I just read today a comment on a Facebook post by David Fitch (professor at Northern Seminary and author whose books Logos carries):
"Cultural context (read- cultural hermeneutic) is unavoidable and proper for exegesis. The assumption that white, western, male, protestant interpretation is the exegesis that should be approved globally is both racist and full of hubris. 'Beyond Foundationalism' by Grenz and Franke is probably the best discourse on this. You can't remove cultural hermeneutic...and biblical consensus for 'doctrine' is again a pointless assumption of western theologians. It's the big problem of the protestant reformation is its dependance (sic) on the power assumptions of western colonialism."
To which Fitch responded: "BOOM!@!@!!"
I have been wanting to read this book ever since I got to know John Franke while he was taking a sabbatical at Regent College to write that book with Stanley Grenz and was in my community group. I'm sure I bought it in dead tree format at some point, but I have no idea where it is if so, and I so so so want it in digital format. It's not available as a Kindle book.
It's published by Westminster John Knox Press, which is a publisher Logos does business with, so it should be a high priority to try to get rights for.
PLEASE VOTE FOR IT HERE:
From Amazon: "The authors move past the Enlightenment foundational approach to offer a revolutionary methodology for doing theology in a postmodern age. Their method uses three sources: the Spirit speaking authoritatively through the biblical text, tradition providing a historical interpretive framework; and culture as context for constructive theological reflection."
