Christian theology and scholarship will continue to remain provincial as long as some major challenges continue unaddressed. These include the following: the West’s “hegemony postulate” (Frostin 1985), the West’s self-percetion that it is “the center,” the perception of third world scholars as “purveyors of exotic, raw intellectual material to people in the North” (Kalilombe 1998, 19), and the “dialogue of the deaf” (Mazrui 1990) between the West and the rest of the world.¹

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1. Tite Tiénou, “Christian Theology in an Era of World Christianity,” in Globalizing Theology: Belief and Practice in an Era of World Christianity, ed. Craig Ott and Harold A. Netland (Grand Rapids: BakerAcademic, 2007), 46.[Back]