Contrapuntal Readings of the Bible in World Christianity

Series Editors: K. K. Yeo and Melanie Baffes

Just as God knows no boundaries and incarnation happens in shared space, truth does not respect borders and its expression in various contexts is kaleidoscopic. As God’s church is birthed forth from local cultures, it is called into a catholic community—namely world Christianity. This series values the twofold identity of biblical interpretations that seek to engage in contextual theology and, at the same time, become part of a global and “many-voiced” conversation for the sake of mutual understanding. By promoting contrapuntal readings that hold contextual and global biblical hermeneutics in tension, this series celebrates interpretations in three movements: (1) those based on the biblical text that honor multiple and interacting worldviews (reading the world biblically/theologically); (2) those that work at the translatability of the biblical text to uphold various dynamic vernaculars and faithful hermeneutics for the world (reading the Bible/theology contextually); and (3) those that respect the cross-cultural and shifting contexts in which faithful communities are embedded, and embody, real-life issues.

International Advisory Board

Walter Brueggemann, William Marcellus McPheeters Professor Emeritus of Old Testament, Columbia Theological Seminary (US)

Adela Yarbro Collins, Buckingham Professor Emerita of New Testament Criticism and Interpretation, Yale Divinity School (US)

Kathy Ehrensperger, Research Professor of New Testament to Jewish Perspective, University of Potsdam (Germany)

Justo L. González, Emeritus Professor of Historical Theology, Candler School of Theology, Emory University (US)

Richard A. Horsley, Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and the Study of Religion, University of Massachusetts (US)

Brigitte Kahl, Professor New Testament, Union Theological Seminary (US)

Tremper Longman III, Robert H. Gundry Professor of Biblical Studies, Westmont College (US)

Robert Jewett, Emeritus Professor of New Testament, Heidelberg University (Germany)

Peter Lampe, Professor of New Testament Theology, Heidelberg University (Germany)

Daniel Patte, Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies, Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity, Vanderbilt University (US)