ALO docView - Towards a Communicative Theology (2005)

JPJRS 8/1 ISSN 0972-3331, Jan 2005 108-126

Towards a Communicative

Theology

Matthias Scharer and Teresa Peter

Dept Practical Theology, University of Innbsruck

Abstract:

The following article is made up of two parts. In the first part Teresa

Peter works on the comparison between the Indian approach of

"Cross-Cultural Theology as Encounter", as developed by Francis

D'Sa, using the approach of the "Communicative Theology". The

second part by Matthias Scharer gives an introduction to the main

elements of the "Communicative Theology". Communicative-theo¬

logical processes are found at the interface of theological research

on the one hand and of the practice of faith and religion on the other

hand. This practice provokes a theological reflection again in return

and this reflection is nourished by the actual practices and experi¬

ences. In the field of this interplay of theological reflection and

communicative practice of faith and religion the perspective of a

hermeneutics of difference can be considered as a productive

challenge for an intercultural and interreligious dialogue, which gives

special theological attention also to conflictive encounter-experi¬

ences.

Keywords:

Communicative-theology, practical theology, conflict-resolution,

cross-cultural theology, encounter, transformation, communicatio

communion.

The following article on Communicative Theology is made up

of two parts, one written by Matthias Scharer, the other by Teresa

Peter. In the first part Teresa Peter works on the comparison

between the Indian approach of "Cross-Cultural Theology as

Encounter", as it has been developed by Francis D'Sa, and the

approach of the "Communicative Theology". The second part by

Matthias Scharer gives an introduction to the main elements of

the "Communicative Theology".

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