Contextual Scottish Theology July 15, 2007

A post dedicated to Brandon and Cheryl Crowe, Scottish royalty.

Alan Torrance, in the second footnote to his chapter “Being of One Substance with the Father” in the volume edited by Christopher Seitz entitled Nicene Christianity: The Future for a New Ecumenism, writes,

“The ‘Programme for Theology and Cultures in Asia’ exemplifies the view that ‘indigenous theology’ is best carried out by considering the spirituality immanent in the symbols of a particular culture.  If the symbols of Scottish culture are taken to be its indigenous, national drink (whisky), its national recipe (the haggis), and its famously indigenous musical instrument (the bagpipes), this would seem to suggest that indigenous Scottish theology should be characterized by spirit, guts…and large quantities of wind!”