The New Catholicity Religion_ Christian Ministry and was professor of Old

and was professor of Old Testament at St Peter’s Pontifical Institute in Bangalore

Bediako was the primary architect of and inspiration for theological work that grappled with the realities of African culture

his many years of productive pastoral work in Tanzania

of religion and its liberative elements

is Professor of Old Testament Studies at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago

The New Catholicity Religion_ Christian Ministry and was professor of Old"Strongly recommended." Religious Studies Review In the 1970s and 1980s new theologies, called liberation, and local or contextual theologies, erupted where the Enlightenment theologies of Europe and North America failed to respond to peoples needs. Now, globalization sweeps over the world with technologies that compress time and space, where cultures homogenize even as new particularisms arise. Following on his widely acclaimed Constructing Local