Background
Bevans, Stephen Bennett was born on July 14, 1944, in Baltimore. He is the son of Bert Bennett and Bernadette Bevans.
102 Jacoby Dr W, Epworth, IA 52045, USA
Stephen Bevans earned his first degree, a Bachelor of Arts, at the Divine Word College in 1967.
Piazza della Pilotta, 4, 00187 Roma RM, Italy
Later Stephen Bevans became a Licentiate in sacred theology at the Gregorian University, the year 1972.
Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA
Bevans earned a Master of Arts and a Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame in 1984 and 1986 respectively.
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(Stephen B Bevans's Models of Contextual Theology has beco...)
Stephen B Bevans's Models of Contextual Theology has become a staple in courses on theological method and as a handbook used by missioners and other Christians concerned with the Christian tradition's understanding of itself in relation to culture. First published in 1992 and now in its seventh printing in English, with translations underway into Spanish, Korean, and Indonesian, Bevans's book is a judicious examination of what the terms "contextual theology" and "to contextualize" mean. In the revised and expanded edition, Bevans adds a "counter-cultural" model to the five presented in the first edition -- the translation, the anthropological, the praxis, the synthetic, and the transcendental model. This means that readers will be introduced to the way in which figures such as Stanley Hauerwas, John Milbank, Lesslie Newbigin, "and (occasionally) Pope John Paul II" need to be taken into account. The author's revisions also incorporate suggestions made by reviewers to enhance the clarity of the original three chapters on the nature of contextual theology and the five models.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1570754381/?tag=2022091-20
1992
(The role of interfaith dialogue and comparative theology ...)
The role of interfaith dialogue and comparative theology in Christian evangelism and mission.
https://www.amazon.com/New-Directions-Missions-Evangelization-Theological/dp/0883449536/?tag=2022091-20
1994
(New Directions in Mission and Evangelization 3 contemplat...)
New Directions in Mission and Evangelization 3 contemplates the relationship between Christian faith and human culture. Representing a variety of branches from the Christian church and located in areas around the world, the contributors express their views on the question of "inculturation" in a text designed for classroom use in courses on a mission and world Christianity.
https://www.amazon.com/New-Directions-Mission-Evangelization-Culture/dp/1570752583/?tag=2022091-20
1999
(This volume summarizes Catholic approaches to mission, ev...)
This volume summarizes Catholic approaches to mission, evangelization, and religious freedom in light of the text and debates of Vatican II's documents on the subjects (Ad Gentes and Dignitatis Humanae), traces the documents' reception in the forty years since their publication. and reflects on their significance for today.
https://www.amazon.com/Evangelization-Religious-Freedom-Dignitatis-Rediscovering/dp/0809142023/?tag=2022091-20
2008
(The book offers a comprehensive guide to doing theology a...)
The book offers a comprehensive guide to doing theology as part of the Catholic ecclesial community in today's globalized world. An Introduction to Theology in Global Perspective emphasizes that theology is an activity, a process that is anchored in Scripture but interpreted by ecclesial tradition and the magisterium. This theology is rooted in the experience that divine is found in a sacramental world and community. This book also describes a systematic theology as a reflection upon the church's central teachings on creation, sin, redemption, the Trinity, anthropology, ecclesiology, salvation, and eternal life. "A remarkable achievement. In this volume, the reader benefits from scholar's mastery of theological tradition, the clarity, and insight of a brilliant teacher, the sophisticated global contextualization that comes from a lifelong commitment to Christian mission, and the humility of a committed spiritual pilgrim." - Richard R. Gaillardetz, University of Toledo.
https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Theology-Global-Perspective/dp/1570758522/?tag=2022091-20
2009
(Scholars from the United States, Latin America, and Ocean...)
Scholars from the United States, Latin America, and Oceania reflect in this volume on the importance of contextual theology for our twenty-first century. Contextual theology offers fresh voices from every culture, and not just from the West. It calls for new ways of doing theology that embrace cultural values, but at the same time challenges them to the core. And it opens up new and fresh topics out of which and about which people can theologize. If the church is to be faithful to its mission, it needs to provide a feast at which all can be nourished.
https://www.amazon.com/Contextual-Theology-Twenty-First-Century-Christianity/dp/1608999602/?tag=2022091-20
2011
(A collection of essays that demonstrates that to be effec...)
A collection of essays that demonstrates that to be effective in the twenty-first century, mission must be prophetic as it encounters other cultures and religious traditions. When we speak as mission as dialogue, then, we are about as far away from imagining mission as conquering the world for Christ and missionaries as marines of the Catholic Church as we probably can get. There has indeed been a radical shift, both in the world in which the church does mission and within the church s own consciousness of the goodness and even holiness of that world. These words from one of the essays in this superb collection clearly demonstrate the changing of mission today. In this volume, Fathers Bevans and Schroeder address a primary challenge faced by Christians missioners today: How can they bring the Christian tradition to interact respectfully and effectively with members of other cultures and traditions from around the globe and still be prophetic?
https://www.amazon.com/Prophetic-Dialogue-Reflections-Christian-Mission/dp/1570759111/?tag=2022091-20
2011
(These eleven essays originally delivered as the annual Lo...)
