ABSTRACT

Theology claims to seek to articulate a direct response in faith to the grace of God, though the invitation and the response are always indirect, always in, with and under human culture and religion. Intercultural theology has a unique and distinctive role to play in helping to build the human future, but in order to be effective it has to be entirely frank about its own limitation. This chapter concentrates on the cultural dialogues between different disciplines and sub-cultures within a mainly Christian environment, rather than on the intercultural theology of world religions. It suggests that generosity may be understood in a wider framework than economic generosity. The Christomorphic paradigm is sharply relevant to all discussion of ethics, religion and politics. The divine mystery has been centrally characterized in Christianity by the image of the Trinity. Christomorphic trace enables those who recognize it to cope with the created order and see it as not totally inconsistent with the divine love.