Book Panel: The Many Faces of Jesus Christ. Intercultural Christology

The session wants to introduce the merits and possibilities of intercultural theology with a book panel on the new revised edition of Volker Küster, The Many Faces of Jesus Christ. Intercultural Christology, Maryknoll, NY: Orbis books 2023. Since its release in 2001 the book has been used as a textbook in theological classrooms around the Globe, in the western Anglo-Saxon world as well as the Global South. Different from US borne comparative theology or world Christianity, intercultural theology is nourished from two streams: The discovery of “the other” in postwar European continental missiology that led to a “hermeneutical turn” and the formation of the Ecumenical Association of Third World Theologians (EATWOT). The book panel will bring together polyphone voices to respond to Küster’s work.