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From heaven to earth: A historical study of the development of Dr. Shoki Coe's "contextualization theology" through his life and work from the perspective of identity before the 1980s.

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Title/Author:	From heaven to earth: A historical study of the development of Dr. Shoki Coe's "contextualization theology" through his life and work from the perspective of identity before the 1980s./
Author:	Wang, Pin-Chin.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2016,
Description:	322 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 78-08, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International78-08A.
Subject:	Religious history. -
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ISBN:	9781369472691

From heaven to earth: A historical study of the development of Dr. Shoki Coe's "contextualization theology" through his life and work from the perspective of identity before the 1980s.
Wang, Pin-Chin.

From heaven to earth: A historical study of the development of Dr. Shoki Coe's "contextualization theology" through his life and work from the perspective of identity before the 1980s. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2016 - 322 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 78-08, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Claremont Graduate University, 2016.

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Dr. Shoki Coe was the director of Theological Education Fund of World Council of Churches. He coined the term, contextualization Theology in early 1970s, which had a great influence in the fields of missions and theology. Near the end of his life, in 1987, Dr. Shoki Coe reflected in his memoir on his deep political involvement, "I have pondered this again and again, but always come to the same simple conclusion: I am involved because I am a Taiwanese, and because I am a Christian." He claimed that his political involvement was another example of contextualization. It appears that contextualization theology to Coe was not only the pinnacle of his theological thought, but also a personal lifetime struggle between his ethnic and religious identities. Dr. Shoki Coe was born in 1914 when Taiwan was under Japanese rule. He graduated from Imperial Tokyo University, and studied theology at Westminster College in Great Britain. He worked in Great Brain for six years and married an Englishwoman. He returned with his family to Taiwan in 1947, and worked in Taiwan until 1965. Coe was a third-generation Taiwanese Presbyterian, and a prominent Presbyterian leader. From 1949-1965, he was the Principal of Tainan Theological College. He became an associate director of the Theological Education Fund (TEF) of World Council of Churches (WCC) in 1966, and then became its director in 1971 until TEF was terminated in 1977. In 1972, Coe coined "contextualization" as the focal point of the Third Mandate of the TEF. Coe believed that contextualization was a means to renew and reform theological education in the Third World. He became internationally recognized in the field of Theological education. In 1973, Coe joined with three other Taiwanese Christian leaders to initiate the Formosan Christians for Self-Determination movement overseas to echo and support the values and efforts of the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan. He remained politically active until he passed away in 1988. As a historical study, I will arrange materials chronologically in three periods, according to the roles that Shoki Coe played in different periods in his life. In each period, I will first describe the socio-political backdrop, and then move on to the life and work of Coe. Finally, I will delineate Coe's thought as a Christian and a Taiwanese, explore the way in which his two identities interacted with each other, and draw a correlation with Coe's theology of contextualization. Through this historical study, I will show that the development of Dr. Shoki Coe's contextualization theology is closely related to his life and work, which can be approached from his constant grappling with his self-identities. The dialectic of text and context lay at the center of his thinking about theology, missiology, and multiple self-identities. When contextualization was chosen to be the focus of the Third Mandate of TEF, contextualization at the same time also became the best term to describe the dialectic of Coe's Taiwanese and Christian identities. His active political involvement in the FCSD Movement can, therefore, be best interpreted as the embodiment of his contextualization theology. Contextualization theology is therefore, on the one hand, the pinnacle of Dr. Shoki Coe's theological thoughts, signifying his long-term participation in missions and theological education in the Third World, but also, on the other hand, the result of his continuous struggle with the meaning of being a third-generation Christian minister and a Taiwanese in some very different socio-political contexts. The development of Coe's contextualization theology is therefore more than an academic quest, but indeed closely related to his lifelong quest for an integrated self-understanding of his ethnic and religious identities.

ISBN: 9781369472691Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Religious history.
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Coe, Shoki

From heaven to earth: A historical study of the development of Dr. Shoki Coe's "contextualization theology" through his life and work from the perspective of identity before the 1980s.
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