Coming Full Circle: Constructing Native Christian Theology

by Elaine A. Robinson, Steven Charleston (Translator)

Overview

Coming Full Circle, a unique, multicollaborative project, provides a working constructive Native Christian theology. Drawing together leading scholars in the field, along with elders and practitioners, this volume seeks to fill a significant lacuna in the area and to encourage young Native American scholars and non-Native theologians to reconsider the rich possibilities present in the intersection between Native theory and practice and Christian theology and practice. This innovative work begins with a Native American theory for doing constructive Christian theology and then illustrates the possibilities with chapters on specific Christian doctrines. With significant essays on key doctrinal loci such as sin, revelation and epistemology, prayer and worship, mission and ministry, reconciliation and restoration, and the new creation, this volume will make an important contribution representing the Native American voice in a constructive and contemporary vein. Although not a full-scale systematic dogmatics, this theology in outline offers the theory and constructive initiative to encourage further explorations in Native American Christian theologies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781451487985
Publisher:	Augsburg Fortress, Publishers
Publication date:	07/14/2015
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	236
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.90(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Elaine A. Robinson teaches theology, leadership, and denominational studies at Saint Paul School of Theology and serves as co-pastor of The Village, a multiethnic congregation in Oklahoma City. She is the author or coeditor of several books addressing contemporary concerns for people of faith.

Steven Charleston is a leading voice of justice for Indigenous peoples, the environment, and spiritual renewal. A member of the Choctaw Nation, Charleston has appeared on ABC World News Tonight, BBC World News, and other outlets. The author of more than a dozen books on theology and spirituality, including Ladder to the Light, Charleston has served as the Episcopal bishop of Alaska, president and dean of the Episcopal Divinity School, and professor of systematic theology at Luther Seminary. He serves as the theologian in residence at Berkeley Divinity School at Yale University. Charleston lives with his wife, Susan, in Oklahoma.

Table of Contents

Preface vii

Contributors xiii

1 Theory-Articulating a Native American Theological Theory Steven Charleston 1

2 Revelation and Epistemology-We Know the Land, the Land Knows Us: Places of Revelation, Place as Revelation Jace Weaver 27

3 Restoration and Reconciliation-Restoring Truth in a Time of Repentance Thom White Wolf Fassett 55

4 Heaven and Hell-Heaven (Ga lv la di tso sv) and Hell (Tsv s gi no)'. A Cherokee Mother and Bishop's Perspective Carol J. Gallagher 75

5 Creation-The New Creation: A Maskoke Postcolonial Perspective Marcus Briggs-Cloud 89

6 Sin-Ambiguity and Complexity and the Sin of Not Conforming Lisa A. Dellinger 119

7 Church-Wocekiye Okolakiciye: A Lakota Experience of the Church Martin Brokenleg 133

8 Worship and Prayer-Living Prayer, Living Worship Chebon Kernell 151

9 Mission and Ministry-Church and Culture: A Difficult Beginning David Wilson 167

10 Theological Anthropology-On Being Human: An Interview with Ada Deer Ada Deer Steven Charleston 187

For Further Reading 215

Index 217