ABSTRACT
This chapter describes one particular Contextual Bible Study project that began, while waited for an invitation, in the 1990s and has extended to the present period of steady community-based invitations. There are various ways of describing the Contextual Bible Study praxis, the chapter focus on a series of interconnected movements that shape the collaborative reading process. Contextual Bible Study begins and ends under the control of a particular local community, who use the resources of the Contextual Bible Study, along with a range of other resources, to plan for and implement community-based action. The engagement with the Bible begins with a community's thematic appropriation of the biblical text being used, allowing every participant to share their particular understanding of the text. The context in South Africa had shifted and there was considerable space to construct a Contextual Bible Study that was about homosexuality. The chapter focuses on the hermeneutical dimensions of Contextual Bible Study's formation and its general effect.
