“The experience [an Indian man finding a God of justice & love through the OT scriptures] taught me again the living quality of God’s word that it speaks uniquely in each human context. We need, therefore, to be prepared to accept that things we find relatively unimportant may speak very powerfully in another culture, and that things we find puzzling or repulsive may make great sense and even be attractive in other cultures. It calls for humility, though it can cause some hermeneutical vertigo, to relativize our own favourite viewpoints on familiar texts and listen to how those of other cultures respond to them. We live in a world-wide church, and the task of biblical exegesis and interpretation belongs to the whole church under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. So we must avoid hitching all our interpretation to a mono-cultural waggon. When did you last read, learn from, disagree with, or be surprised by, a book of theology or biblical scholarship by a non-western author?”
Chris Wright “I never knew such a God existed”, Themelios vol.17 no.2, 1992,3.