These eleven essays originally delivered as the annual Louis J. Luzbetak Lectures at the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago focus on the relationship between mission and culture. The authors include missiologists José M. de Mesa, Darrell L. Whiteman, Aylward Shorter, John Kirby, and Angelyn Dries, and anthropologist Linda E. Thomas, Anthony J. Gittens, and Philip Gibbs, and theologians Gemma T. Cruz and Robert J. Schreiter. Moving from Asia to Africa to North America, the essays probe the dynamics of the intersection of mission work and indigenous culture and demonstrate how essential it is for a missioner to have an in-depth understanding of the importance of culture.
https://www.amazon.com/Mission-Culture-Luzbetak-2000-2010-Missiology/dp/1570759650/?tag=2022091-20
2012
(American Society of Missiology Series #30. Traces the his...)
American Society of Missiology Series #30. Traces the history and theology of mission from the origins of Christianity to the present.
https://www.amazon.com/Constants-Context-Theology-American-Missiology-ebook/dp/B005M1ZINQ/?tag=2022091-20
2004
Bevans, Stephen Bennett was born on July 14, 1944, in Baltimore. He is the son of Bert Bennett and Bernadette Bevans.
Stephen Bevans earned his first degree, a Bachelor of Arts, at the Divine Word College in 1967. Later he became a Licentiate in sacred theology at the Gregorian University, the year 1972. Bevans earned a Master of Arts and a Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame in 1984 and 1986 respectively.
Stephen B. Bevans started his career being a Professor theology Immaculate Conception School of Theology, Vigan Ilocos Sur, Philippines, from 1972 to 1981. He worked as an educator at the Catholic Theological Union, Chicago, from 1986 to 1998, and then became a Professor of Mission & Culture since 1998. Bevans also worked as a Board Director at the Center for Parish Development, Chicago and a Director of the Center for Global Ministries, Chicago, from 1995 to 2000.
In his writings, Roman Catholic theologian and missiologist Reverend Stephen B. Bevans examines questions surrounding ecumenical mission and the meaning of mission work in modern times. Works such as Models of Contextual Theology, Dictionary of Mission: Theology, History. Perspectives and New Directions in Mission and Evangelization restructure mission in the modern world and reframe traditional theology within modern cultures. In the twentieth-century Christian theology—traditionally a bastion of conservatism speaking for the rich and privileged of the world, according to Bevans—was transformed into a vehicle for radical political and religious expression among the poor of the world, especially Third-World populations. “Many contextual theologies have emerged from the perspectives of uprooted and oppressed people," explained Ecumenical Review contributor Cyris H. Moon in his assessment of Models of Contextual Theology. “Examples include liberation theology in Latin America, black theology in the United States and Africa, minjung theology (Korea), third-eye theology (Taiwan), Dalit theology (India), people’s power theology (Philippines) Pancha Sila theology (Indonesia) and so on." According to Theological Studies contributor Carl F. Starkloff. Be van demonstrates in Models of Contextual Theology a need for a theology based on four principles: “the spirit and message of the gospel, the Christian tradition, the culture of the theologian, and social change in that culture."
Bevans continues to examine the relationship between mission and evangelization in his editorship of New Directions in Mission and Evangelization. The theologian and his co-editor, James A. Scherer, “have brought together some of the best writing on inculturation/contextualization that has appeared in the 1990s," stated Lawrence Nemer in the International Bulletin of Missionary Research. The three-volume work focuses on the question of how to reconcile cultural differences in Christian belief and practice with the universalism stressed in the Roman Catholic church. Similarly. Bevans’s agenda in the Dictionary of Mission demonstrates a concern with a revised definition of mission—one that is not driven by Western cultural imperatives. This new definition, wrote contributor William J. Nottingham c1 in the International Review of Mission, “reflects what Christian mission has become: a genuinely worldwide and ecumenical phenomenon,” bringing Catholic and Protestant theologians together “in the spirit of Vatican II.”
At the same time, however, Bevans bucks trends in modern theology that complain that contextual theology undermines the true calling of the Catholic Church. F. Dale Bruner, writing in the International Bulletin of Missionary Research, quoted Pope John Paul II in the papal letter Redemptoris mission as saying, “It is not right to give an incomplete picture of missionary activity, as if it consisted principally in helping the poor, contribution to the liberation of the oppressed, promoting development or defending human rights. The missionary Church is certainly involved on these fronts but her primary task lies elsewhere: the poor are hungry for God, not just for bread and freedom. Missionary activity must first of all bear witness to and proclaim salvation in Christ." In Bevans's work, the theologian strives to create an ecumenical theology that provides dignity to all peoples and their diverse cultures while honoring the need to follow the teachings of Jesus.
(This volume summarizes Catholic approaches to mission, ev...)
2008(Stephen B Bevans's Models of Contextual Theology has beco...)
1992(A collection of essays that demonstrates that to be effec...)
2011(Scholars from the United States, Latin America, and Ocean...)
2011(The book offers a comprehensive guide to doing theology a...)
2009(New Directions in Mission and Evangelization 3 contemplat...)
1999(The role of interfaith dialogue and comparative theology ...)
1994(These eleven essays originally delivered as the annual Lo...)
2012(American Society of Missiology Series #30. Traces the his...)
2004Bevans bucks trends in modern theology that complain that contextual theology undermines the true calling of the Catholic Church.
In his writings, Roman Catholic theologian and missiologist Reverend Stephen B. Bevans examines questions surrounding ecumenical mission and the meaning of mission work in modern times. In Bevans's works, the theologian strives to create an ecumenical theology that provides dignity to all peoples and their diverse cultures while honoring the need to follow the teachings of Jesus.
Missionary Movement , United States
1996 - 2002
Saint Mary of the Woods College , United States
Center for Mission Study and Research , United States
Catholic Theological Society of America , United States
American Society Missiology , United States
World Council of Churches
International Association Mission Studies