Doing Theology as If People Mattered: Encounters in Contextual Theology

This book narrates a reflexive account of the "doing" of contextual theology at the Jesuit School of Theology (JST) of Santa Clara University. The collection explores practicing contextual theology in the classroom and beyond, in service, international immersions, interreligious dialogue, and mission. This collection narrates the story of contextual theology at JST: how the School came to select this theological method and how it guides the vision and mission of the School; how contextual theology shapes pedagogy and work in the classroom; how contextual theology and education flourish in ministerial praxis in the local intercultural San Francisco Bay Area; and more.

Deborah Ross is Lecturer and Director of Ministerial Formation at the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University in Berkeley, California. She received a Ph.D. in Theology from Heythrop College, University of London. Eduardo Fernández publishes, gives workshops and retreats, and assists at local parishes. He earned a Masters in Latin American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin and a doctorate in missiology at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.