Contextualizing theology is attractive, since it means responding very directly to our subjectivity and our culture. In such an important conversation, how can we avoid relativization? Or is relativization a basically sound and healthy approach to reading and thinking about theology and God?
In contextual theology, it is almost impossible to avoid relativization. The mere reason being that as human beings, we are programmed to be slightly selfish, something that counts as a weakness at certain points and strength at others. In so being, if we find something irrelevant to our lives, or believe that something is irrelevant to our lives, we tend to disregard it and move on.
This applies to the conversation on contextual theology because if one is not able to relate to, or explain the stories in the Bible to fit into one's life, then the religion partially serves no purpose, because it exists to help us. Not being able to relate to something that is supposed to help someone does not......
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