as they look towards long term strategies involving church life and technology.

How can contemporary art reimagine the body of the mother in relation to a feminist Christian conception of the divine? And, at the level of culture, what might be the implications of the maternal body imaged as ordinary, multiple, generative and divine? Following movements in her own visual art practice, and traversing the discourses of feminist theory, contemporary art and philosophy of religion, artist and scholar Rebekah Pryor considers philosopher Luce Irigaray's key notions of sexuate difference, the sensible transcendental and "love at work in thinking" on the way to proposing alternate artistic and theological motifs of the maternal body and the divine for our time. Five new motifs emerge, challenging iconographic conventions and proposing an expanded vision of the mother and the divine in feminist theology and contemporary art.

Drawing from real-life pastoral examples, socio-political analysis, and the theme of Eucharist as a means to human healing and restoration, A Redemption Song outlines and explores what a black British pastoral theology might look like. A landmark text, it offers critical reflection and practical tool for those working and ministering within multicultural communities, especially those with large African-Caribbean populations.

Drawing deeply on his experience of the Wiltshire landscape, Andrew Rumsey in his new book - English Grounds - presents a series of personal essays that explore deep questions around church, place, nature, heritage and Englishness.

What is church? What spaces does church occupy? Can ecclesial space exist beyond the boundaries of church? In An Interweaving Ecclesiology Mark Scanlan offers a fresh vision of Christian community as constructed for and by participants as potential ecclesial spaces combine to create an experience which we call "church". Drawing in particular on research into the dynamic between youth groups and the churches within which they operate, Scanlan brings us a distinct approach to the church in mission that can nuance and develop the tired and sometimes flawed thinking around Fresh Expressions and pioneer ministry. Combining deep ecclesiology with a practical approach, this book will be useful to students and scholars of pioneer and youth ministry and those with a wider interest in how churches operate.

If the church is ever tempted to think that it has its theology of grace sorted, it need only look at its reception of queer black bodies and it will see a very different story. In this honest, timely and provocative book, Jarel Robinson-Brown argues that there is deeper work to be done if the body of Christ is going to fully accept the bodies of those who are black and gay. A vital call to the Church and the world that Black, Queer, Christian lives matter, this book seeks to remind the Church of those who find themselves beyond its fellowship yet who directly suffer from the perpetual ecclesial terrorism of the Christian community through its speech and its silence.

This title provides a basic introduction to a variety of models of theological reflection and identifies their strengths and weaknesses, providing historical and contemporary examples of these models. It reflects the diversity of church and global traditions and the various approaches to theological reflection, and more.